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5 unusual facts about Biedermeier


Heiden, Switzerland

Its Biedermeier village around the church square is listed as a heritage site of national significance.

Joseph Nigg

With the advent of the Biedermeier Era, flower painting became immensely popular and was also to be found on large porcelain plaques.

Kunšperk

The architecture of the town today shows Classicist and Biedermeier features, as well as the work of local 18th- and 19th-century stone cutters.

Rollmops

Rollmops grew popular throughout Germany during the Biedermeier period of the early 19th century and were known as a particular specialty of Berlin, like the similar pickled herring dish Bismarckhering.

Steve Whitehead

In particular Whitehead is influenced by the landscape traditions of northern European romantics, such as Caspar David Friedrich, and the realism of the Biedermeier realist painters.


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Art of Slovenia

Historically, painting and sculpture in Slovenia was in the late 18th and the 19th century marked by Neoclassicism (Matevž Langus), Biedermeier (Giuseppe Tominz) and Romanticism (Mihael Stroj).

Peter Branscombe

His interests included the popular theatre of the Biedermeier and the Viennese suburban theatre with authors like Raimund and Nestroy.

Trsat

Count Laval Nugent, Marshal and military commander of the Austrian coastal area, bought the ruins off the city, for an annual payment of one florint and had it restored in a Romantic Classicist-Biedermeier-style.


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