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Artist Rembrandt van Rijn (July 15, 1606 – Oct 4, 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher.
Rembrandt van is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age.
In both painting and printmaking he exhibited a complete knowledge of classical iconography, which he molded to fit the requirements of his own experience; thus, the depiction of a biblical scene was informed by Rembrandt's knowledge of the specific text, his assimilation of classical composition, and his observations of the Jewish population of Amsterdam.[5] Because of his empathy for the human condition, he has been called "one of the great prophets of civilization."
Artist Rembrandt van Rijn was born on July 15, 1606 in Leiden, the Netherlands. He was the ninth child born to Harmen Gerritsz van Rijn and Neeltgen Willemsdr van Zuytbrouck. [7] His family was quite well-to-do; his father was a miller and his mother was a baker's daughter. As a boy he attended Latin school and was enrolled at the University of Leiden, although according to a contemporary he had a greater inclination towards painting; he was soon apprenticed to a Leiden history painter, Jacob van Swanenburgh, with whom he spent three years. After a brief but important apprenticeship of six months with the famous painter Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam, Rembrandt opened a studio in Leiden in 1624 or 1625, which he shared with friend and colleague Jan Lievens. In 1627, Rembrandt began to accept students, among them Gerrit Dou.
In 1629 Rembrandt was discovered by the statesman Constantijn Huygens, the father of Christiaan Huygens (a famous Dutch mathematician and physicist), who procured for Rembrandt important commissions from the court of the Hague. As a result of this connection, Prince Frederik Hendrik continued to purchase paintings from Rembrandt until 1646.
At the end of 1631, Rembrandt moved to Amsterdam, then rapidly expanding as the new business capital of the Netherlands, and began to practise as a professional portraitist for the first time, with great success.
In 1635 Rembrandt and Saskia moved into their own house, renting in fashionable Nieuwe Doelenstraat. In 1639, they moved to a prominent house (now the Rembrandt House Museum) in the Jodenbreestraat in what was becoming the Jewish quarter; the mortgage to finance the 13,000 guilder purchase would be a primary cause for later financial difficulties.It was there that Rembrandt frequently sought his Jewish neighbors to model for his Old Testament scenes.[12] Although they were by now affluent, the couple suffered several personal setbacks; their son Rumbartus died two months after his birth in 1635 and their daughter Cornelia died at just 3 weeks of age in 1638. In 1640, they had a second daughter, also named Cornelia, who died after living barely over a month. Only their fourth child, Titus, who was born in 1641, survived into adulthood. Saskia died in 1642 soon after Titus's birth, probably from tuberculosis. Rembrandt's drawings of her on her sick and death bed are among his most moving works.
During Saskia's illness, Geertje Dircx was hired as Titus' caretaker and nurse and probably also became Rembrandt's lover. She would later charge Rembrandt with breach of promise and was awarded alimony of 200 guilders a year. Rembrandt worked to have her committed for twelve years to an asylum or poorhouse (called a "bridewell") at Gouda, after learning Geertje had pawned jewelry that had once belonged to Saskia, and which Rembrandt had given her.
In the late 1640s Rembrandt began a relationship with the much younger Hendrickje Stoffels, who had initially been his maid. In 1654 they had a daughter, Cornelia, bringing Hendrickje a summons from the Reformed church to answer the charge "that she had committed the acts of a whore with Rembrandt the painter". She admitted this and was banned from receiving communion. Rembrandt was not summoned to appear for the Church council because he was not a member of the Reformed church.[14] The two were considered legally wed under common law, but Rembrandt had not married Henrickje, so as not to lose access to a trust set up for Titus in his mother's will.
Rembrandt outlived both Hendrickje, who died in 1663, and Titus, who died in 1668, leaving a baby daughter. Rembrandt died within a year of his son, on October 4, 1669 in Amsterdam, and was buried in an unmarked grave in the Westerkerk.
Artist Rembrandt as a symbol
While Artist Rembrandt was already famous during his life, his fame was greatly enhanced during the 19th century. The Netherlands looked for national heroes and symbols. The Belgians had Rubens, so the Dutch embraced Rembrandt. To French artists in this revolutionary century, Rembrandt embodied democracy and republican sentiment—the opposite of Rubens, the leader of the Flemish school, who had worked for royalty and aristocracy. This Rembrandt persona, McQueen says, conflated his biography and his art. He had lived for many years in the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam; he had depicted beggars and the urban poor, which was seen as evidence of his sympathy for different social groups. His bankruptcy led many people to feel empathy for him as an outsider. The critics “made more of Rembrandt as a social outcast, misunderstood in his own time.
Selected works by Artist Rembrandt Van
Artist Rembrandt Paintings:The Sacrifice of Abraham
Artist Rembrandt Paintings:Christ In The Storm
Artist Rembrandt Paintings:Hendrickje Bathing in a River
Artist Rembrandt Paintings:Christ In The Storm On The Sea Of Galilee
Artist Rembrandt Paintings:Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
Artist Rembrandt Paintings:The Holy Family with Angels
Artist Rembrandt Paintings:Sampling Officials of the Drapers Guild
Artist Rembrandt Paintings:The Polish Rider
Artist Rembrandt Paintings:night watch
Artist Rembrandt Paintings:Frederick Rihel on Horseback
Artist Rembrandt Paintings:Belshazzar's Feast
Artist Rembrandt Paintings:The Conspiration of the Bataves
Artist Rembrandt Paintings:The Anatomy Lecture of Dr Tulp
Artist Rembrandt Paintings:The Return of the Prodigal Son
Artist Rembrandt Paintings:Sarah Waiting for Tobias
Artist Rembrandt Van Paintings:The Abduction of Europa
Artist Rembrandt Van Paintings:Descent from the Cross
Artist Rembrandt Van Paintings:Christ in the Storm on the Lake of Galilee
Artist Rembrandt Van Paintings:The Syndics of the Clothmakers' Guild
Artist Rembrandt Van Paintings:Portrait of Jan Six
Artist Rembrandt Van Paintings:Bathsheba in her bath
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