9/6/07.  The Ringstraße & Austrian Biedermeier Culture

Today’s Class: Lecture: Enlightenment & Bourgeois Values + In-Class Writing Assignment + Slide Presentation: 19^th-Century Austrian Biedermeier culture

Lecture. Enlightenment & Bourgeois Values.

Enlightenment 1740-1815:

Emperors: Maria Theresia (1740–80) & Franz I, Joseph II (1780–90), Leopold II (1790-92), Franz II (1792–1835):

Reason and rationality praised but strict Habsburg control.

Aristocratic/Bourgeois Values:

Tolerance

Virtue/Chastity

Internalization of Control Mechanisms through Guilt 

Gender Codes

In-Class Writing Assignment:

Are you familiar with any aspects of Austrian history/ culture? Have you ever lived there or visited? What aspects of the culture interest you the most (Art? Literature? Architecture? History? Politics? Antisemitism? Psychology? Music? Military? Food?) Do you have any formal training in any of these disciplines?

Lecture: Slide Presentation & Overview of 19^th-Century Austrian Romantic/Biedermeier Culture

A. Romanticism:

1. C.D. Friedrich: Moonrise at Sea (1822) + Man & Woman Watching the Moonrise (1824)
2. K. F. Schinkel: Felsentor (1818)
3. F.L. Catel’s Schinkel in Neapel (1824)
   

B. Biedermeier Art

1. Joh. Michael Neder: Family Portrait  (1836)
2. Emilius Bärentsen: Schramm Family (18?)
3. E. von Engert’s Viennese Garden (1828)
4. C. Spitzweg’s Love Letter (1845-6)
5. Albrecht Adam: Artist with his Sons in his Munich Atelier (1835)
6. Carl Blechen: Interior of the Palm House (1832)
   

C.  Design: Furniture & Interior Design