A Room of My Own
In 2005, Huxter invited 12 artists from 8 different countries to produce new work in response to the Biedermeier Rooms at the Imperial Furniture Museum in Vienna. The rooms reconstruct middle-class Viennese domestic environments from 1815 to 1848, and each artist chose their own room. Apart from curating the exhibition, Huxter painted a self-portrait as Archiduke Franz Karl in response to a portrait of the young Habsburg with a nest of birds in the museum’s collection. The painting Bieder Tiger Eats Minor Habsburg in which a tiger-skin rug covered with a floral Biedermeier pattern appears to be devouring a miniature unnamed Habsburg, was an attempt by Huxter to convey the political atmosphere in the Habsburg Empire during the Biedermeier epoch.
