Painter and buyer
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| Painter and buyer |
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| Pieter Bruegel the Elder , around 1565 |
| Pen in brown |
| 25.5 x 21.5 cm |
| Albertina graphic collection |
Painter and buyer is a pen drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder from around 1565 in the Albertina Graphic Collection . An alternative title is artist and connoisseur .
Content and execution
The painter holds a paintbrush in his right hand and looks past the viewer to the left, presumably to the object he is painting. A second man looks over his shoulder at the resulting painting. However, this work is hidden from the viewer. Bruegel limits himself entirely to the depiction of the two dissimilar men: the painterly drawn painter with tangled hair, bushy eyebrows and a shaggy beard and the more outlined viewer behind him with a pince-nez , an unattractive nose and a slightly open mouth.
Technology and place of exhibition
It is a brown pen drawing with the dimensions 25.5 x 21.5 cm. The place of storage is the Albertina Graphic Collection in Vienna, inventory number 7500.
interpretation
In the Middle Ages, artists had a firm tradition of craftsmanship, which was supported by clients such as the church, the nobility and later the bourgeoisie. The portrayal of painter and buyer or artist and connoisseur already reflects the new humanistic concept of art, which makes the painter dependent on the subjective judgment of an expert. According to Hans Ost it is an "incomprehensible observer" quote: ... with a stupid open mouth, laboriously through his glasses he gazes over the artist's shoulder. This is the connoisseur and amateur, as we later encounter in the circle of Roman antiquarians around Philipp von Stosch .
It is uncertain whether the painter is, as is often assumed, a self-portrait of Bruegel; a portrait of Hieronymus Bosch is also conceivable . His work had a decisive influence on the young Bruegel, and a number of early drawings are in Bosch's fantastic style. An example is The big fish eat the small ones (1556)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Christian Vöhringer: Pieter Bruegel. 1525/30 - 1569, hfullmann 2007 ISBN 978-3-8331-3852-2 p. 9
- ^ Albertina image database accessed on October 30, 2016
- ↑ Hans Ost: The comic in the art history in: The comic in art Ed. Roland Kanz, Böhlau Verlag 2007 ISBN 978-3-412-07206-3 p. 6. f
- ^ Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen: Pieter Bruegel the Elder Ä. around 1525 - 1569. Peasants, fools and demons , Taschen Verlag 1999 ISBN 3-8228-6590-7 p. 21 f.
