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Exhibit in Vienna - Public Sentiment and Tumult - Biedermeier and the Pre-Revolutionary Period in Vienna
Vienna's Museum of History hosted an exhibit in the "Künstlerhaus" from December 17, 1987 to June 12, 1988, which appraised once again the Biedermeier phenomenon in Vienna. "Public Sentiment and Tumult - Biedermeier and the Pre-Revolutionary Period in Vienna, 1815-1848" displayed a painting from this epoch from an objective, somewhat transfigured view. For as we often reduce the first half of the 19th century to an image of dreamy country outings, people in those days were faced with a very sobering reality. One only has to think of the French Wars at the beginning of the century which also affected Vienna. It was not easy to make do in those days, so Biedermeier created an alternative world to everyday realities, an ideal place in which he projected his yearning for outer and inner peace, happiness, and harmony. Biedermeier spared little room for passions. Humanism and sensitivity formed the idyll, which became the individual's ideal.
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