About this motif
The Marian Column was erected in 1638 in thanks for Munich having been spared destruction in the Thirty Years' War. A gilded Madonna stands on top of the column.
König's miniature places the slender column with its golden Madonna at the centre; a deciduous tree sways on the left, with pale town houses and the two caps of the Frauenkirche behind. A tiny sheet of just five by five centimetres, plain, coloured or framed.
