A little strange it is to commit the death years of famous people: What is there in the death to celebrate? Rembrandt died 350 years ago, on 4. October, 1669, in Amsterdam and a major exhibition pays tribute to him on this occasion. Finally, the painter, draughtsman, engraver the Netherlands, what is Leonardo da Vinci for Italy is: a figure of identification for all generations.
So the people flock to the monstrous construction of the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, which promises to be big banners, “All of Rembrandt”, to be more precise: all that the Museum with its world’s largest Rembrandt-has collection. The are 22 paintings from various phases, 60 rarely seen drawings and 1300 etchings, of which the best 300 of deductions are now shown. For many of the engravings with a magnifying glass would be helpful, they are hardly bigger than a postage stamp, so they have a Format that is generally considered to be non-hinged. That does not bother the visitors, patiently stand in any room before the little picture.
And be rewarded. What Rembrandt elicited the paper, is quite large theatre. So humble this artist occurred, so much wanted, and he reached it: all the feelings, the beautiful like the difficult; all walks of life, the riches, the poverty, the disease, such as young love. Every he takes in the view, the best always, and the beggars, the children and the old men, the Amsterdam-drinkers and the biblical heroes.
sympathy for the Weak
The result is a social world panorama, an almost journalistic chronicle of the life is – is so extraordinarily touching, because their Creator can be touch by what he saw and experienced. Since this is with only a few spring-cut in a child who sees a pancake Baker at the street edge lines. The water runs to him in the mouth, which is actually not present. Rembrandt but manage it. In the fast dash he is, what drives a character white. And this is a greedy guy, that would grab the Baker loves to be in the dough.
at All, the children. The 1606-born son of a Miller seems to remember exactly how it feels when one is small and other to decide on a. On a ink drawing of Abraham sends his mistress, Hagar, because his wife, Sarah, want to the. Hagar rejects for the last Time on his shoulder; their son Ishmael insecure next to it and seems to be in front of the blessing gesture of his father’s back, betrayed him. Also his dog is the head.
Rembrandt sympathizes with the Weak, therefore, must and will have, no Customer asked. Leper he shows not as a Monster, rather than Battered, which do not hold their fellow-men with long sticks considerate on distance, so that the plug in. All of the artists there and no one to ridicule. He laughs with people, not above them. Even a woman in their own filth on the way, doing this in the case of Rembrandt.
in the first hall looks at the artist as a sleepy dude.
As a “rebel” want him to know the show’s curators understood. May be. However, Rembrandt was in his three and a half centuries of afterlife. The princes of the 18th century. Century were his works as trophies. And the history animated 19. Century celebrated him as a history painter and master etcher, and then nationalist Association. In the 80s of the 20th century. Century interested in the man from Suffering, especially as an entrepreneur. It was also relevant because the Amsterdam-based Rembrandt Research Project, made numerous false attributions to sort out from the corpus of handwritten works, and again the workshop of the master.
This process of clarification is the understanding of this art important, especially as market forces have still to counteract (especially a dealer wants to re-discovered a Rembrandt””). However, this view can be narrow, if it is the only view, also: Rembrandt, with its multifaceted beauty full of biographical ruptures is much more than just a businessman, and his art is not only a connoisseur of something.
in this respect, Rembrandt’s works, it is good to be now with a fresh point of view. They are so ambiguous that each Generation can find new in you again. Rembrandt offers his audience his own face as a mirror. This is his favorite Subject, he shows, it is not surprising, and annoying, without being ashamed for his bulbous nose and pasty skin. Finally, he embellished also other models.
see Honest and sad
in the first room of the artist as a sleepy dude. The fluffy, Out-of-bed-hairstyle has applied to the drawings with a thick brush; at the age of 20, he seeks only to capture the Moment. At the same time he is playing in an oil Painting with light and shadow. Almost in the dark, the eyes of this self-portraits are and to get in touch with the people in front of the frame. Later, he dressed in ancient costumes, slips in biblical roles. His subject is the human ability to change.
his sweetheart waiting in front of the easel. His mother appears as a tired matron, his son Titus as a monk. And his first wife, Saskia in the old Testament, Esther, the Saint Catherine is. Then you are ill, the game is over. So honestly how sad Rembrandt shows the suffering woman in your house.
Gehenkter dissected
The next restoration, may be interesting to you, is the the “night watch” in the Rijksmuseum. No plant has in the low countries, as important as the action portrait of the shooting Guild Amsterdam from 1642. The Museum has opted for transparency, and the restoration is transferred from 2020 in the live stream.
The dynamics, which send the “the night watch” with their various and drum men, and the astonished child exudes, announces in Rembrandt’s painting earlier. In 1632, he brings a round of doctors in the movement. Under the guidance of the anatomist Nicolaes Tulp dissect them, wide-eyed, the corpse of a hanged man. Actually, Rembrandt wanted to show him without a right Hand, which had been denied to him because of past crimes amputated. This was probably not realistic. So the destruction of the body remained in the picture Tulps privilege.
Pale is the criminal here, and yet he seems to have only just exhaled. He remains a man, even long after his death and that of his painter.
All of Rembrandt: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. To 10. 6. Rembrandt’s Network: Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 01.03.2019, 18:53 Uhr
