Adriaen Brouwer
Sign in to saveAlso known as Adriaan Brouwer, Adriaen Browers, Adrian Brower, Adrianus Brauwer, L. Brauwer, Adrian Braura, Adriaen Brouwers, Adriaen Brouwyer
Flemish painter (1605-1638)
Key facts
- Born
- c. 1605/1606, Oudenaarde , Belgium
- Died
- January 1638, Antwerp , Belgium
- Known for
- Painting
- Movement
- Baroque
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Brouwer
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Southern Netherlands
- Place of birth
- Oudenaarde
- Place of death
- Antwerp
- Occupation
- visual artist
- Field of work
- painting
- Genre
- portrait
- Movement
- Baroque
- Image
- Portrait of Adriaen Brouwer by Anthony van Dyck.jpg
- Work location
- Paris
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- described by source
- Teutsche Academie der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste
- Commons category
- Adriaen Brouwer
- date of death
- 1638-01-01
- date of birth
- 1603-01-01
- Commons Creator page
- Adriaen Brouwer
- Commons gallery
- Adriaen Brouwer
- cause of death
- plague
- place of burial
- Antwerp
- has works in the collection
- Alte Pinakothek
- ethnic group
- Flemish people
- manner of death
- natural causes
Sources (8)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Adriaen Brouwer, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
![[A man reading]](https://api.europeana.eu/thumbnail/v2/url.json?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdiglib.hab.de%2Fvaria%2Fhaum%2Fwaumans-c-ab3-0006%2Fmax%2F000001.jpg&type=IMAGE)
[A man reading]
The Smith 's Forge
![[Left: Portrait of a laughing peasant with his eyes closed, his head tilted and turned to the right; Portrait of a laughing peasant woman with a hood, her head in her neck; Heads of Peasants and Country-Women]](https://api.europeana.eu/thumbnail/v2/url.json?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdiglib.hab.de%2Fvaria%2Fhaum%2Fbrouwer-a-ab3-0012%2Fmax%2F000001.jpg&type=IMAGE)
[Left: Portrait of a laughing peasant with his eyes closed, his head tilted and turned to the right; Portrait of a laughing peasant woman with a hood, her head in her neck; Heads of Peasants and Country-Women]
The bitter potion
host house scene
“Funny, spun, sing gesellen”
Laughing farmer
Farmer with child and cat
Rising card players in a donation
Tabificum frustra clamas
Farmer with jug and glass; reading peasant woman
The bitter potion
The Seven Dead Sins: Pigritia
“T sa vriende al te saem...”
Man cracking a louse
Sleeping peasant
Money counting man
Farmer with glass and bottle
Fureur Bacchique
The bitter potion
Two Farmers
Three Farmers at the Window
A drunk peasant
Brawl over dice
Le Bon Mari
Farmer with bottle and glass, laughing farmer
Unpleasant father duties
Sleeping peasant
Farmers at the meal
Reading farmer
Landscape with ball players
Reading (singing) farmer
Le Bon Mari
School
Man with big hat, holding a jug
Singing peasant
~13 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Adriaen Brouwer (c. 1605 – January 1638) was a Flemish painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the first half of the 17th century. Brouwer was an important innovator of genre painting through his vivid depictions of peasants, soldiers and other "lower class" individuals engaged in drinking, smoking, card or dice playing, fighting, music making etc. in taverns or rural settings. Brouwer contributed to the development of the genre of tronies, i.e. head or facial studies, which investigate varieties of expression. In his final year he produced a few landscapes of a tragic intensity. Brouwer's work had an important influence on the next generation of Flemish and Dutch genre painters. Although Brouwer produced only a small body of work, Dutch masters Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt collected it.
Life
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