“Biedermeier – The Invention of Simplicity, an exhibition featuring 450 paintings, drawings, as well as works from all fields of decorative art, focuses on the very essence of this epoch’s artistic production. The determining features of Biedermeier art, as a counterbalance to the representational style that was dominant at the time, developed even before 1800, guided by a “reduction to the principles” of antique classicism.”