Biedermeier

"It is typical of the early Biedermeier, still showing the lingering influence of the French empire, encrusted with ornamentation and detail," noted Laurie Winters.

Early Biedermeier emphasized simple, curving lines in opposition to neoclassical and baroque elements.

When Frederick died, there followed that time of which Germans themselves are ashamed—the hole-and-corner time, the time when the parochial spirit was abroad and no German burgher saw beyond the village church and the village pump; the Biedermeier time (that comic figure of the German Punch), the time of genuine German philistinism, when the people were lapped in an idyllic repose and were content, as many are to-day, with the smallest and simplest pleasures.