{"id":2096123,"date":"2025-10-16T20:12:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2096123"},"modified":"2025-10-16T20:12:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:12:30","slug":"taylor-swift-fans-flock-to-hessische-landesmuseum-in-germany-after-the-release-of-the-life-of-a-showgirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/taylor-swift-fans-flock-to-hessische-landesmuseum-in-germany-after-the-release-of-the-life-of-a-showgirl\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Fans Flock to Hessische Landesmuseum in Germany After the Release of ‘The Life of a Showgirl’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Is overtourism coming for this German museum next? That remains to be seen, but the Swifties are already on the way after a painting featured in Taylor Swift\u2019s latest music video drew a surge of visitors to a lesser-known art museum over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of fans have reportedly traveled to the Hessische Landesmuseum<\/a> in central Germany to see Friedrich Heyser\u2019s \u201cOphelia,\u201d painted at the turn of the 20th century. Per the Associated Press<\/a>, one family made the trip from Hamburg\u2014a five-hour drive\u2014just to view the painting, museum spokesperson Susanne Hirschmann told German news outlets on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Friedrich Heyser\u2019s Ophelia<\/em>, c. 1900.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

The oil canvas appears to have inspired the opening scene of the singer\u2019s new music video for \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia,\u201d<\/a> the first track on her new album, The Life of a Showgirl<\/em><\/a>. In the opening shot, Swift poses as Ophelia in a scene that mirrors the painting\u2019s composition, from the flowing white gown to the Art Nouveau setting.<\/p>\n

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Taylor Swift as Ophelia in the music video.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

There are multiple sculptures<\/a> and artworks around the world dedicated to and inspired by the fictional character of Ophelia, the most famous of which is arguably the John Everett Millais masterpiece in the Tate in London<\/a>, completed in 1852.<\/p>\n

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The song references the tragic Shakespearean character from Hamlet<\/em>. In the play, the titular character accidentally kills her father, Polonius. Consumed with grief, she later drowns herself. In Swift\u2019s song, her lyrics reference the story with a different ending. Singing to a lover that she \u201cmight\u2019ve drowned in the melancholy,\u201d she thanks them for showing up, telling them that they \u201csaved [her] heart from the fate of Ophelia.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d is currently the No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a> as well as on Apple Music for the U.S. Top 100, Global Top 100, and German Top 100.<\/p>\n

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