Tip: Rembrandt successor exhibition in the Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg
"In Rembrandt's footsteps" - spring exhibition with original Rembrandt prints and paintings by his successors in the Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg - with loans from the Hoogsteder Museum Foundation in The Hague (English / Italiano / Français / Español / Nederlands / Deutsch)
Exhibition opening: on February 22nd at 5 p.m. in the Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg - unfortunately the duration of the exhibition has not yet been announced by the museum!
Heidelberg. In a Heidelberg exhibition, visitors can follow in Rembrandt's footsteps in art through numerous works of art. His artistic genius and his works had a long-lasting impact. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669), known by his first name Rembrandt, was portrayed as an elderly gentleman in a painting from 1716. The artist Daniël de Koninck (1668-1720) never met Rembrandt - that's right - because he was only 1 year old when the most famous painter and graphic artist in European history died. In the Heidelberg exhibition, Rembrandt's influence on his contemporaries, students and successors is illustrated in a large number of paintings and graphics. It will certainly be an impressive art show, which was realized together with the Hoogsteder Museum Foundation in Den Hague. - Due to the still prevailing and complicated problem of attributing originals and copies to Rembrandt or his students, imitators and copyists, the exhibition is a MUST for every art historian!!!
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Timeless source of inspiration for students, followers and copyists
Around the middle of the 17th century, a change took place in the Amsterdam art market. People looked to France, where classical antiquity found its way into art. The fine brushwork and bright colors resulted in clearer compositions.
A "new style" that was clearly freed from Rembrandt's impasto, free style of painting. Rembrandt's works were less in demand, his emotions and clear realism were "outdated". His students also experienced the fresh change in artistic taste that influenced them.
Rembrandt experienced economic decline. Nevertheless, his fame was unbroken and, as the exhibition will show, his "heavy" works became an inspiration for subsequent generations of artists.
Young artists copied the master and used his works as models for their own compositions. This is how many contemporary copies of paintings and numerous reproduction engravings came into circulation.
Rembrandt's works posthumously conquered all of Europe and his style of painting lived on among his students and in the works of other portrait and history painters.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669) and his students
He is internationally regarded as the most important Dutch artist of the Baroque era. His works were created in the era of the so-called "Golden Age" of the Netherlands, a political, economic and - due to the commissions and the strong demand from a now financially well-off society for works of art for one's own home or for public representation - also an artistic heyday. The Netherlands became a maritime and trading power and the wealthy middle class ordered many works of art from the numerous talented painters on the growing Dutch art market.
Contemporaries, students and successors produced high-quality paintings and graphics. Around eighty works of art are presented in the Heidelberg exhibition alongside some original etchings by Rembrandt. An extraordinary perspective on Rembrandt's artistic work is discussed, which highlights the star of art history, who trained over 50 students in his workshop from 1634, a large number of whom probably remained true to the master's painting style.
To this day, there are still questions here and there about the attribution of some works of art from this workshop, because Rembrandt sold both his own works and those of his students - if they met his quality standards.
Rembrandt's influence is probably illustrated abundantly in this exhibition
Among the artists from Rembrandt's environment are big names such as Arent de Gelder, Govaert Flinck, Jan Lievens, Ferdinand Bol and, much later, Daniël de Koninck.
The paintings by these artists are among those on loan from the Hoogsteder Museum Foundation in the Heidelberg exhibition.
"With treasures from the Rembrandt House in Amsterdam, from private collections in Heidelberg and from the collection of the Kurpfälzisches Museum, the exhibition offers a unique artistic enjoyment," says the museum's press release.
In Rembrandt's footsteps
in the
Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg
Exhibition opening on February 22nd at 5 p.m
Duration of the exhibition: has not yet been announced
The large spring exhibition of paintings by the Hoogsteder Museum Foundation will be ceremoniously opened in the Galerie der Moderne.
program
- Welcome Frieder Hepp, Director of the Kurpfälzisches Museum
- Greetings Willem Jan Hoogsteder Hoogsteder Museum Foundation, The Hague
- Introduction Karin Tebbe exhibition curator Kurpfälzisches Museum
- Opening Martina Pfister, Mayor of the City of Heidelberg
WEBSITE: www.museum-heidelberg.de
Opening hours
- Tuesday to Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m
- open on all public holidays
- closed on March 4th and May 1st, 2025
