num_pages: 264
description: Tall, handsome, romantic, with a pronounced taste for Schiller and Wagner, 'Mad' Ludwig II of Bavaria appeared in 1846 to his people like an eighteen-year-old Lohengrin.In June 1886, corpulent and toothless, he was declared insane by his ministers and imprisoned. Five days later the bodies of Ludwig and his warder were found in the shallow water of Lake Sharnberg. Today he is remembered for some of Bavaria's most lucrative attractions - Wagner's operas (fruits of his quixotic patronage), the opera house at Bayreuth and a series of enchanted castles - the very things that Ludwig was condemned for.In this lavishly illustrated biography Wilfrid Blunt has skillfully portrayed the fantastic world of a strange and misunderstood king.
language: English
title: The Dream King: Ludwig II of Bavaria
titlecomplete: The Dream King: Ludwig II of Bavaria
genres: History, Germany, Biography, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 86
publisher: Penguin Books (UK)