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	Biedermeier - Elegant, Simple Interior Design
		The Biedermeier period lasted from the fall of Napoleon in 1815 until the Revolution of 1848.
		During the Biedermeier period, the continent of Europe saw a great awakening in its desire to infuse interior design with a new elegant simplicity.
		The term Biedermeier was coined after a fictitious poet, who was sarcastically describing the current style of clean lines and spare shapes that could be found in almost every home of the time.
	www.biedermeier.us /biedermeier.htm (784 words)

	MAM - About Us - Press Room
		Biedermeier: The Invention of Simplicity is organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum in collaboration with the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin and the Albertina in Vienna.
		The term “Biedermeier” is often assumed to be the surname of a cabinetmaker of the period, but is actually an imaginary character -- a pseudonym that played on the German adjective “bieder,” meaning plain and unpretentious, and “Meier,” a common German surname.
		Biedermeier painting, which is not well known in the U.S., followed in the wake of the intellectual movement, German Romanticism.
	www.mam.org /aboutus/pressreleases/2006_6_5.htm (2326 words)

	Biedermeier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Central Europe, Biedermeier refers to work in the fields of literature, music, the visual arts and interior design in the period between the years 1815 (Vienna Congress), the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and 1848, the year of the European revolutions and contrasts with the Romantic era which preceded it.
		The term Biedermeier comes from the pseudonym Gottlieb Biedermaier, used by the country doctor Adolf Kussmaul and the lawyer Ludwig Eichrodt in poems, printed in the Munich Fliegenden Blättern (Flying Sheets), parodying the poems of the Biedermeier era as depoliticized and petit-bourgeois.
		Biedermeier architecture is marked by simplicity and elegance, exemplified by the paintings of Jacob von Alt and Carl Spitzweg.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Biedermeier (563 words)

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