Rembrandt (1942)
Rembrandt , later distributed title Ewiger Rembrandt is a German fiction film by Hans Steinhoff from 1942. It deals with the life of the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn .
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During a celebration in his honor, the painter Rembrandt van Rijn was commissioned by Frans Banning Cocq to paint the Amsterdam Rifle Guild. When the rifle guild wanted to be painted together as a group and not individually, Rembrandt initially didn't feel up to the task and wanted to give it back until he had the saving idea of painting the guild as a troop in motion. All the more obsessed, he begins to work, through which he even neglects the ailing Saskia. In the meantime, she has her notary public that her entire assets should be paid out to Rembrandt after her death. After completing the picture, the enthusiastic Rembrandt returns to Saskia with presents. When she was asleep after being short of breath, he left the house to get the opinion of his clients about the picture. They react indignantly because no one feels adequately represented. Rembrandt's furious reaction to the guild's narrow-mindedness is interrupted by the news that he is to come home to the dying Saskia immediately; but also her immediately notified doctor Dr. There is nothing more Tulp can do for her.
Saskia's family are outraged by Saskia's will, and Rembrandt temporarily withdraws to his brother's mill. In the meantime, his housekeeper Geertje Dircx hires the young Hendrickje Stoffels as support ; the art patron Jan Six buys Ujlenburgh from his promissory notes to support Rembrandt. Instead of paying his debts, however, Rembrandt bought Seeghers' paintings from the unsuccessful artist. Geertje can get Rembrandt to paint her naked. When Rembrandt wanted to paint Hendrickje too, Geertje first put her in front of the door, but stayed; instead, Rembrandt sends the angry Geertje out of the house. Soon she and her brother Piet are standing in front of Rembrandt's door to blackmail Rembrandt with the nude portrait. However, they are chased away by Hendrickje, who informs the surprised Rembrandt that she is expecting a child from him. Geertje and her brother, however, do not give up defeat and blacken Rembrandt and Hendrickje to the church that they live together in sin; Hendrickje has to answer to the church council and is ostracized by the Amsterdamers.
When Rembrandt is seized, Hendrickje gives Saskias jewelry off as hers, in order to at least save it from the seizure. Since the proceeds of the foreclosure auction are insufficient to cover Rembrandt's debts, Rembrandt begs Ujlenburgh, who is currently in the process of selling Rembrandt's paintings for a profit, for mercy. Hendrickje comes up with the saving idea of founding an art dealership and employing Rembrandt as her employee. When Ujlenburgh urges the pregnant Hendrickje that the art trade is just a hoax, she collapses and dies a little later. Dr. Tulp comforts the desperate Rembrandt that fate has placed these trials on him because his life is not made of brilliance but of depth.
In old age, Rembrandt and his friend Seeghers make fun of people's materialistic attitudes and want nothing more than to paint. When he finds his dusty night watch in an attic, he realizes that he has not lived in vain.
To the movie
The screenplay by Hans Steinhoff and Kurt Heuser is partly based on the novel Between Hell and Dark by Valerian Tornius . The film was shot from October 18, 1941 to December 1941 in the Ufa studios in Tempelhof and Babelsberg near Berlin and in the Cineton studios in Amsterdam and The Hague. The premiere was on June 19, 1942 in Berlin, Mercedes-Palast Neukölln. The film testing agency gave Rembrandt the title “artistically valuable”.
Reviews
- Lexicon of international film : "Excellent photos and performances, but not free from the influences of the National Socialist cultural control."
- Francis Cortade / Pierre Cadars: History of Film in the Third Reich , 1975: "Richard Angst, one of the best cameramen of the Third Reich, really knew how to get everything out of the refined decorations by Caligari designer Walter Röhrig ."
literature
- Valerian Tornius : Between light and dark. A Rembrandt novel . 9th edition (132nd - 156th thousand). Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1975, 322 pp.
- Ingo Schiweck: "... because we'd rather sit in the cinema than in sackcloth and ashes." The German feature film in the occupied Netherlands 1940–1945 . Münster u. a. 2001, ISBN 978-3-8309-1106-7 .
- Manuel Köppen, Erhard Schütz : Art of Propaganda: Film in the Third Reich . Peter Lang Verlag, Bern u. a., 2nd revised. Edition 2008, pp. 70-75, ISBN 978-3-03911-727-7 .
See also
Web links
- Rembrandt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Rembrandt at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rembrandt. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 23, 2017 .