Artist

Pieter Coecke van Aelst

1502–1550 · born in Aalst · died in Brussels

Pieter Coecke van Aelst was a Flemish painter, designer and writer born in Aalst in 1502. He designed tapestries and stained glass and was the teacher, and later the father-in-law, of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. He died in Brussels in 1550.