{"id":2130637,"date":"2025-11-02T16:40:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T16:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2130637"},"modified":"2025-11-02T16:40:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T16:40:04","slug":"hundreds-of-swifties-flock-to-german-museum-to-see-ophelia-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/hundreds-of-swifties-flock-to-german-museum-to-see-ophelia-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Swifties flock to German museum to see &#8216;Ophelia&#8217; painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Some 200 Swifties attended a special event at a German museum on Sunday to catch a glimpse of an Art Nouveau painting that possibly inspired &#8220;The Fate of Ophelia&#8221; &#8211; the opening track of US superstar Taylor Swift&#8217;s latest album.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Following the release of &#8220;The Life of a Showgirl&#8221; last month, the Wiesbaden Museum has experienced a surge in Swift fans wanting to view the painting of &#8220;Ophelia&#8221; exhibited there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the opening scene of the video for &#8220;The Fate of Ophelia,&#8221; Swift takes on the role of Ophelia and becomes a living painting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the museum, it is not officially known which motif served as the template for the video. However, a direct comparison shows a great similarity to the work of Art Nouveau and Symbolist painter Friedrich Heyser (1857-1921) from the Wiesbaden collection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tickets for the special guided tour on Sunday sold out within a few hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The visitors, mostly young women, were given a presentation on the history of the painting, dated to around 1900, with a museum employee explaining the links between Shakespeare&#8217;s character Ophelia in &#8220;Hamlet,&#8221; the artwork and Swift&#8217;s music video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The painting depicts a young noblewoman who descends into madness and drowns after being driven to despair after being spurned by Hamlet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Many of the fans were dressed up as Swift or Ophelia, with the museum having promised free admission to anyone in a costume.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Swifties and museum employees also implored Swift to check out the painting herself, chanting: &#8220;Taylor, come to Wiesbaden!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Swift\u2019s 12th studio album has received less favourable reviews than many of her previous releases, but it still broke the US record for first-week sales, moving just over 4 million copies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 200 Swifties attended a special event at a German museum on Sunday to catch a glimpse of an Art Nouveau painting that possibly inspired &#8220;The Fate of Ophelia&#8221; &#8211; the opening track of US superstar Taylor Swift&#8217;s latest album. 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