Biedermeier n.

1899, in reference to the artistic, literary, and decorative styles popular in middle-class, mid-19c. German households. It is from German, a reference to Gottlieb Biedermeier, the name of a fictitious writer of stodgy poems (invented by Ludwig Eichrodt as a satire on bourgeois taste). The term was used in German publications from c. 1870. Also as an adjective, "conventional, bourgeois."