Artists
Adriaen Brouwer
- Country:
- Belgium
- Birth year:
- 1606
- Death year:
- 1638
Adriaen Brouwer (c. 1606 Oudenaarde-1638 Antwerp) went to Holland in 1622 and possibly studied with a Flemish master in Amsterdam. Frans Hals, with whom Brouwer worked for a considerable length of time in Haarlem, also had a great influence on him. In Haarlem he became a member of the Rhetoricians' Society in 1626. About 1631 Brouwer moved to Antwerp and became a member of the Guild of St. Luke. Here he had contact with Peter Paul Rubens and perhaps Pieter Breughel the Younger and his circle. Brouwer's genre paintings combine the Flemish and the Dutch traditions, as is seen in the way the artist makes his peasant figures more vivid by portraying the range of their emotions. Brouwer concentrated mainly on an anecdotal style, frequently with an elemant of allegory or caricature, and is considered one of the greatest painters of rustic scenes after Pieter Bruegel the Elder. His works include Village Bath, c. 1620-1630, Alte Pinakothek, Munich; The Five Senses, Alte Pinakothek, Munich; and Landscape in Moonlight, c. 1633, Gemaldegalerie, SMPK, Berlin.