Rembrandt's graphic world

The exhibition Rembrandt's graphic world. Experiment. Competition. Virtuosity took place from October 3, 2019 to January 12, 2020 at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud in Cologne . The occasion of the exhibition was the 350th anniversary of the death of the Dutch painter and etcher Rembrandt van Rijn on October 4, 2019. It was the first Rembrandt exhibition of the year in Cologne, shortly before the exhibition shown from November 1, 2019 to March 1, 2020 Inside Rembrandt • 1606–1669 .

exhibition

The exhibition comprised 30 etchings by Rembrandt, mostly from the holdings of the graphic collection of more than 65,000 sheets of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud , plus some loans from other museums and from private collections. The focus of both Rembrandt's graphic work and the exhibition was formed by scenes from the Bible in which people enter into dialogue or are depicted in moments of examination or knowledge. Further works showed how the artist explored the self in self-portraits and worked on the closeness to nature in his landscapes around Amsterdam.

In addition to Rembrandt's etchings, the presentation also included some prints by his predecessors and contemporaries such as Albrecht Dürer , Lucas van Leyden and Jacques Callot , who influenced Rembrandt artistically or competed with him. Others, such as Giovanni Castiglione with a portrait in the style of Rembrandt, Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich with his Great Healing of the Ill based on Rembrandt's Hundertguldenblatt and Max Beckmann's etching Jacob Wrestles with the Angel , were inspired by Rembrandt or tried to measure themselves against him.

Works in the exhibition (selection)

title	Artist	Emergence	Procedure and format	Catalog / list of works	Collection, place
Portrait of a man with a feather beret (so-called self-portrait)	Giovanni Castiglione	1645-1650	Etching, 19.8 × 14.7 cm (sheet)	Catalog 1 Bartsch C 53	Wallraf Graphic Collection , Cologne
The great healing of the sick	Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich	1763	Etching, 30.4 × 43.9 cm	Catalog 2 Linck 21	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
Jacob wrestles with the angel	Max Beckmann	1920	Etching, 28.8 × 22.2 cm	Catalog 3 Hofmaier 179 BI	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
Self-portrait with the beret pulled forward	Rembrandt	around 1630	Etching, 4.7 × 4.5 cm (sheet)	Catalog 5 Bartsch 319	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
Self-portrait with flat cap and embroidered clothes	Rembrandt	around 1642	Etching, 9.7 × 6.4 cm	Catalog 6 Bartsch 26	CG Boerner , Düsseldorf
Self-portrait with Saskia	Rembrandt	1636	Etching, 10.7 × 9.9 cm	Catalog 7 Bartsch 19	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
Study sheet with six female heads, including Saskia	Rembrandt	1636	Etching, 14.9 × 12.4 cm	Catalog 8 Bartsch 365	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
The little lion hunt (with a lion)	Rembrandt	around 1629	Etching, 15.9 × 11.8 cm	Catalog 9 Bartsch 116	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
Lion hunt with two riders	Antonio Tempesta	1598	Etching, 21.3 × 30.8 cm (sheet)	Catalog 11 Bartsch T VII	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
The beggar with a bowl	Jacques Callot	1622	Etching, 14.4 × 9.4 cm (sheet)	Catalog 12 Marot 704 II 12	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
The beggar with a wooden leg	Jacques Callot	1622	Etching, 14.6 × 9.4 cm (sheet)	Catalog 13 Marot 698 II	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
Beggar and beggar woman in conversation	Rembrandt	1630	Etching, 8.3 × 7.1 cm (sheet)	Catalog 14 Bartsch 164	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
The rat poison seller	Rembrandt	1632	Etching, 14.2 × 12.7 cm	Catalog 15 Bartsch 121	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
The good samaritan	Rembrandt	1633	Etching, grave , 25.8 × 20.9 cm (sheet)	Catalog 16 Bartsch 90	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
Joseph and Potiphar's wife	Rembrandt	1634	Etching, 9.7 × 12.1 cm (sheet)	Catalog 18 Bartsch 39	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
Joseph flees from Potiphar's wife	Lucas van Leyden	1512	Engraving , 12.4 × 16.2 cm (sheet)	Catalog 19	Permanent loan from the Cologne grammar school and foundation fund
Adam and Eve	Rembrandt	1638	Etching, 17.5 × 12.3 cm (sheet)	Catalog 22 Bartsch 28	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
Adam and Eve	Albrecht Dürer	1504	Engraving, 24.9 × 19.4 cm (sheet)	Catalog 23 Bartsch D 1	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
Christ in Limbo	Albrecht Dürer	1512	Engraving, 16.5 × 12.0 cm (sheet)	Catalog 24 Bartsch D 16	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
Mary's death	Rembrandt	1639	Etching, drypoint , 39.2 × 31.2 cm (sheet)	Catalog 25 Bartsch 99	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
The death of Mary	Albrecht Dürer	1510	Woodcut , 30.8 × 22.3 cm (sheet)	Catalog 26 Bartsch D 93	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
Our Lady in the Clouds	Rembrandt	1641	Etching, drypoint, 16.8 × 10.9 cm (sheet)	Catalog 27 Bartsch 61	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
The holy family	Rembrandt	around 1632	Etching, 9.6 × 7.0 cm (sheet)	Catalog 29 Bartsch 62	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
Book illustration for Der Zee-vaert lof by Elias Herckmans	Rembrandt	1634	etching	Catalog -	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
The marble cone snail	Rembrandt	1650	Etching, drypoint, grave mark, 8.9 × 12.6 cm (sheet)	Catalog 31 Bartsch 159	Private collection , Cologne
View of Amsterdam as seen from the Kadijk	Rembrandt	before 1642	Etching, 11.3 × 15.1 cm	Catalog - Bartsch 210	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
The landscape with the draftsman	Rembrandt	around 1641	Etching, 13.7 × 21.4 cm (sheet)	Catalog 32 Bartsch 219	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
Landscape with trees, farmhouses and a tower	Rembrandt	around 1651	Etching, drypoint, 12.5 × 32.1 cm (sheet)	Catalog 33 Bartsch 223	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
The three trees	Rembrandt	1643	Etching, grave mark, drypoint, 22.0 × 29.2 cm (sheet)	Catalog 34 Bartsch 212	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
Standing farmer calling "Tis vinnich kout" ("It's terribly cold")	Rembrandt	1634	Etching, 11.7 × 4.3 cm (sheet)	Catalog 35 Bartsch 177	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
Standing farmer who replies "Dats niet" ("Not at all")	Rembrandt	1634	Etching, 11.7 × 4.5 cm (sheet)	Catalog 36 Bartsch 178	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
The Hundertguldenblatt (third state, reworked)	Rembrandt and Captain William Baillie	1775	Etching, drypoint, grave mark, 31.1 × 42.7 cm (sheet)	Catalog 37 Bartsch 74	On permanent loan from the Heinrich and Anny Nolte Foundation, Essen
Christ preaching (called la petite tombe )	Rembrandt	around 1652	Etching, drypoint, 16.1 × 21.4 cm (sheet)	Catalog 38 Bartsch 67	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
Abraham's sacrifice prevented by the angel	Rembrandt	1655	Etching, drypoint, 15.6 × 13.2 cm (sheet)	Catalog 39 Bartsch 35	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
Abraham and Isaac in conversation	Rembrandt	1645	Etching, 15.4 × 12.7 cm (sheet)	Catalog 40 Bartsch 34	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
The triumph of Mordecai	Rembrandt	around 1641	Etching, drypoint, 17.5 × 21.5 cm	Catalog - Bartsch 40	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
Abraham hosting the angels	Rembrandt	1656	Etching, drypoint, 16.5 × 13.6 cm (sheet)	Catalog 41 Bartsch 29	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne
Christ in Emmaus	Rembrandt	1654	Etching, drypoint, 21.7 × 16.6 cm (sheet)	Catalog 42 Bartsch 87	On permanent loan from the Heinrich and Anny Nolte Foundation, Essen
The three crosses	Rembrandt	1653	Drypoint, grave mark, 38.8 × 45.1 cm (sheet)	Catalog 43 Bartsch 78	Wallraf Graphic Collection, Cologne

The images are specimens from collections other than those shown in the exhibition, and possibly other printing conditions as well. The given work titles and dimensions are taken from the exhibition catalog, obviously incorrect information has been corrected according to the online catalog of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam .

literature

Catalog

Anne Buschhoff and Marcus Dekiert (eds.): Experiment, competition, virtuosity . Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-9819709-3-7 .

Catalog raisonné

Adam von Bartsch : Catalog raisonné de toutes les estampes qui forment l'oeuvre de Rembrandt, et ceux de ses principaux imitateurs . A. Blumauer, Vienna 1797, digitized version (etchings by Rembrandt, cited as “Bartsch”).

Adam Bartsch: Le peintre graveur. Septième volume . JV Degen, Vienna 1808, digitized version (Dürer, cited as "Bartsch D").

Adam Bartsch: Le peintre graveur. Dix-septième volume . Pierre Mechetti, Vienna 1818, p. 163ff, digitized version, Heidelberg University Library (Tempesta, cited as "Bartsch T").

Adam Bartsch: Le peintre graveur. Vingt-unième et dernier volume . Pierre Mechetti, Vienna 1821, digitized version (Castiglione, cited as "Bartsch C").

James Hofmaier: Max Beckmann. Catalog raisonné of his prints . 2 volumes, Bern 1990, ISBN 3-85773-024-2 (Beckmann, cited as “Hofmaier”).

JF Linck: Monograph of the painterly representations etched, scraped and cut into wood by the ... court painter and professor ... CWE Dietrich. Along with an outline of the artist's life story . Self-published, Berlin 1846, digitized version (Dietrich, quoted as "Linck").

Pierre Marot: Peintres et graveurs lorrains du XVIIe siècle: Jacques Callot . In: Le pays lorrain , No. 3, 1953 (Callot, cited as “Marot”).

Web links

Rembrandt's graphic world. Experiment. Competition. Virtuosity , website of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Rembrandt's graphic world. Experiment. Competition. Virtuosity , website of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne, accessed on October 18, 2019.

[WRM-1] Rembrandt's graphic world. Experiment. Competition. Virtuosity , website of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne, accessed on October 18, 2019.