Director of the Leopold Museum, Hans-Peter Wipplinger, stands in front of the painting "Gray Day", 1921, by the painter George Grosz in the exhibition "Splendor and Misery - New Objectivity in Germany ...
If chairs and chests and tables could embody the secret yearnings of a dangerous time, they would be Biedermeier. The venerated veneered furnishings, by turns playful and austere, were crafted in ...
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Antique dealer Rupert Cavendish stumbled upon Biedermeier furniture by accident when his business partner bought the wrong lot number at an auction. But that mistaken purchase ...