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What Is Biedermeier Style?

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Summary: The Biedermeier style refers to aspects of everyday life, comfort and family. Learn about Biedermeier with tips from an art historian in this free fine art video.

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By Ilona Fekete
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Ilona Fekete has graduated at the ELTE University in Budapest as an art historian. Her specialization is the period of Biedermeier art. Fekete is working as an art historian at the...read more

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"Biedermeier, Biedermeier is your life style. What I could say because, we use this word today as well, especially furnitures that are very popular today. It's the bourgeois lifestyle. If you have a Biedermeier table, a Bierdermeir arm chair, then you can feel yourself as a real as a real bourgeois, that you live in a calm family in a, so it's about also about community and family and warmness and so on. And that is the saying we can recognize on the painting, in the topics, in the style as well."

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