{"id":217302,"date":"2025-10-16T12:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/217302\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:50:09","slug":"swifties-flock-to-friedrich-heysers-ophelia-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/217302\/","title":{"rendered":"Swifties Flock to Friedrich Heyser’s ‘Ophelia’ in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSome of Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2018s most loyal fans have descended upon the art world in droves to catch a glimpse at a painting she references in her new music video<\/a> for the song \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d, which was released on her most recent album The Life of a Showgirl.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile there was initially more attention paid to the better-known John Everett Millais painting<\/a> Ophelia (1851\u201352) in London\u2019s Tate collection, the singer highlights a different iteration of the famed tale directly at the beginning of her music video.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the opening scene, viewers can see Swift as Ophelia in a framed painting that more closely resembles Art Nouveau painter Friedrich Heyser<\/a>\u2018s Ophelia (ca. 1900), which hangs in the Wiesbaden State Museum<\/a> in Germany. Her white dress, pose, and the background all mimic the original. As a result, the museum saw hundreds of additional visitors last weekend. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re surprised and happy that Taylor Swift chose this painting from the Museum Wiesbaden as a model for her video,\u201d museum director Andreas Henning told Monopol<\/a>. \u201cThis is, of course, a great opportunity to introduce people to the museum who don\u2019t yet know us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIt is unclear why Swift chose this specific version over other depictions. The video is filled with a number of other references throughout, including an end shot that recalls the album cover that previously drew comparisons with the Millais painting.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d track refers to the character who meets a tragic end in William Shakespeare\u2019s play\u00a0Hamlet. In the play, Hamlet accidentally kills Ophelia\u2019s father, causing her to break up with her lover. She becomes so consumed by grief that she ultimately drowns herself. For her part, Swift has attempted to reclaim that narrative in this song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of Taylor Swift\u2018s most loyal fans have descended upon the art world in droves to catch a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75,104942,7223,104943],"class_list":{"0":"post-217302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-friedrich-heyser","16":"tag-taylor-swift","17":"tag-wiesbaden-state-museum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}