Sabine Grabner

This volume illustrates the development of art in Central Europe from 1830 to 1860—a period which begins in the age of Biedermeier but extends well beyond it. It shows, by means of a selection of representative works, how art at this time developed independently and was not restricted to the historical Biedermeier era. Is that Biedermeier? we often ask of...

For ten whole months, from September 1814 to June 1815, the imperial residential city of Vienna was the centre of Europe. Never before had there been a comparable meeting of sovereigns and their ambassadors: two emperors (Tsar Alexander I, Emperor Francis I [II]), five kings (Frederick I of Württemberg, Frederick VI of Denmark, Frederick William III of Prussia, Frederick August...