Austria Josef Platz 1926 National Bibliothek etching Radierung Woyty Wimmer

Description: Austria Josef Platz 1926 National Bibliothek etching Radierung signed. Wien, Nationalbibliothek" Original-Radierung, Woyty-Wimmer Hubert (1901 - 1972) Publication Date: 1926 Minor signs of age Josephsplatz, Vienna, 1839 Fischer von Erlach’s Imperial and Royal Court Library with the equestrian statue of Emperor Joseph II Austria’s capital expanded rapidly during the interval between the Congress of Vienna and the ubiquitous pan-European insurrections of March, 1848. This was the era known alternately as the “pre-March” — a term that signifies the uneasy reactionary and authoritarian political climate established under Austria’s Prince Metternich — and the “Biedermeier,”[2] denoting the then-prevalent culture of domesticity: bourgeois, conventional, and largely devoted to the pursuit of creature comforts and social pleasures. In the period of restoration that followed the Napoleonic Wars, sovereigns, fearful of revolutionary ideas, marshaled all the repressive powers of the state toward the re-establishment of the status quo ante. Metternich’s argus-eyed police state, its strict censorship enforced by a host of informers, ensured that Viennese intellectual and artistic life would not stray too far beyond the bounds of the politically acceptable.[3] Curiously, as political and intellectual speech grew to be more severely regulated, social life became more uninhibited. Public and private spheres reversed; significant political discourse took place mostly behind closed doors as personal pleasures were increasingly sought in salons, coffee-houses and dance halls, on excursions to the Prater or promenades in Vienna’s other delightful parks.[4] Josephsplatz, Vienna, 1839 Fischer von Erlach’s Imperial and Royal Court Library with the equestrian statue of Emperor Joseph II Austria’s capital expanded rapidly during the interval between the Congress of Vienna and the ubiquitous pan-European insurrections of March, 1848. This was the era known alternately as the “pre-March” — a term that signifies the uneasy reactionary and authoritarian political climate established under Austria’s Prince Metternich — and the “Biedermeier,”[2] denoting the then-prevalent culture of domesticity: bourgeois, conventional, and largely devoted to the pursuit of creature comforts and social pleasures. In the period of restoration that followed the Napoleonic Wars, sovereigns, fearful of revolutionary ideas, marshaled all the repressive powers of the state toward the re-establishment of the status quo ante. Metternich’s argus-eyed police state, its strict censorship enforced by a host of informers, ensured that Viennese intellectual and artistic life would not stray too far beyond the bounds of the politically acceptable.[3] Curiously, as political and intellectual speech grew to be more severely regulated, social life became more uninhibited. Public and private spheres reversed; significant political discourse took place mostly behind closed doors as personal pleasures were increasingly sought in salons, coffee-houses and dance halls, on excursions to the Prater or promenades in Vienna’s other delightful parks.[4]

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