Main entry:

Ottomeyer, Hans.

Title & Author:

Biedermeier : the invention of simplicity / Hans Ottomeyer, Klaus Albrecht Schröder, and Laurie Winters ; contributions by Albrecht Pyritz [and others].

Edition:

First edition

Publication:

Milwaukee, Wis. : Milwaukee Art Museum ; Ostfildern, Germany : Hatje Cantz, [2006]
©2006

Description:

399 pages : color illustrations ; 34 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Sept. 16, 2006-Jan. 1, 2007 and at three other museums.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-398).
The rediscovery of the Biedermeier period / Laurie Winters -- The invention of simplicity / Hans Ottomeyer -- The aesthetics of Biedermeier furniture / Christian Witt-Dörring -- A culture of harmony and memory / Laurie A. Stein -- Plates. Cabinet furniture and tables / Christian Witt-Dörring and Hans Ottomeyer ; Seating furniture / Christian Witt-Dörring ; Cabinetmakers' drawings / Christian Witt-Dörring ; Interior views / Laurie A. Stein ; Color theory and scientific instruments / Gisela Maul and Albrecht Pyritz ; Wallpaper / Sabine Thümmler ; Porcelain / Albrecht Pyritz ; Glass / Jutta Annette Page ; Silver / Paul Asenbaum and Albrecht Pyritz ; Metalwork / Albrecht Pyritz ; Clothing / Regina Karner ; Northern European painting and drawing / Laurie Winters ; Central European painting and drawing / Cornelia Reiter -- Catalogue of the Exhibition.

Summary:

Biedermeier: The Invention of Simplicity is published in conjunction with the first major exhibition in North America of furniture, decorative objects, and fine art from the Biedermeier period (1815-30). The Milwaukee Art Museum, the Albertina in Vienna, and the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin, have worked together to assemble more than four hundred examples of art that demonstrate how elements of simplicity, natural beauty, and clarity of form predominated and gave shape to a new aesthetic vision that anticipated Modernism. --jacket.

ISBN:

377571796X
9783775717960
0944110851
9780944110850
0944110894 (pbk.)
9780944110898 (pbk.)
3775717951
9783775717953

Subject:

Biedermeier (Art) Europe, Central Exhibitions.
Art, European 19th century Exhibitions.
Biedermeier (Art) Europe centrale Expositions.
Art européen 19e siècle Expositions.
Art, European
Biedermeier (Art)
Art, European Europe, Central 19th century Exhibitions.
Central Europe

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Schröder, Klaus Albrecht.
Winters, Laurie.
Milwaukee Art Museum.

Invention of simplicity

Holdings:

Location: Library main 251681
Call No.: BIB 181238
Status: Available