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Textile Design Art Movements and Period Styles Biedermeier Look France, 1898, RP cotton, HFYG D424 03

Title: Textile Design Art Movements and Period Styles Biedermeier Look France, 1898, RP cotton, HFYG D424_03
Design Library Classification: Art Movements and Period Styles
Design Library Sub-classification: Biedermeier Look
Media Type Textile Design
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Creator(s): Unknown
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Contributor: Design Library
Country France
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Publication Date: 1898
Image Description: France, 1898, RP cotton

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"GOTTLIEB BIEDERMEIER WAS a fictional character, an archetype up for grabs by any writer out to satirize the safe lives of the Austrian and German bourgeoisie in the years between the fall of Napoleon, in 1815, and Europe's year of revolutions, 1848. The decor to which Biedermeier gave his name is characterized by its safeness, the colors neither too bright nor too pale, the motifs neither small nor large, the layouts predictably regular; everything right down the middle. There is always a market for conservative prints, and the Biedermeier look is still produced, though it is seldom called by that name. None of the patterns below, in fact, is a genuine Biedermeier; all are later additions to the genre. Numbers 1, 3, and 4 were made in Alsace for the German market during the period after the Franco-Prussian War when the province was a German possession. Number 2 is a direct Biedermeier descendant."

Source: Design Library