Major monograph for Pieter Bruegel the Elder - exhibition, book, art, videos, and commentary
A 'once in several lifetimes' Bruegel exhibition opens at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna today, 2 October and continues until 13 January 2019. It's the largest which has ever been held and reunites more work than ever before.
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This is the Museum's video about the exhibition - it's in German but the subtitles are in English
These are links to the different sections of the exhibition's website
I remember being very impressed by Bruegel's painting in the exhibition at the Queen's Gallery in 2009 - when I saw Massacre of the Innocents (in the Royal Collection) - see my review Exhibition review: From Bruegel to Rubens - Masters of Flemish Painting.
Despite the indications of the drawing above, he was just over 40 years old when he died and achieved a huge amount in his lifetime in terms of travels, paintings, drawings and etchings and recognition.
He was born just after the start of the Protestant Reformation and thus became a pioneer of genre scenes - of the activities of common people - after religious subjects stopped being the feature of most paintings.
As a painter his paintings were more highly valued by collectors than critics.
The collectors got it right - as his paintings continue to be ever popular to this day!
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2019 sees the 450th anniversary of the death of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c 1525/30 – 1569). To mark the occasion the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna is dedicating the world’s first ever major monograph exhibition to the artist widely regarded as the 16th century’s greatest Netherlandish painter.
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| website for the Bruegel exhibition in Vienna |
- essays and articles about Bruegel
- artwork by Bruegel
- videos about both the exhibition and some of the paintings that can be seen in the exhibition.
- exhibition reviews - which are FIVE STAR!
With its vibrant vistas of comedy and horror, this astonishing exhibition reveals how the 16th-century Flemish master created art that was simply more human and generous than anyone else’s Jonathan Jones
The Exhibition
This is the Museum's video about the exhibition - it's in German but the subtitles are in English
These are links to the different sections of the exhibition's website
- Who is Pieter?
- Watch two monkeys emerge
- The Tower of Babel
- Carnival vs. Lent
- Radical details
- A Summit of Masterpieces
- The Hunters in the Snow
- Of Wimmelbilder (busy pictures) and children’s games
- Christ carrying the Cross
- Six Seasons for a Dining Room
- Researching Bruegel
- Revealing glimpses into the heart of panel paintings
I remember being very impressed by Bruegel's painting in the exhibition at the Queen's Gallery in 2009 - when I saw Massacre of the Innocents (in the Royal Collection) - see my review Exhibition review: From Bruegel to Rubens - Masters of Flemish Painting.
Who is Pieter Bruegel the Elder?
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| The Painter and the Buyer (1565) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1526-1569) pen and brown ink |
Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel) the Elder (Dutch: [ˈpitər ˈbrøːɣəɫ]; c. 1525-1530 – 9 September 1569) was the most significant artist of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker from Brabant, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so called genre painting); he was a pioneer in making both types of subject the focus in large paintings. Wikipedia
Despite the indications of the drawing above, he was just over 40 years old when he died and achieved a huge amount in his lifetime in terms of travels, paintings, drawings and etchings and recognition.
He was born just after the start of the Protestant Reformation and thus became a pioneer of genre scenes - of the activities of common people - after religious subjects stopped being the feature of most paintings.
while early scholarship emphasized the vernacular character of his painting and graphic work, modern research has attached greater importance to its humanistic content. TaschenHe designed prints for publisher Hieronymus Cock, and produced numerous print series that were distributed throughout Europe.
As a painter his paintings were more highly valued by collectors than critics.
The collectors got it right - as his paintings continue to be ever popular to this day!
READ MORE......>>
