How Deep Is Your Love? (on the world’s greatest work of fan art) Lapham’s Quarterly, Fall 2017 Music Issue “Neuschwanstein, the unfinished masterpiece of Ludwig II, king of Bavaria from 1864 to 1886, was a thoroughly modern project, belonging not to medieval history but to neomedieval fairy-tale fantasy, and was built to serve a modern purpose: to manifest, relieve, and exalt Ludwig’s obsession with the works of the composer Richard Wagner. The king was perhaps the world’s greatest opera fan; his Neuschwanstein remains perhaps the world’s greatest work of fan art.” Image: Library of Congress Back to Essays & Stories Advertisements
