The year 2019 marks the 450th anniversary of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's (ca. 1525/1530 - 1569) death. His view on humanity, translated into paintings, drawings and prints takes us back to the second and third quarters of the sixteenth century.
His work covers an extensive number of themes: the rustic and folkloric life, epic (winter) landscapes, seascapes and religious-moralistic or humanistic inspired works. Bruegel was a shrewd observer of the condition humaine, which he processed with his extraordinary technical abilities in a personal manner.
Already since his first known works, and specifically his landscape drawings, Bruegel's work bears witness to a special affection for nature or the world around him. Bruegel makes in the first half of his career the overwhelming nature the subject of various drawings.
