Pragai, Andrienn: Biedermeier Lifestyles. Exhibition: Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, 2024. 340 pages, over 300 colour illustrations. Hardback. 28x24cms. Catalogue for the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, October 2024 to February 2025. Over 300 paintings, porcelains, glassware, silverware, furniture, textiles, and musical instruments on display are discussed in view of the social developments of the Biedermeier period. Looking at the first permanent exhibition in the Hungarian National Museum in 1846 and the launch of the first Hungarian Academy of Painting, Biedermeier art, which characterises the work of Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller, Josef Danhauser, Friedrich von Amerling, and Aton Einsle, is approached in the context of the new nationalist and domestic values of mid-19th century Europe..
Catalogue for the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, October 2024 to February 2025. Over 300 paintings, porcelains, glassware, silverware, furniture, textiles, and musical instruments on display are discussed in view of the social developments of the Biedermeier period. Looking at the first permanent exhibition in the Hungarian National Museum in 1846 and the launch of the first Hungarian Academy of Painting, Biedermeier art, which characterises the work of Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller, Josef Danhauser, Friedrich von Amerling, and Aton Einsle, is approached in the context of the new nationalist and domestic values of mid-19th century Europe.. Text in English