Rembrandt created the most famous painting in the Netherlands and so many self-portraits than any other artist. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is celebrating the Rembrandt year, and shows everything that he has ever painted.
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350 Years Of Rembrandt
Society in transition
Group portraits were in the 17th century. Century in the Netherlands a common Genre. Nevertheless, The headman of the cloth-makers Guild “(1662) is” in a different way: Rembrandt manages to portray both the Guild members individually, as to bring the viewer to the table. At the same time, it seems, as a fleeting moment to be captured.
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350 Years Of Rembrandt
A Closer Look
In the painting “The anatomy of Dr. Tulp” (1632) portrays Rembrandt Guild of Amsterdam Surgeons. Dr. Tulp, presented to the inquisitive spectators, the function of the Hand. With a clamp, he pulls apart the forearm muscle of the body. The painting, which combines theory and practice, points to the growing importance of the natural Sciences.
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350 Years Of Rembrandt
Movement on the canvas
“The night watch” was created to protect 1642 as a mission work of the Cloveniers Guild (Bush-Guild) for their new hall. Rembrandt works with theatrical effects and uses of light and shadow. He dressed the Guild members in costumes and arranged them in motion. In the Rijksmuseum the painting has a place of honor. For the anniversary, it was restored and fresh.
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350 Years Of Rembrandt
Silence and intimacy
Rembrandt was a sought-after painters in the Golden age in the Netherlands. However, in 1642, there was a break in his work and his life. The death of his wife Saskia, and a financial crisis threw it off course. The late style, which starts as of circa 1651, is different: The brush stroke as in the painting “The Jewish bride” (1667) is broader, the characters and the scenes seem more intimate.
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350 Years Of Rembrandt
Realistic Look
Few painters made so many self-portraits as Rembrandt. He was the dearest model, and worked up in old age with a mirror. He presented the painting in front of the easel, or as an Apostle. The 80 Selfies created as part of commissions and were very popular among customers.
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350 Years Of Rembrandt
Early Self-Portraits
The early self-portraits are studies of the master different facial practiced expressions and different techniques. The first self-portrait (see picture) was born in 1628. With these works, he developed a brand. Buyer bought an authentic work of Rembrandt, but one, to see where the artist himself was. So Rembrandt was early on as an entrepreneur.
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350 Years Of Rembrandt
Biblical Themes
Deep darkness surrounds painted the protagonists of the painting of “Joseph and the wife of Potiphar,” the Rembrandt in 1655. It’s going to be a lie over a sexual event that has not taken place. Potiphar believes his wife’s indiscretion to be discovered. But the seduction of your servant Joseph has failed. On the bottom of the coat, the woman pulled out the fleeing Joseph.
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350 Years Of Rembrandt
Society in transition
Group portraits were in the 17th century. Century in the Netherlands a common Genre. Nevertheless, The headman of the cloth-makers Guild “(1662) is” in a different way: Rembrandt manages to portray both the Guild members individually, as to bring the viewer to the table. At the same time, it seems, as a fleeting moment to be captured.
-
350 Years Of Rembrandt
A Closer Look
In the painting “The anatomy of Dr. Tulp” (1632) portrays Rembrandt Guild of Amsterdam Surgeons. Dr. Tulp, presented to the inquisitive spectators, the function of the Hand. With a clamp, he pulls apart the forearm muscle of the body. The painting, which combines theory and practice, points to the growing importance of the natural Sciences.
-
350 Years Of Rembrandt
Movement on the canvas
“The night watch” was created to protect 1642 as a mission work of the Cloveniers Guild (Bush-Guild) for their new hall. Rembrandt works with theatrical effects and uses of light and shadow. He dressed the Guild members in costumes and arranged them in motion. In the Rijksmuseum the painting has a place of honor. For the anniversary, it was restored and fresh.
-
350 Years Of Rembrandt
Silence and intimacy
Rembrandt was a sought-after painters in the Golden age in the Netherlands. However, in 1642, there was a break in his work and his life. The death of his wife Saskia, and a financial crisis threw it off course. The late style, which starts as of circa 1651, is different: The brush stroke as in the painting “The Jewish bride” (1667) is broader, the characters and the scenes seem more intimate.
-
350 Years Of Rembrandt
Realistic Look
Few painters made so many self-portraits as Rembrandt. He was the dearest model, and worked up in old age with a mirror. He presented the painting in front of the easel, or as an Apostle. The 80 Selfies created as part of commissions and were very popular among customers.
-
350 Years Of Rembrandt
Early Self-Portraits
The early self-portraits are studies of the master different facial practiced expressions and different techniques. The first self-portrait (see picture) was born in 1628. With these works, he developed a brand. Buyer bought an authentic work of Rembrandt, but one, to see where the artist himself was. So Rembrandt was early on as an entrepreneur.
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350 Years Of Rembrandt
Biblical Themes
Deep darkness surrounds painted the protagonists of the painting of “Joseph and the wife of Potiphar,” the Rembrandt in 1655. It’s going to be a lie over a sexual event that has not taken place. Potiphar believes his wife’s indiscretion to be discovered. But the seduction of your servant Joseph has failed. On the bottom of the coat, the woman pulled out the fleeing Joseph.
He was a genius and an impressive and innovative. Rembrandt stood up to his death in 1669, in front of the easel. He died on 4. October 350 years ago in Amsterdam. The Netherlands take advantage of the anniversary to celebrate the most famous painters of their Golden age with a firework of exhibitions. With the biggest event in the dance of the Rijksmuseum shines. It has not only the largest and most representative collection of Rembrandt’s paintings, including masterpieces such as “The night watch” and “The headman of the cloth-makers Guild”, but also its most beautiful drawings and etchings.
The title of the exhibition “All of Rembrandt’s” from the 15. February is to be seen in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, sounds like a Blockbuster, as the Netherlands has not yet seen. As good as all the show-pieces of his work are on Display. 22 paintings, arranged by topic, an Overview of his work. The climax is, of course, guard the most famous painting in the Netherlands: “The night”.
The most famous image of the Netherlands: “The night watch” by Rembrandt
Rembrandt is more than a painter
Rembrandt Harmeneszoon van Rijn, was born in 1609 in Leiden as the son of a Miller in the light of the world, created and tirelessly works that are experimental and technically innovative, that they today still have the modern.
Rembrandt told with his paintings, and also stories. Especially the biblical templates as Isaac and Rebekah (ca 1665 to 1669) and the self-portrait as the Apostle Paulus (1661), he leaves through the representation of Gestures and emotions as human. Also, the use of light and colour effects he pushes you to a new championship. “Rembrandt had stitches and a large collection of copper. Nachstiche famous masters, of Raphael, of Titian, Michelangelo, Carracci. Just the artists of the 16th century. Century from Italy, have inspired him, and if Rembrandt himself creates a work of art, he has the art of story in my head and trying to make it even better,” says Gregor Weber, Rembrandt expert at the Rijksmuseum, also wore three years ago, the until then little-known late work, in Amsterdam for a brilliant exhibition.
Holy look like people: Rembrandt The incredulity of Saint Thomas paintings “”
Rembrandt painted an astonishing number of self-portraits
Rembrandt was himself the dearest model. He painted up to his death. More often than any artist before him. Again and again. “I don’t know why he did it. I can only assume that he was busy with himself. He used the simplest model, all sorts of things to try out,” says Gregor Weber.
Rembrandt-self-portrait as an etching
Eighty self-portraits in Oil on canvas and graphics – created in about forty years. The motif of the Self-watching was early on his subject. Rembrandt used a mirror. He looked like a Stranger, studied tirelessly, as the light sculpted his face model. He painted the Painting, he painted himself as a Prince, or he slipped into the role of the Apostle Paul: With the open manuscript of the gospel before he looks out of the side of the painting. What a landscape this face: deep wrinkles zerfurchen his forehead. The eyebrow ends in a black spot, which consists of nothing more than of the priming of the canvas, the nose – thick as a potato – and- wins three-dimensionality through the bright point at the top. The older he gets, the more ruthless he is looking at the age spots, the puffy skin, the greying of hair. Other paintings appear unfinished, because he works with cut-outs and hints. Do not carry him to the call, to paint his paintings finished. Even with the pallet knife, he scrapes color from the canvas.
Branding – building a brand
“These pieces found a buyer, because they ‘were Rembrandt of Rembrandt,'” says Weber. A double strike: “A buyer not only got a painting of Rembrandt, he also got another one with a likeness of the famous master, Rembrandt.” The production of these paintings with the help of his workshop acts as a precursor of the Factory, the Pop Art artist Andy Warhol. The self-portraits represent what makes Marketing to the core of a good brand: recognizability and simplicity. And they are also a Testament to Rembrandt’s ingenious entrepreneurship. “He sets a brand character, as a an entrepreneur, it makes today. And he is also a true, brutally true, as he changed in the course of life, and how he slips into new roles. This is very nice to see, how he dressed, how he is as a Prince or as the Apostle Paul.”
On his last self-portrait of Rembrandt looks older than 63 years. Even as a gnarled old with a shaggy Beard, he continues his search for the essence of reality. Rembrandt’s works are reminiscent of the Ticking of the time – and leave it at the same time, forget it.
Watch of the night as a turning point
In his life, Rembrandt has a lot of suffering. The year in which he painted the famous painting “The night watch”, heralds a turning point: 1642 dies, his beloved wife Saskia, already three children had died. Only the son of Titus. To him, Rembrandt takes care of a particularly affectionate and declares him his heir. However, Titus died three years before his father. The housekeeper is suing him for broken vows. In the end, he is involved in 25 lawsuits. The financial bankruptcy is inevitable. He is forced to separate from his private art collection and his encyclopaedic collection of globes, coins, musical instruments, stones, and weapons. “If you look at the Oeuvre, one realizes that he has spent with the night’s watch. It is a giant canvas, in which he puts all things are pure, what it can do. He then, apparently, a crisis, because in the years that followed, he painted hardly any portraits. He is a seeker.”
Self-portrait as an old man
Rembrandt in front of the Burnout? What is the view into the abyss with one from a successfull artist such as Rembrandt? “He reinvents himself”, is Weber’s answer. Rembrandt is released from the strict conventions of the portrait and history painting of the Golden age. 1651, he is 46 years of age, he is freed and with a new vigor to the canvas.
New Techniques
Little idealizing the portrait faces to be seen in the late work. Her gaze is usually turned inward, as in the case of the old reading woman who looks lost in a book. Rembrandt depicts in Close-up: her wise face is illuminated by a light that the book shines. Lips, nose, and chin emerge so vividly that you think you can handle it. The Background, however, he suggests only as a dark atmosphere. “He is in the style of another, and experimenting more now. The Sturm und Drang Phase of the past, where he laid emphasis on action in the picture, is over. He returns the action inward and contemplative,” says Weber.
The stroke is fine time coarse, time. From this free kind of a large trust in the viewer: an appeal to the imagination, to think of the Unfinished end to speak. As he painted in 1656, is the “Anatomical lecture of Dr Deyman”, he dares to have an unusual composition, which is so realistic that the tender could be strung bad. The viewer to see the surgeon Dr. Deyman, as he is the brain of a corpse are cut. The eye of the viewer to the dirty feet is passed directly into the open abdominal cavity of the deceased. “It must be so, as reality dictates it is: blatant and true. Nothing schönt Rembrandt for a Client.”