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Biedermeier

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Biedermeier

Early- to mid-19th-century Germanic style of art and furniture design, derogatorily named after Gottlieb Biedermeier, a humorous pseudonym used by several German poets, embodying bourgeois taste.



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When asked if taking the story out of Biedermeier Prussia into post-Edwardian San Francisco trifled with a classic, he was blunt.
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The Cologne-based artist is known on American shores mostly for watercolors and oils that evoke nineteenth-century German history, folklore, and Biedermeier genre scenes or, in darker moments, the baleful narratives of George Grosz.
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Firstly, because the focus of the course is on archetypal human relationships, rather than on the literary and social conventions of the Biedermeier, the fin-de-siecle or the post-war period, the characters of the older texts, stand side by side with those of the contemporary novels.
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