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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Painter
Artists series
The "Artists" series is an introduction to the lives and works of great masters of painting. Each film presents a particular painter, and takes an enjoyable and instructive look at the sources of modernity in art.
Director(s): Michaël Gaumnitz
Genre
Documentary
Copyright
1998
Length
26 minutes
Producer(s)
Esther Hoffenberg, Lapsus Production
Co-producer(s)
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, La Cinquième, Musée du Louvre, Arion Média, avec le soutien du Ministère de l’Education Nationale et du Ministère de la Culture
Selections / Awards
Nominated for the "7 d'Or" awards, 1999
Little is known about the painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder, who left us a mysterious and surprising work of great richness. This film is an invitation into a world of fantasy and reality, folly and rationality, in which the key word is liberty.
Available for sale on the publisher's website.