10th May, 2018 r., 05.00 pm
The National Museum, 3 Wały Chrobrego Street, Szczecin

We invite you to a lecture by Krystyna Milewska entitled "Homeland, Region - Poland in the Period of Partitions 1815-1848" taking place as part of the program accompanying the exhibition "Biedermeier" presented at the National Museum in Szczecin until April 15, 2018.Biedermeier, primarily coloured with irony and humour German term (bieder – kind, honest, noble and Meier – a popular German surname), being a synonym of naivety, conseravtism, old-fashioned taste, as well, as backwardness and narrow-mindedness, entered art historians' vocabulary at the verge of the 19th century as the name of a style of the first half of the age in, above all, applied arts. It is chracterized by simplicity, artistry and solidity, nobility of materials and comfortable functionality. With time, the meaning of the word was extended. It became a term for Central-European widely understood city culture – phenomena present not only in applied arts, but also in painting, drawing, graphics, literature or music. Today Biedermeier, seen as "domesticated Romanticism", is a multi-meaning idea describing the times of the first half of the 19th century in Central Europe, conventional borders of which are important events of European history: Congress of Vienna in 1815 and Revolutions of 1848.

Free entry.

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