Always the canvas recoils when he tries to apply the brush. How can hope be made apparent if he
doesn't succeed in putting the white dove into the painting? Brentano's smile was so friendly
when he Schinkel had made a sketch in his notebook of Brentano's impromptu story even while
it was being told. And now in oil almost ready on the easel he can't reach the painting with
his brush ...In his feverish dreams Schinkel struggles to complete his painting Castle By The
River on his sick bed he relives his fulfilled life marked by an overwhelming sense of duty
and the tragedy of the architect and artist who became a servant of his king.
