Pop Icon Taylor Swift Fans Visit Germany's Cultural Institution to See Famous Ophelia Artwork

Passionate admirers of Taylor Swift are sparking a noticeable surge in attendance at a German gallery that houses a artwork of Shakespeare's heroine Ophelia, freshly featured in a tune and visual production from Swift's recent album "The Life of a Showgirl".

The museum in Wiesbaden in the mid-region German town of Wiesbaden received dozens additional patrons than typical over the past weekend, as enthusiasts hoped to see the real rendition of the artwork that opens the visual for "The Fate of Ophelia".

In the video, which has been watched over 65 countless times on online, the image springs to life, with Swift at its heart.

"We are delighted by this interest - it's a lot of fun," a gallery official stated.

The representative mentioned that one family had traveled from the north German location of this major city, a lengthy journey distant, while a portion of the visitors were Americans from a local military installation.

The official stated that fans realized the artist's painting - estimated to originate to 1900 - was on display when the gallery employees, observing the similarity, published an notice on their website inviting any Taylor Swift enthusiasts to attend a unique guided visit.

The story then went viral online, the museum said.

Digital posts describing the painting's location earned thousands of positive reactions, far higher than the approximately one hundred of reactions that most of its updates typically obtain.

In the classic play, this female figure, his love interest, a young aristocrat from Denmark, becomes insane and dies in water.

While more obscure than the famous painting of the same character, the portrait also shows a woman in a flowing gown lying submerged in liquid, framed by flowers.

The visual is echoed on Taylor Swift's release packaging, which features her partially immersed in water.

"We are astonished and delighted that the artist incorporated this painting from the museum as inspiration for her video," a gallery head expressed.

"This is, of course, a excellent possibility to draw people to the museum who are unfamiliar with us yet."

"The Life of a Showgirl" earned the Britain's biggest first week of the current year, after moving 304,000 albums in the opening the debut period.

In the US, it generated more than 4 million corresponding record units in the America in its opening week, according to industry reports, surpassing the milestone held by this artist with her record "25" in the past.

The album is Taylor Swift's third project to lead the British music chart in the current year, following "Lover (Live From Paris)" in the winter month and "a prior project", when it reappeared to the top spot in recently.

It is also the first full-length project Swift has issued since she declared her engagement to athlete the sports figure in August and disclosed in earlier that she had reclaimed ownership over her back catalogue.