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An introduction to the Biedermeier period.
The Biedermeier period in Germany and Austria (c. 1815-1848) acquired its name from a fictional character named Gottlieb Biedermaier, who was portrayed in the Munich satirical weekly Fliegende Blatter as a recently deceased schoolteacher and poet from a village in Swabia, Germany. His name can be translated as "common man," and his uneventful daily life and naive poems were paraded in issue after issue of the paper for the entertainment of its bourgeois readers.
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Biedermaier was intended to represent the typical German citizen, whose chief interests were a comfortable home, a convivial family, and good home cooking, rather than ...
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...too. A timeline at the back is helpful for settling arguments about when the German Empire period ended and the Biedermeier period began. And a glossary of terms can further clarify such matters as the difference between marquetry and parquetry...
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...view through Jan. 1] is notable for two major contributions to scholarship. In its catalogue, the art of the Biedermeier period, marked by similarities with Neo-Classicism and Romanticism as well as by differences, is defined with greater...
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...seeking to appeal to youngsters. Goebbels, also a music fanatic, would have approved. "We don't live in the Biedermeier period", he once said, "but in a century whose melody is determined by the thousand-fold buzz of machines and roar...
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...well, and then developed into a full publishing house. This development occurred during the mid-19th century Biedermeier period, a time in which German middle-class culture flourished and which was marked in Westphalia by Prussian government...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Shaw-Eagle, Joanna June 9, 2001 700+ words
...Renaissance Italy. They got their names because they sometimes wore costumes evoking Nazareth of biblical times. The Biedermeier period exuded peace and prosperity. Emphasis was on painting done simply and realistically. Painters such as Johann...
Source: HighBeam Research, An introduction to the Biedermeier period.