Paintings can reflect the painter's heart, writings can portray the author's mood, and similarly, architecture can display the spirit of its designer.
The seemingly grand Lindehoff Palace faithfully reproduces Ludwig II's refusal to face reality and his decadent spirit when relying on the classics and mythology, without power to confront the present.
——In the architecture designed by this Bavarian King, such expressions and demands abound.
A man who fervently adored opera and myth yet existed in reality;
A child king who lived in his fantasies and refused to grow up;
A German duke who worshipped and celebrated the French royal family;
A political fool who, to build his castle, was willing to accept bribes from Bismarck and wrote persuasions to seat the Prussian King on the throne of the German Emperor;
A person suffering from severe communication barriers and phobias, a true otaku of the middle school era;
