Unsinnsgesellschaft

Zur Unsinniade 4. Gesang. Watercolour by Ernst Welker (31 December 1817)[1]

The Unsinnsgesellschaft (Nonsenses Society) was a brotherhood of artists in Vienna that met regularly from April 1817 to the end of 1818. Its members included important artists of the Biedermeier period such as August von Kloeber, Johann Nepomuk Hoechle, August Kopisch, Josef and Leopold Kupelwieser and Franz Schubert.[2][3][4]

All 25-30 members but one, the proprietress of the inn where they met, were men. Although two took women's names within the club, of which still-life painter Johann Carl Smirsch [de] was known for dressing in women's clothing and wearing peacock feathers.[4]

  1. ^ Die Unsinnsgesellschaft: Franz Schubert, Leopold Kupelwieser und ihr Freundeskreis. Böhlau. 1998. pp. 181, X. ISBN 3-205-98820-5.
  2. ^ Die Unsinnsgesellschaft: Franz Schubert, Leopold Kupelwieser und ihr Freundeskreis. Böhlau. 1998. pp. Blurb, IX, 22–25. ISBN 3-205-98820-5.
  3. ^ Schuberts literarische Heimat: Dichtung und Literatur-Rezeption der Schubert-Freunde. Böhlau. 1999. pp. 80f. ISBN 3-205-99051-X.
  4. ^ a b Frühauf, Tina (2005). "Schubert and the Draisine: An Odd Couple in the Archiv des Menschlichen Unsinns". Music in Art. 30 (1/2): 117–119. ISSN 1522-7464. JSTOR 41818778.