soiree

social event

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In Biedermeier style
…indispensable part of the popularized soiree. Soirees perpetuated the rising middle class’s cultural interests in books, writing, dance, and poetry readings—all subject matter for Biedermeier painting, which was either genre or historical and most often sentimentally treated. The most representative painters include Franz Krüger, Georg Friedrich Kersting, Julius Oldach, Carl…
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