Rembrandt

In 2006 400 years will have passed since the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) was born. Statens Museum for Kunst will mark the occasion with an important exhibition on one of the greatest painters in art history. The exhibition is the first one in Denmark showing paintings, prints and drawings by Rembrandt.

The show will give an exciting impression of Rembrandt's fascinating life and work. With loans of about 15 genuine Rembrandt paintings supplemented by the museum's fine collection of the master's work on paper the exhibition will span his total oeuvre. All Rembrandt's motifs are concerned with man, the interior and the exterior of man. Precisely his ability to describe man was the reason why he was called the "Painter of Soul". Through works by Rembrandt's pupils and artists in the circle around him the exhibition demonstrates the enormous influence Rembrandt had on his contemporaries in the Dutch Golden Age.

New and conclusive research will be presented in the exhibition. In co-operation with international experts the museum staff have examined the works in the museum collection earlier ascribed to Rembrandt. Who produced the works, if not the master himself? And who were the artists in the circle around Rembrandt?

Museum Curator and Senior Researcher Eva de la Fuente Pedersen as well as Researcher and Museum Curator Lene Bøgh Rønberg are curating the exhibition. It was created in co-operation with Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, the Mauritshuis in the Hague and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Besides, leading museums like The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and The National Gallery in London have contributed with important loans to the exhibition.

The exhibition is donated by A.P. Møller og Hustru Chastine Mc-Kinney Møllers Fond til almene Formaal.

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Rembrandt? The Master and his Workshop
Rembrandt Jahr 2006