DOLLMANN, GEORG VON

born Oct. 21, 1830, Ansbach, Bavaria [now in Germany] died March 31, 1895, Munich, Ger. in full Georg Carl Heinrich Von Dollmann German architect, builder of three grandiose curiosities sponsored by the mentally ill king Louis (Ludwig) II of Bavaria: Linderhof (186978), Neuschwanstein (186986), and Herrenchiemsee (187885; incomplete). The neo-Baroque or neo-Rococo Linderhof is especially incongruous in its mountainous setting. For Neuschwanstein, which was intended to suggest the medieval Teutonism of Richard Wagner's opera Tannhuser (1845), Dollmann utilized Christoph Jank's design for an inflated Wartburg (castle near Eisenach, Thuringia). Herrenchiemsee was planned as a replica of the French royal residence at Versailles.