10TH APRIL–27TH JULY 2025
The Leopold Museum is dedicating a large-scale spring exhibition to the fascinating era of the Biedermeier, which lasted from the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15 to the bourgeois revolutions of 1848. The presentation features around 190 works by more than 70 artists, including paintings, watercolors and drawings, as well as furnishings, glass, porcelain, dresses, and much more. Following the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Europe was shaped by massive political and social upheaval, which profoundly changed society. The exhibition Biedermeier. The Rise of an Era focuses not only on Vienna as the capital and residential city of the Habsburg Empire but also on the magnificent centers of the crown lands, including Budapest, Prague, Ljubljana, Venice and Milan, and their environs. Rather than concentrating only on the Viennese masters, such as Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller and Friedrich von Amerling, the presentation also shines the spotlight on eminent artists from the various parts of the Danube Monarchy, among them painters like the Hungarian Miklós Barabás, the Czech Antonín Machek, the Venetian Francesco Hayez or the artist active in Trieste, Jožef Tominc (Giuseppe Tominz).
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Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Restored to New Life, 1852 © LIECHTENSTEIN. The Princely Collections, Vaduz–Vienna, Photo: LIECHTENSTEIN. The Princely Collections, Vaduz–Vienna
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Mother with Children Returning Home, 1863 © Leopold Museum, Vienna, Photo: Leopold Museum, Vienna
