The young Rembrandt - Rising Star

The exhibition The Young Rembrandt - Rising Star ( Dutch Jonge Rembrandt - Rising Star , English Young Rembrandt - Rising Star ) will take place from November 2, 2019 to February 9, 2020 at Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden , the Netherlands and from February 27 to 7. June 2020 at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford , UK . According to Museum De Lakenhal, the exhibition is the first major exhibition devoted exclusively to the artist's early work.

exhibition

Almost 400 years after its creation, numerous works by Rembrandt, created during his Leiden period, are returning to the city of his birth for the exhibition. The exhibition includes around forty paintings, seventy etchings and ten drawings by Rembrandt, as well as some works by his teacher Jacob Isaacsz. van Swanenburgh and Pieter Lastman , his friend and colleague Jan Lievens , and other painters. The works cover the first ten years of Rembrandt's artistic activity, from 1624 to 1634.

“The young Rembrandt - Rising Star” was curated by staff from two museums, the art historian and former director of the Ashmolean Museum Christopher Brown, and the curators Christiaan Vogelaar from Museum De Lakenhal and An Van Camp from the Ashmolean Museum. The exhibition is part of a series of events celebrating the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt's death in 2019 by institutions such as the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the Museum Het Rembrandthuis in Amsterdam and the Mauritshuis in The Hague. For Museum De Lakenhal, it is the first major exhibition after extensive renovations and the opening of a new wing in June 2019.

background

After eight years of schooling in Leiden , Rembrandt began studying at the philosophical faculty of the University of Leiden in 1624 , which he broke off after a short time. In 1620 he began a three and a half year training with Jacob Isaacsz. van Swanenburgh, who was trained in Italy and is known for his depictions of hell . It is possible that Rembrandt learned from him the play with light and shadow that later characterized his work. In 1624 Rembrandt went to Amsterdam to study with Pieter Lastman . Although this second apprenticeship lasted only half a year, Lastman had a greater artistic influence on Rembrandt than van Swanenburgh. In 1625 Rembrandt returned to Leiden and founded a workshop together with his friend and colleague Jan Lievens. In 1631 he moved to Amsterdam, where he married Saskia van Uylenburgh in July 1634 .

Works in the exhibition (selection)

title	Artist	Emergence	Procedure and format	Catalog raisonné	Collection, place
The glasses seller (seeing)	Rembrandt	1624/1625	Oil on oak, 21.0 × 17.8 cm	Corpus 1	Museum De Lakenhal , Leiden, Netherlands
Let the children come to me	Rembrandt	around 1625	Oil on canvas (relined), 103.5 × 86 cm	-	Art trade (London or Amsterdam)
History painting with self-portrait of the painter	Rembrandt	1626	Oil on oak, 90.1 × 121.3 cm	Corpus 7	Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, Netherlands
Portrait of an Old Man (Rembrandt's Father)	Rembrandt	1627/1630	Red and black chalk on paper, 18.9 × 24.0 cm	-	Ashmolean Museum , Oxford, England
Self-portrait as a young man	Rembrandt	1628	Oil on oak, 22.6 × 18.7 cm	Corpus 20	Rijksmuseum Amsterdam , Netherlands
Group in an interior	Rembrandt	circa 1628	Oil on oak, 19.7 × 25.4 cm	Corpus 22	National Gallery of Ireland , Dublin, Ireland
The meal at Emmaus	Rembrandt	1629	Oil on paper, mounted on wood, 37.4 × 42.3 cm	Corpus 25	Musée Jacquemart-André , Paris, France
Samson and Delilah	Rembrandt	1629/1630	Oil on oak, 61.3 × 50.1 cm	Corpus 37	Gemäldegalerie , Berlin
Jeremiah laments the destruction of Jerusalem	Rembrandt	1630	Oil on oak, 58.0 × 46.0 cm	Corpus 39	Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands
Self-portrait with a hat and an open mouth	Rembrandt	1630	Etching, 5.2 × 4.7 cm	B 320	Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England
The praise of Simeon	Rembrandt	1631	Oil on panel, 60.9 × 47.8 cm	Corpus 47	Mauritshuis , The Hague, Netherlands
Rape of Proserpine	Rembrandt	1631	Oil on panel, 84.8 × 79.7 cm	Corpus 49	Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
The kidnapping of the Europa	Rembrandt	1632	Oil on oak, 64.6 × 78.7 cm	Corpus 50	J. Paul Getty Museum , Los Angeles, USA
Man in oriental clothes	Rembrandt	1632	Oil on canvas, 152.7 × 111.1 cm	Corpus 84	Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City, USA

Web links

Museum De Lakenhal en Ashmolean Museum presenteren: Jonge Rembrandt - Rising Star , website of Museum De Lakenhal (Dutch, English version )

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Museum De Lakenhal en Ashmolean Museum presenteren: Jonge Rembrandt - Rising Star , website of Museum De Lakenhal (Dutch, English version ), accessed on October 6, 2019.
^ Ernst van de Wetering: Rembrandt, a biography. In: Gemäldegalerie der Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Ed.): Rembrandt. Genius in search. DuMont Literature and Art, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-8321-7694-2 , pp. 21–49.
^ Stichting Foundation Rembrandt Research Project (ed.): A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings. VI. Rembrandt's Paintings Revisited. A Complete Survey . Springer Science + Business Media, Dordrecht 2015, ISBN 978-94-017-9173-1 .
^ Adam von Bartsch : Catalog raisonné de toutes les estampes qui forment l'oeuvre de Rembrandt, et ceux de ses principaux imitateurs, 2 vols . A Blumauer, Vienna 1797, plant 320, digitized .

[MDL-1] Museum De Lakenhal en Ashmolean Museum presenteren: Jonge Rembrandt - Rising Star , website of Museum De Lakenhal (Dutch, English version ), accessed on October 6, 2019.

[2] Ernst van de Wetering: Rembrandt, a biography. In: Gemäldegalerie der Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Ed.): Rembrandt. Genius in search. DuMont Literature and Art, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-8321-7694-2 , pp. 21–49.

[3] Stichting Foundation Rembrandt Research Project (ed.): A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings. VI. Rembrandt's Paintings Revisited. A Complete Survey . Springer Science + Business Media, Dordrecht 2015, ISBN 978-94-017-9173-1 .

[4] Adam von Bartsch : Catalog raisonné de toutes les estampes qui forment l'oeuvre de Rembrandt, et ceux de ses principaux imitateurs, 2 vols . A Blumauer, Vienna 1797, plant 320, digitized .