Adriaen Brouwer

(1605–1638) flamländsk målare

Adriaen Brouwer (1605–1638) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a printmaker. By year of birth, Adriaen Brouwer belongs to the chapter ‘The Baroque’ in this site’s history of art.

Adriaen Brouwer was born in Oudenaarde and died in Antwerp. Adriaen Brouwer worked in Antwerp, Amsterdam, Haarlem, and Amsterdam. Wikidata associates Adriaen Brouwer with Baroque. Adriaen Brouwer became a member of Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke.

The best-known works include ‘A Fat Man’, ‘Poor Folk Drinking in a Tavern’, ‘Peasant Brawl’, and ‘Village Barber's Shop’. The works belong mainly to the genres genre painting, landscape painting, and portrait. The catalogue has 148 works by Adriaen Brouwer with free images. The dated works span the years 1601–1700. Works by Adriaen Brouwer are held by several collections, among them Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Gemäldegalerie, Wellcome Collection, and Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz collection. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘The Baroque’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Palamedes Palamedesz, Lodewyk de Vadder, Andrea Bolgi, Francesco Maffei, and Joos van Craesbeeck.

• The Baroque
• The Smokers by Adriaen Brouwer