The first ever retrospective of Pieter Bruegel the Elder was the most successful exhibition project of the Vienna Museum of art history

the Exposition, which since October 2, 2018-го on 13 January this year, visited many of the public, revealed that exhibition space at the Museum of art history is not enough. Those wishing to visit for the first 450 years a monographic exhibition of Pieter Bruegel the Elder was much more than tickets, which were sold out long before the end of the exhibition. And it is clear. For the first time in one place have collected 30 of the 40 surviving paintings and 60 of the known 130 drawings and prints. Many of the works did not leave their museums hundreds of years. For the first time in the Museum's exhibition gathered four of the five surviving paintings from the series "the seasons" (the work of "Harvest" in view of its great brittleness are not released for the exhibition the Metropolitan Museum of art). In addition to the Viennese museums (and the Museum of the history of art has the world's largest collection of works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder — 12 paintings), the exhibits to the exhibition dalí museums and private collectors from Berlin, Prague, Antwerp, Rome, Madrid, London and Rotterdam.

the Director General of the Vienna Museum of art history Sabine Haag, summing up the show, reported that it was the most visited exhibition in the history of the Museum, but the Museum cost to expand the exhibition area for future similar projects. By Bruegel tickets were sold via the Internet to the familiar system of sessions, when a fixed time interval (in Vienna it was 20 minutes) to the Museum run a certain number of people. If you roughly divide the number of attending spectators by the number of days that it was, we get the approximate throughput of over 4 000 people a day. For comparison: all of us commemorative exhibition of Ivan Aivazovsky in the Tretyakov gallery when I first was introduced sessions, attended by almost 600 thousand people — about 5 thousand a day.

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: monopol-magazin.de, insidebruegel.net, news.artnet.com, vogue.ua, artinvestment.ru