The German-born artist Friedrich Danielis was so fascinated by Schloss Leopoldskron as a young person that he climbed over the walls in 1960/61, forbidden to do so, to photograph the statues in the park. The exhibition "Passing Through" showed the last surviving original prints by the artist, who died in 2021 shortly before the opening.
"At the pond of Leopoldskron was once, is, and could still be an abandoned park, enclosed by a wall, and a rural baroque little castle, put here by a theater man because he found the dominating silhouette of the fortress too warlike and the sight of the mountains oppressive, if not a mild, inviting roof, promising among dark trees and sheltered by the garden wall, as a counterbalance to alleviate the harsh one-sidedness of nature and the impression of violence and mean domination that the fortress presented. " - Friedrich Danielis
