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Museum Het Rembrandthuis
Jodenbreestraat 4
1011 NK Amsterdam
The Netherlands
T +31 20 520 0400
E museum@ museumrembrandthuis.nl
Press Inquiries: press-office@museumrembrandthuis.nl
Rembrandt's life & work
Rembrandt
Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 –
4 October 1669) is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers of the 17th century.
He produced about three hundred paintings, three hundred etchings and two
thousand drawings. Rembrandt’s extraordinary ability to capture the effects of
light and shadow, often producing stark contrasts (clair-obscure), made it
possible for him to create extremely lively and dramatic scenes.
Having
achieved youthful success as a portrait painter,
Rembrandt's later years were marked by personal tragedy and financial
hardships. Yet his etchings and paintings were popular throughout his lifetime,
his reputation as an artist remained high, and for twenty years he taught many
important Dutch painters.
Rembrandt
considered himself mostly a history- and portrait painter. His painted and
etched self-portraits form a unique and intimate biography. His wife Saskia van
Uylenburgh, his son Titus van Rijn, as well as
his later mistresses, Geertje Dircx en Hendrickje Stoffels,
were often used as models for biblical, mythological or historical figures in his work.
Rembrandt's history
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Rembrandt's genealogy
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