Helene Sedlmayr

There, she became a runner (maid) in the toy store of the merchant Auracher on Brienner Straße.

As such, she also delivered toys for the royal children to the Bavarian court and caught the eye of King Ludwig I because of her beauty.

She was portrayed by the court painter Joseph Karl Stieler in the Altmünchner Gwand around 1830 for the king's gallery of beauties and was considered the epitome of the beautiful Munich woman.

On April 14, 1834, she married King Ludwig's valet Hermes Miller [2] (1804–1871) in the Frauenkirche in Munich and became the mother of ten children: nine sons and one daughter.

Their descendants, the Miller family, still live in Berchtesgaden today.

Portrait of 17-year-old Helene Sedlmayr in Old Munich costume and cap by court painter Joseph Karl Stieler , c. 1830, for the Gallery of Beauties
Helene's grave in Munich's Alter Südfriedhof , burial field 38, row 3, grave 25; the inscription commemorates her celebrated beauty: "King Ludwig I commissioned the youthful portrait of Helene Sedlmayr from his court painter Joseph Karl Stieler for the Gallery of Beauties ."