The Miracle in the Snow – Pieter Bruegel the Elder 2019-2020

It’s snowing! The exhibition ‹The Miracle in the Snow – Pieter Bruegel the Elder› in the Oskar Reinhart Collection ‹Am Römerholz› focuses on the first painting in European art that captured falling snowflakes. The Adoration of the Kings in the Snow is the only artwork by Bruegel in a public art collection in Switzerland. Being one of the most important Flemish painters of the 16th century, Pieter Bruegel revolutionised art by his innovative thematic and pictorial solutions and became an inspiration for subsequent generations of artists. Rarely displayed prints and recent technological discoveries try to trace the secret of his paintings’ enduring and fascinating immediacy. The cabinet exhibition was realised together with an international team of experts and is the result of a collaboration with the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien.