Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Biedermeier Style
The authentic Biedermeier furniture on 1stDibs is representative of the first modern European decorative style not dictated by the tastes of the aristocracy. Following the Napoleonic wars, a growing, wealthy urban middle class in the German-speaking states of Central Europe began to demand rights and privileges once granted only to nobles. To avoid trouble, the upwardly striving confined their political discussions to one another’s homes. And so the salon was born.
Cabinetmakers in cities such as Vienna, Berlin and Mainz began to offer goods that reflected the tastes and needs of the new class. The makers of Biedermeier chairs, tables and other furniture used little or no gilding, silver hardware or other lavish ornament. Ebonized trims are common on Biedermeier cabinetry, and neoclassical elements — lyre-shaped chair splats, carved scrollwork, table supports shaped like Greek columns. But the strongest aesthetic statement came from the wood — richly-grained, honey-colored, often book-matched veneers of walnut and fruitwood.
There are two iconic Biedermeier furniture forms, both made to outfit rooms designed for conversation. One is the sofa, deeply upholstered with a strong, architectural wooden frame. The second is the circular pedestal table, which stood at the center of the room, offering a surface on which to place coffee and cake services; or to roll out a map, or sketch out ideas on paper.
“Biedermeier” was originally a derogatory term — it derives from the pen names of two German magazine writers who mocked bourgeois manners. Looking at the elegant and refined antique, new and vintage Biedermeier furniture offered on 1stDibs, that is now an amusing irony.
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Style: Biedermeier
A Pair of Biedermeier Portraits, c.1840
Located in Savannah, GA
A pair of Biedermeier portraits, circa 1840.
Professionally restored in the 1960s.
canvas: 20 ¾ by 24 ½ inches
frame: 25 ½ by 29 ¼ inches
Found together with the portrait of ...
Category
1840s Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wood
$4,800 / set
Early 19th Century Oil Painting French Family Portrait
Located in 263-0031, JP
The term “Biedermeier” was first wielded as mildly disparaging designation for the bourgeois domesticity, so idealized by German society in the post-Napoleonic era prior to the 1848 ...
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
KPM Berlin Porcelain Picture Plaque Portrait of a Girl with Veil, ca 1830
Located in Vienna, AT
Portrait of a girl in oriental-style clothing with a headdress and veil in a scenic setting.
In original, gilded wood frame with acanthus leaf and oak leaf garland carving.
Manuf...
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1830s German Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Porcelain, Wood
Landscape "Road with Cypress and Star"
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of an impressionist vertical landscape painting titled "Road with Cypress and Star"
Category
Late 20th Century European Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Shepherd with Herd in a Victorian Landscape, Oil on Wood, 19th Century
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Shepherd with Herd in a Victorian Landscape, Oil on Wood 19th century
An original antique oil painting showing a shepherd with his sheeps and cows resting on a pond. Painted in oi...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
"Summer Day", Oil on Canvas by Danish Artist Frederic W. Svendsen (1885-1975)
Located in Miami, FL
A very lovely painting of a Scandinavian manor house interior on a bright summer's day with a period room showing furniture and accessories from the late 1...
Category
Early 20th Century Danish Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Pair of Beautiful Gilded Wall Hangings Ornaments Antique Swedish, 1900s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A lovely pair teasel gold gilt wall art Sculpture ornament. Found at an estate sale in Stockholm, Sweden. It is not marked. A nice addition to your colle...
Category
Early 1900s Swedish Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Metal
Biedermeier Painting of an European Alpine Village late 19th Century
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Biedermeier Painting of an European Alpine Village late 19th Century
An antique Victorian landscape painting framed in a silver-colored frame. Painted in oil on wood by the German p...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Pair of 19th-Century Portraits of a German Baron and Baroness
Located in Sakskøbing, DK
An elegant pair of 19th-century Biedermeier oil portraits, painted around 1870, presenting Baron Adam Franz Bernhard von Hirschberg and his wife, Charlotte Baroness von Hirschberg.
...
Category
19th Century German Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Hardwood
19th Century Antique Portrait Painting of a German Barones
Located in Sakskøbing, DK
This elegant 19th-century portrait presents Charlotte Baroness von Hirschberg, a noblewoman born in 1792. She is shown with ringlet curls framing her face and braids tied into a chig...
Category
19th Century German Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Hardwood
Hunting of the Stag Wildlife Painting
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of a wildlife hunt scene painting titled "Hunting of the Stag" showing hounds running down a stag in a classical setting
Category
Late 20th Century European Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Antique Embroidery Little Girl House Door Vine Flower Bouquet Wall Key Cabinet
Located in Munich, DE
This highly amusing and unusual little wall cabinet for keys is decorated with a charming embroidery picture of a little girl wearing a red dress wi...
Category
1830s German Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Glass, Wool, Wood
Framed German Lithographed Portrait of a Seraphine, German Biedermeier 1860s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
An extraordinary Original Lithograph of the a Lady.
Beautiful hand crafted Biedermeier Frame. We believe it is from the 1860s. Viewable picture size is approx. 8.88" high and 6.5" w...
Category
1860s German Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Glass, Wood
Framed Print of an Antique German Map of Morocco
Located in Queens, NY
Antique German map (print) of Morocco (circa 1728) featuring a central map above two city views depicted below and an upper scenic cartouche featur...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
Sailing Seascape Painting
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of a seascape painting titled "Sailing" showing small boats under sail in a strong breeze and choppy seas
Category
Late 20th Century European Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Ships Under Sail Seascape
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of a seascape painting showing ships under sail in open ocean
Category
Late 20th Century European Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Landscape "Starry Night"
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of an impressionist landscape painting titled "Starry Night" showing swirling stars over a dark village
Category
Late 20th Century European Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
$7,750
Biedermeier Picture Clock with Musical Movement, Austria, circa 1825
Located in Incline Village, NV
These painting clocks are very rare, especially containing the music box. Of Austrian manufacture circa 1820-1830, this Biedermeier picture (painting) clock is a naive and charming oil painting on metal, which depicts nine people dressed in colorful period clothes at various activities; a woman with her child and carrying fruit in a basket atop her head, two young lovers, a man in a boat, another man walking with his dog, while still another gentleman leaves the town hall. A woman at the window...
Category
19th Century Austrian Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Metal
Girl Interrupted at Her Music Painting
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of a Dutch master style painting titled "Girl Interrupted at Her Music" with girl seated under window
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Zoological Original Lithograph Featuring "the Leopard" from 1831-35
Located in Hamburg, DE
Transport yourself to the Biedermeier era with this exquisite and rare original lithograph from the book "Neue Bildergalerie der Jugend." Published between 1831 and 1835 by Carl Hell...
Category
1830s German Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Dutch Flemish Still Life
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of a Dutch Flemish still life painting showing a table set with meats, wine, fruits and crystal
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Crystal
$2,500
Masked Ball Painting
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of an interior scene painting titled "Masked Ball" showing figures dancing in a ballroom.
Category
Late 20th Century European Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
$8,200
Antique Portrait Painting of a Gentleman of the Coburg Elite
Located in Sakskøbing, DK
This rare German 19th-century portrait oil painting presents a gentleman of the Coburg Aristocracy. He is dressed in the style of the Biedermeier and early Victorian periods and was ...
Category
19th Century German Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Giltwood, Paint
Painting Cattle Carriage on an Alpine Lake, Oil on Canvas 19th century
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Painting Cattle Carriage on an Alpine Lake, Oil on Canvas 19th century
A lovely antique oil painting depicting a Tyrolian farmers family which loads their cattle heard onto a boat. The scene is located on an mountain lake in the Alpine landscape. Oil on canvas 1st half of the 19th century. Framed with vintage gilded frame, paint partly with craquelure. This painting will be a highlight in each rural decoration.
Alpine oil painting...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Canvas
Portrait of a Young Woman, Wien, 1877
Located in Budapest, HU
The girl's gentle features, while knowing nothing about her, convey a sense of familiar empathy.
Category
1870s Austrian Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Dutch Oil Painting of Interior Window Scene
Located in Queens, NY
Continental Dutch (19th Cent) oil painting of an interior scene with a mother and children by an open window (signed: WEILAND)
Category
19th Century Dutch Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Self Portrait 1887
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of an Impressionist portrait painting titled "Self Portrait 1887"
Category
Late 20th Century European Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
$5,850
19th Century Antique Portrait Painting of a German Baron in Military Uniform
Located in Sakskøbing, DK
This elegant 19th‑century oil portrait painting presents the aristocrat Adam Franz Bernhard, Baron von Hirschberg, Lord of the condominium at Ebnath and Schwarzenreuth and Royal Bava...
Category
19th Century German Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Hardwood
Continental Dutch Blue and White Hand Painted DIsplay Plate
Located in Queens, NY
Continental Dutch (18th Century) blue and white decorated charger / plate with a centered scene of a person on a lake fishing surrounded by floral patterns
Category
18th Century Dutch Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Porcelain
Painting "Landscape with Ford"
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of painting titled "Landscape with Ford" showing foot traffic at a busy stream crossing in a forest
Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use
Category
Late 20th Century European Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Copy of a Portrait of an Admiral
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of a portrait painting of an Admiral in blue dress uniform with red sash full of medals
Category
Late 20th Century European Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Ash
Stormy Sky Tall Ship Seascape
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of seascape painting "Stormy Sky" showing tall ship under full sail in stormy sea
Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use
Category
Late 20th Century European Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Flemish Landscape "Wooded Landscape"
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of a Dutch Flemish landscape painting titled "Wooded Landscape" showing impenetrable woods
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
Still Life with Gilt Goblet Painting
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of a Dutch Flemish painting titled "Still Life With Gilt Goblet" depicting food items on a serving table
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Dutch Flemish Still Life
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of Dutch Flemish still life of oysters with bread, wine, lemon and service pieces
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
$6,500
The Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind Painting
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of Dutch landscape of a procession of blind men titled "The Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind" (1568)
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Landscape "Wooded River"
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of a landscape painting titled "Wooded River" showing men in a boat with a horse and rider in the distance
Category
Late 20th Century European Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
$9,700
Painting "Bacchus"
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of painting titled "Bacchus" (1638-40) featuring a nude corpulant Bacchus and his followers
Category
Late 20th Century European Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
$16,250
Fishing Boats Near Saintes Maries Painting
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of an impressionist seascape painting titled "Fishing Boats Near Saintes Maries" done in gold tone pen and ink
Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use
Category
Late 20th Century European Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Landscape "The Avenue at Middellaruis"
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of an Impressionist landscape painting titled "The Avenue at Middellaruis" showing a tree lined road
Category
Late 20th Century European Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Pair of antique carved wall sculptures
Located in Vienna, AT
Pair of rare antique carved hardwood wall sculptures circa 1850
Woman and man (monk and nun?)
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Hardwood
$1,897 / set
Standing Nube with Blue Robe Portrait
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of a portrait painting in Viennese Secessionist style titled "Standing Nude with Blue Robe".
Category
Late 20th Century Austrian Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Dutch Hydrangea and Tulip Flora Still Life Oil Painting in an Ornate Giltwood Fr
Located in Queens, NY
Dutch (19th Century) flora still life oil painting featuring a prominent red and yellow tulip arrangement accented by hydrangeas, overflowing from a ...
Category
20th Century Dutch Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Zoological Original Lithograph Featuring "the gentle cat" from 1831-35
Located in Hamburg, DE
Transport yourself to the Biedermeier era with this exquisite and rare original lithograph from the book "Neue Bildergalerie der Jugend." Published between 1831 and 1835 by Carl Hell...
Category
1830s German Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Antique Biedermeier Ladies Portrait / Painting, 19th Century
Located in Berlin, DE
Antique Biedermeier ladies portrait / painting, 19th century.
Oil on canvas. Masterfully high quality representation of a lady in a blue dress and o...
Category
20th Century European Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Set of Four Biedermeier Style Botanical Wooden Wall Plaques
Located in Queens, NY
4 Swedish Biedermeier style 1950s maple rectangular wall plaques having a stylized inlaid floral design.
Category
Mid-20th Century Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Maple
Friedrich Schilcher, Biedermeier Portrait of a Young Woman, Vienna 19th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Portrait of a young woman dressed in a white lace blouse, with a red bow in her dark curly hair. She is placed in front of a diffuse blue background in three quarters view. Oil on ca...
Category
19th Century Austrian Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Paint
19th Century, Aquarell, Florence, Uffizien
Located in Epfach, DE
Architectural view of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Watercolour on Paper, not signed.
The fine watercolor work in delicate shades of brown, blue and g...
Category
1830s German Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
KPM Porcelain Picture Plate, Berlin circa 1830
Located in Greding, DE
Small framed KPM porcelain picture plate in silver(?) frame with architectural view and hunting dogs playing in the foreground.
Category
19th Century German Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Silver
Zoological Original Lithograph Featuring "the Lama" from 1831-35
Located in Hamburg, DE
Transport yourself to the Biedermeier era with this exquisite and rare original lithograph from the book "Neue Bildergalerie der Jugend." Published between 1831 and 1835 by Carl Hell...
Category
1830s German Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Zoological Original Lithograph Featuring a Monkey from 1831-35
Located in Hamburg, DE
Transport yourself to the Biedermeier era with this exquisite and rare original lithograph from the book "Neue Bildergalerie der Jugend." Published between 1831 and 1835 by Carl Hell...
Category
1830s German Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
19th Century Biedermeier Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Couple
Located in Berlin, DE
Biedermeier portrait of a couple, circa 1830-1850.
Two elaborately restored portraits painted on a new wedge frame. Oil on canvas with gold frame.
Category
19th Century French Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Landscape "Monlandschaft"
Located in Queens, NY
Thanks Copy of a Impressionist style landscape painting by Schindler titled,"Monlandschaft" or "Shaft of Moon Light" showing water lilys in a pond lined with trees under the moon
Co...
Category
Late 20th Century European Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Copy of "Tree With Crows" Landscape Painting
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of a German Romantic style landscape painting titled "Tree With Crows" showing a bare tree with crows against a sunrise
Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use
Category
Late 20th Century German Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Landscape Showing People Near Lightning Storm
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of a landscape painting showing people watching lightning strike near classical ruins.
Category
Late 20th Century European Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Azealas Painting with Woman in Sun Room
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of an interior scene painting titled "Azealas" showing a woman in Victorian dress in a sun room
Category
Late 20th Century European Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Beach at Schevenigen Painting
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of a landscape painting titled "Beach at Schevenigen" showing figures unloading boats
Category
Late 20th Century European Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Set 4 Old Master Charcoals
Located in Queens, NY
Set 4 Old Master matted Charcoals of scuptural figures in black frames (PRICED AS SET)
Category
20th Century European Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
$12,000 / set
Landscape of Houses in the Woods
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of Impressionist landscape painting showing houses nestled in woods on a hillside
Category
Late 20th Century European Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
Francois Nicholas Riss (1804-1886) 19th century Biedermeier childrens portrait
Located in Münster, DE
Francois Nicholas Riss (1804-1886)
Portrait of a child
signed and dated center left, Riss 1829, oil on canvas, partly retouched, stretcher renewed, framed
Dimensions: height 62 cm - width 50,5 cm
François Nicholas Riss (1804 Moscow-1886 ibid)
Born in Russia, he studied painting in Paris...
Category
1820s Russian Antique Biedermeier Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
$3,794 Sale Price
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