The world’s largest-ever exhibition of works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
On show from October 2018 through January 2019, the world’s largest-ever exhibition of works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525/30-1569), complete with sensational loans, presented three-quarters of the Flemish master’s extant paintings and around half of his surviving drawings and prints. Only about 40 paintings by him have come down to us, and 29 of them were displayed in Vienna.
If you missed this extraordinary exhibition or if you want to experience Bruegel again, we have good news for you: the best of Bruegel – his most important works – are always on show in our Picture Gallery!
The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna houses twelve works by him, and thus the world’s largest and most important collection of paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The works include celebrated panels like Peasant Wedding, Children’s Games, Hunters in the Snow and, of course, The Tower of Babel. These and other masterpieces by Bruegel are displayed in the aptly named “Bruegel Gallery” (Gallery X) of the Picture Gallery. This means that the best Bruegels, the heart of the exhibition, continue to be on show in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna.