The Quiet Observer of Nymphenburg Ignaz Biedermann lived through a period of shifting tastes in the German lands, moving between the quietude of Landsberg am Lech and the more settled life in Starnberg. His hands worked with oil and canvas, capturing the specific light and leisure of the early eighteenth century. He did not seek to reinvent the world, but rather to record the way people occupied the spaces around them. His brushwork re…