The Louvre Museum in Paris will open on the 18th of October 2007 a rich retrospective dedicated to Biedermeier art, focusing on it's development and values in Vienna and Prague, between 1815 - 1830. Biedermeier was closely linked to Neo-classicism, developping in a period of peace, between the Napoleonian wars, being a style that was at the same time sobre and full of fantasy and richness. At first, the Beidermeier art was chosen and promoted by the Imperial family in Vienna, and in a short period of time it became hugely popular, being adopted by all of the aristocracy of those times.
The curators of the exhibition have chosen the works that present Biedermeier, ranging furniture, silverware, cristal and china, to textiles and works on paper, paintings and studies, depicting the charm of a world both elegant and precious.
June 2007
