Rembrandt
are the most renowned painter Holland’s and a the most renowned Europe. As
actor of the biblical story he goes out of the civil blackboard painting and the
Dutchman's Protestant Christian-rum, levied his art however over all temporal,
social, national and sectarian borders too general validity. Is factory is in
approximately 600 paintings, over 300 etchings and more as 1500 hand-drawings.
His
lives he accomplished exclusively in Holland, that then out of modest starts
also to the world-validity. Rembrandt, son of the Leidener miller Harmen van
Rijn, ent-came to strive of the normal people. He visited the school of lateen
and also the university, goes with however approximately 15 years to the
historical-painter Jacob Swanenburgh come back from Italy into a three-year old
teaching, on it one more half-year to the Amsterdamer Pieter Lastman, his actual
Teachers, and maybe still to Jan Pynas. 1625 began Rembrandt in Leiden
independent to painting. The paintings his Leidener early time of 1625-31 didn't
go of new Dutch landscapes-, still lifes- und portait-paintings, but of the
paintings of historic Pieter Lastmans out of,
Figures
painted. Rembrandt absorbed Lastmans appearances into the Human and Spatial
through forceful observation and insid participation, dramatic order, steers
light and personal brush-leadership. What first of all severely und' crass,
colorful, over-increases or terse works- martyrdom of the sacred Stephanus
(Lyon), Bileams donkey-in, in Paris, eviction Wechsler out of the temple!
(Moscow)- that became soon to a new correspondence all singles-trains of
vereint.1631 settled Rembrandt to Amsterdam over. Already in suffering being he
recognized is now he attracts the artistic life of the metropolis with their
collectors, sponsors and art-dealers. It the success began, the fame and so that
also the economic ascension. Immediately he got jobs. Out of the years of 1632
has gotten alone 30-dated painting, also a group-likeness. 1634 he married
Saskia van Uylenburgh, daughter of a looks at, affluent lawyers in Friesland. On
auctions he bought also paintings, graphics, plastic and exotic curios so
inoccuous, that he because of wastefulness was slandered. 1639 he acquired on
paying off a big house, that expenses his situations wide exceed. Is success
became confirms through numerous important student, that learned since 1631 at
him, how approximately Jacob Backer, Govert Flinck, Ferdinand Bol and Gerbrand
van the Eeckhout.
In the
1640er years Rembrandt give up the baroque. Instead of dramatic mood-full areas
prevailed now with unpretentious figures hold, whose sensation into the spell of
the bright-darkness to the expression comes.
In the
50er years itself levied too his art monumental silence and size.
In the
60er years Rembrandts monumentality with wide connected flowing, in it self
expression-full colours. His late-factories are pensive picture-poems, singular
in the European art.