2004.07.03
Artifact of Ottopia No. 15
Stephen Lauf
No Doubt The Artist Suffered As Well
1992.03.19
2004.07.03
Artifact of Ottopia No. 16
Life Magazine pages 8-9
Vatican Art Restorers Working Maticulously
1972.12.01
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2004.07.03
Artifact of Ottopia No. 17
Raquel Welsh
Raquel Welsh Signature on Life Magazine Cover
1972.06.02
coincidental images inside the magazine:
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2004.07.03
Artifact of Ottopia No. 18
Life Magazine
Neuschwanstein Castle Perched Atop a Bavarian Hill
1963.08.12
Later relatives of Ludwig and Otto inside the magazine:
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2004.07.03
Artifact of Ottopia No. 19
Hans Steinberger
The Royal Bavarian Castles
1907
2004.07.03
Artifact of Ottopia No. 20
H. Desing
King Ludwig II: His Life - His End
1976
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2004.07.04 11:42
"Like Bush and the weapons."
Yesterday, I took three Artifacts of Ottopia to my mother for her perusal--No. 18, No. 19, No. 20--respectively. The first because we as a family indeed vacationed in Europe in Summer 1963. The second because it contains a 1913 aerial view of Munich's Zoological Gardens--Harlaching, the community on the plateau overlooking the Zoo, and where my mother lived and worked [as cook for the Baron von Ow household] in the early 1940s, is also in the aerial view. And the third because of the following paragraph contained therein:
"During the 193rd plenary meeting of the delegates of the Bavarian Parliament on June 26, 1886, Baron von Ow stated, apart from the usual attacks on the King's mental condition, that Ludwig II had ordered a Bastille--a state prison--to be constructed in Neuschwanstein, and that it had been built. According to statements of the servants who had also been witnesses to the medical commission, high-ranking personalities, including the Crown Prince of Prussia, were to be taken into custody there by orders of the King. Even today, it can be proven that these claims were lies, for during the entire project of Neuschwanstein, the construction of a prison was neither planned, nor was such a plan ever realized."
"So, the Baron was against the King?"
"Yes, but so were most of the government officials, even Ludwig's uncle, who then became Regent. There was no prison ever built at Neuschwanstein."
"Like Bush and the weapons [of mass destruction]."
[laughs]
"Mom, you understand completely."
2004.07.03
Artifact of Ottopia No. 21
Theodor Hierneis
The Monarch Dines
1954
from page 73:
I only knew Fürstenried after King Ludwig's death. The Lord Chamberlain, Baron von Redwitz, had approached me to know whether I would take the place of one of King Otto's personal cooks who had fallen ill.
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