Lot Essay
Das Zusammenspiel von realistischen und idealistischen Elementen in der Biedermeier-Kunst - insbesondere in der charakteristischen Wiedergabe alltäglicher Situationen - waren night ausschliesslich stilistischer Natur: es war auch ein Versuch, das Lebensgefhl der Zeit wiederzugeben Waldmller und siene Mitstudenten der Wiener Akademie und Kunsthochschule versuchten die Malerei ihrer höllandischen Vorgänger des 17. Jahrhunderts zu interpretieren und wiederzubeleben.
The contribution of realistic and idealistic elements in the art of the Biedermeier period - particularly its characteristic depictions of scenes taken from everyday life - was not a purely stylistic movement : it was also an attempt to represent in some way the ineffable spirit of the age, the Lebensgefuhl.
Waldmuller and his fellow students of the Wiener Akademie and the Kunstschule were trying to interpret and recreate the work of their Dutch seventeenth century predecessors.
The contribution of realistic and idealistic elements in the art of the Biedermeier period - particularly its characteristic depictions of scenes taken from everyday life - was not a purely stylistic movement : it was also an attempt to represent in some way the ineffable spirit of the age, the Lebensgefuhl.
Waldmuller and his fellow students of the Wiener Akademie and the Kunstschule were trying to interpret and recreate the work of their Dutch seventeenth century predecessors.