Summary of Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel the Elder was an artist of the Northern Renaissance whose visually engrossing paintings offer a celebration of the common mass of humanity, in contrast to the pious religious painting which dominated much Renaissance art of the previous century. Born in what is now the Netherlands in the s, reputedly into a peasant family, his work focuses on themes such as rural working life, religion and superstition, and the political and social intrigues of his day. These themes were tackled with an unmistakable, droll and often grotesque humor, an interest in the collective over the individual, and a healthy skepticism for narratives of great deeds and men. From the Dutch Golden Age painters of the following century to the Realists of nineteenth-century France and beyond, any artist who has cast their eye over their subject with an honesty debunking mythology works in the spirit of the man sometimes known as "Peasant Bruegel".
Accomplishments
- Bruegel's most distinctive stylistic contribution to art history was a form of narrative composition in which a sprawling landscape is filled with a teeming mass of humanity, figures grouped toge
Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel
Featuring works by Hieronymus Bosch (c. ), Jan Gossaert (c. ), Maarten van Heemskerck (), Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. ), Hendrick Goltzius (), and others, this book positions drawing in the Low Countries in the sixteenth century as a dynamic, multifaceted practice. Drawings played roles as varied as the artists who made them: they were designs for prints, paintings, stained glass windows, decorative objects, and tapestries, as well as tools for presentation, translation, and the display of knowledge and virtuosity. The artists' diversified urban communities shaped their drawing practices, as did shifting cultural and political circumstances surrounding Protestant Reform and the Eighty Years' War. In addition to the book's four essays, many of the more than eighty catalogue entries--selected from the holdings of The Albertina Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art--present new research.
BRUEGEL'S LEGACY
The other genius Belgian artist that Bruegel influenced was none other than the painter James Ensor. Ensor wrote a spirited speech in his honour during a commemorative event in
"To you, Bruegel the Droll, Bruegel of Marolles, Bruegel of the peasants, of joyous villains, of miserable dogsbodies, of the corpulent and burly, of the pallid and skinny, […] of twisted proverbs, of ironic Babels, of surprising landscapes, of amazingly comical birds, of lavish weddings[…].
Let’s be proud of our Flemish painter, the most beautiful, solid, ornate, scented, honest, civil of painters. Let’s lift our eyes and our glasses to he who created all. […] Creator of modern art, of the modern landscape, he predicted it all: light, atmosphere, mysterious life between beings and things. […]
Let’s lift our glasses higher: To Bruegel, pillar of the world, miracle of Flemish art!"
James Ensor, Mes écrits, p.Matthias Bürgel
Hallo Ihr Lieben,
mein Name ist Bond…äh Bürgel, Matthias Bürgel. Meine Freunde nennen mich manchmal Matze.
Verheiratet, Vater von zwei wunderbaren Kindern und völlig durchgeknallter Opa einer bildschönen, zauberhaften Enkelin und zwei ebenso bezaubernden Enkeln. Ihr Heidi Klums, Cindy Crawfords, Adriana Limas, Zac Efrons, Chris Hemsworthes und Ian Somerhalders dieser Welt: zieht euch warm an!
Als kleiner Bub war ich ein rechter Rotzlöffel, der nur dummes Zeug angestellt hat. Kein Michel von Lönneberga, aber trotzdem hatte ich es faustdick hinter den Ohren. Nachdem ich mich mehr schlecht als recht durch die Schule bis zur Mittleren Reife durchgewurschtelt hatte, fanden es meine Eltern eine saugute Idee, dass ihr Sprössling eine Lehre beim Unterwäschehersteller SCHIESSER macht. So habe ich dann eine Lehre zum „Stricker“ absolviert. Jaaa! Ihr habt ganz richtig gelesen. Zum Stricker. In Neudeutsch heißt das jetzt wohl „Textilmechaniker, Fachbereich Maschentechnik“.
Das hat natürlich zu mir gepasst, wie die Faust aufs Auge. Nach einer Pilgerreise zum BIZ-Berufsinformationszentrum, kurz vor meiner Gesellenprüfung, hat es, nach Beantwortung von gefühlt Millionen
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