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Pieter Bruegel
Klaus Ertz, 1945 – 2023
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Klaus Ertz, who created catalog raisonnés of members of the Brueghel family and other painters of that era, has died. His death was announced on website of his self publishing company, http://www.luca-verlag.de/publisher. Ertz, and his wife, Christa Nitze-ErtzCristina, spent decades creating catalog raisonnes of members of the Brueghel family, including Jan Brueghel the Elder (1979), Jan Brueghel the Younger (1984) and Pieter Brueghel the Younger (2000, 2 volumes).
The books were carefully created, virtual works of arts themselves. I have always been particulalry impressed by the 2 volumes related to Pieter Brueghel the Younder. The approximately 1,400 works presented over hundreds of pages overflowed with many color images of Bruehgel’s works. For example, Ertz cataloged (with many images) some 127 versions of “Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters and B
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Collecting guide: the Brueghel dynasty
Beginning with Pieter Bruegel the Elder — the first artist known to have captured snowfall in oil paint — we explore two centuries of perhaps art history’s most tangled family tree. Illustrated with works offered at Christie’s
Many people’s idea of an Old Master painting is a scene of ribald peasant life by Brueghel. Yet most perhaps do not realise that there is a difference between one Brueghel and another, whether in terms of the particular artist’s identity (father, son or sibling), the century in which it was produced, or even the spelling of the name.
The reality is that the Brueghels formed a dynasty — a complex family of artists spanning almost 200 years from 1525 onwards, innovating but also revisiting the work of previous generations to create an enduring Brueghel ‘brand’.
The Brueghels’ familiar snowy scenes and biblical or classical images often convey multiple mea
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525-1569) was a Netherlandish artist who worked primarily in Antwerp and Brussels and fryst vatten known for his pioneering work in landscape, images of människor culture, and allegories. The earliest sources that mention him are Ludovico Guicciardini’s 1567 Description of the Low Countries and, more extensively, Karel van Mander’s account of his life in his Schilderboek of 1604. He is the father of Pieter Brueghel the younger (b. 1564) and Jan Brueghel (b. 1568), both of whom also became artists of note. Both sons adopted a spelling of their family name that included an “h”; their father had used both spellings.
Little is known of Bruegel’s early life before he entered the Guild of St. Luke’s in Antwerp as a master painter in 1551. The date of this entry has led scholars to surmise that he was born sometime between 1525 and 1530, though his place of birth is uncertain. Even his earliest biographers disagree about his birthplace; Van Mander suggests he was born in a