Biedermeier (redirected from Biedemeier)

Bie·der·mei·er  (bdr-mr)

adj.

Of or relating to a type of furniture developed in Germany during the first half of the 19th century and modeled after French Empire styles.

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[After Gottlieb Biedermeier, the unsophisticated imaginary author of poems written by Ludwig Eichrodt (1827-1892) and others.]

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Biedermeier [ˈbiːdəˌmaɪə]

adj

1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Furniture) of or relating to a decorative and furnishing style in mid-19th-century Germany, characterized by solidity and conventionality

2. boringly conventional in outlook; bourgeois

[after Gottlieb Biedermeier, a fictitious character portrayed as a conventional unimaginative bourgeois and the author of poems actually written by several satirical poets]

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Biedermeier - of or relating to a style of furniture developed in Germany in the 19th century