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Biedermeier|ˈbiːdəmaɪə(r)|
Also -maier, -meyer.
[The name of a fictitious poet, Gottlieb Biedermaier (see below).]
Applied attrib. to the period between 1815 and 1848 in Germany and to styles, furnishings, etc., characteristic of that period, esp. to a type of furniture derived from the French Empire style. Also transf. with derogatory implication: conventional, bourgeois.
[1854[L. Eichrodt] in Fliegende Blätter XXI. 102/1 (title) Auserlesene Gedichte von Weiland Gottlieb Biedermaier, Schulmeister in Schwaben. Ibid. 103/1 Die ästhetischen Begriffe des Biederschönen und Bidermaiern. ]1905A. S. Levetus Imperial Vienna xvi. 245 The Biedermaier period also produced landscape-painters. 1914Eberlein & McClure Pract. Bk. Period Furniture xv. 323 Following the prevalence of the Empire style we see the advent of the Biedermeyer type of painted decoration. 1924G. B. Stern Tents of Israel i. 8 A true son of the Biedemeyer period, in his long, tight pantaloons, his cambric frills. 1956English Studies XXXVII. 183 The examples..from the early Victorian age may be regarded as contradictions of the ‘Biedermeier’ dominance in literature. 1957Encycl. Brit. IX. 948E/2 The Biedermeier style..is characterized by chairs with curved legs and sofas with rolled arms and generous upholstery. 1963Listener 24 Jan. 161/1 A hill close to the centre of the city [sc. Darmstadt] where there was a piece of Biedermeier park and a Russian church. |