Pieter III Brueghel

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Pieter III Brueghel , also Pieter Breugel or Pieter Bruegel , (* before July 6, 1589 in Antwerp , † around 1640 possibly there), was a Flemish genre painter .

life and work

About the life of Pieter III. Brueghel is little known today. He was a son of the painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder. J. and his wife Elisabeth Goddelet as well as a grandson of Pieter Bruegel the Elder . Ä. His exact date of birth is unknown, but he was baptized on July 6, 1589 in Antwerp. He was trained as a painter by his father; while he was possibly at times a fellow student of the later painter Andries Danielsz. , who from 1599 as an apprentice in the workshop of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. J. is occupied. 1608 was Pieter III. Brueghel was accepted into the Guild of St. Luke in the city of Antwerp, where he was listed under the name of Pieter Brueghel de jonge, schilder . The naming as Pieter Brueghel the Elder J. could perhaps be an indication that the artistic achievements of his grandfather Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Ä. were largely forgotten at this point.

Although Pieter III. Brueghel could now have started his own business if he remained as his employee in his father's workshop. There he was certainly involved in the high production numbers of paintings that repeated popular motifs of his grandfather and father in large numbers and in the most varied of variations. None of the in the workshop of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. J. made pictures can still clearly with Pieter III. Brueghel, so that his work is completely in the dark today. Isolated attempts at attribution, such as two pictures with representations of the Dutch proverbs Dijede nest west, dije weten, offered on January 30, 1998 at Sotheby’s in New York (lot: 72) . Dijen rooft, dije heeten 'Anyone who knows the nest only knows it, but whoever fetches it has it (Der Vogeldieb)' and De put dempen als het kalf verdronken is 'When the calf has drowned, you cover the well' , are currently only speculative and cannot be proven by anything.

The art historian Georges Marlier , who intensively studied the work of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. J. employed, wrote his son Pieter III. Brueghel the invention of some of the subjects that were executed several times in the workshop. These are the representations of The Egg Dance , The Wedding Presents and The Catherine Dance . He does not assign any of the images he has taken on this subject to the artist himself. The art historian Jacqueline Folie , who published Marlier's Brueghel research posthumously, thought it possible, Pieter III. Brueghel was able to assign a representation of a lawyer that was then kept in a private collection in Milan .

Despite various, so far unprovable attempts to ascribe individual works to Pieter III. Brueghel has so far not been recognizable as an independent artist. His work seems to have been completely absorbed in workshop production and has to remain anonymous until further notice until usable documents are found. It is still unclear today whether he or his father was one of the early teachers of the painter Gonzales Coques around 1626/27 .

literature

Footnotes

  1. ^ Klaus Ertz: Brueghel Pieter (1589) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 14, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22754-X , p. 487.
  2. ^ Georges Marlier: Pierre Brueghel le Jeune. Brussels 1969, p. 439, Figure 285.
personal data
SURNAME Brueghel, Pieter III.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breugel, Pieter; Breughel, Pieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish painter
DATE OF BIRTH before July 6, 1589
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH around 1640
Place of death uncertain: Antwerp