After Confiscation

Ferdinand Waldm�ller was the most important Austrian painter of the first half of the 19th century, and the leading representative of the Biedermeier style which emerged in Austria and Germany between 1815 (the year of the Congress of Vienna) and the Revolution of 1848. For Waldm�ller and the Biedermeier circle, art’s only purpose was the study of nature from an objective point of view, a conviction which led him to reject any idealizing or Romantic tendency. In addition to landscapes Waldm�ller also painted other subjects, all with an equally realistic approach, such as still-lifes, portraits and scenes of everyday life and customs.