Dali Planet #168: Bodenstein Castle
The 12th-century Bodenstein Castle in Norvenich, Germany, rebuilt in the 1700s, is headquarters of the European Art Foundation for the Promotion of Art and Science and, as such, the repository of a growing Dali archive, established in 1984.
In 2004, the centenary of Dali’s birth, Spain’s Crown Prince Felipe opened the Royal Dali Collection here. The photo above shows him holding a rendition of Dali’s soft watch made from sugar and marzipan.
The castle, which once had the Emperor Charlemagne as an overnight guest, was in 1970 earmarked to serve as a guest house of the West German government, but in 1980 the Bodenstein family bought the edifice and made it a centre of culture.
