Rembrandt and Lucas van Leyden

19 March to 19 June 2011

In association with The Lakenhal Museum in Leiden, the Rembrandt House Museum is staging the exhibition Rembrandt & Lucas van Leyden. Rembrandt’s etchings are presented side by side with engravings by Lucas van Leyden, illustrating the sixteenth-century master’s great influence on Rembrandt. Famous prints by Rembrandt such as Adam & Eve, Ecce Homo and The Three Crosses are shown to be inspired by engravings by Lucas.

Rembrandt owned all of Lucas van Leyden’s print oeuvre. We know that in 1642 Rembrandt paid sums ranging from two hundred to two hundred and fifty guilders for prints by Lucas—a workman’s annual wages at the time. Like Rembrandt, Lucas took his subjects from everyday life, but there is also a splendid self-portrait. Rembrandt was clearly inspired by this. The Rembrandt House will be exhibiting works by Rembrandt and Lucas van Leyden side by side to show the influence that the sixteenth-century artist had on Rembrandt.
 
At the same time there will be a major retrospective in the Lakenhal entitled Lucas van Leyden and the Renaissance,which places the work of Lucas van Leyden in the international context of his time. Lucas and his colleague and contemporary Albrecht Dürer are seen as the pioneers of the Renaissance in the Low Countries. For more information see http://www.lakenhal.nl

Publication:
Bob van den Boogert, Rembrandt & Lucas van Leyden, Amsterdam, 2011



The Enchanted World of Anneke Kuyper.
Prints, Paintings and Pastels

Prolonged until 29 May 2011
The Rembrandt House regularly features work by contemporary graphic artists from the Netherlands and abroad. A retrospective of the Amsterdam artist Anneke Kuyper (1942), widow of the graphic designer Lou Strik, to whom the museum previously devoted an exhibition, opens on 22 January. Anneke Kuyper’s work covers a wide range of subjects handled with striking virtuosity in such traditional techniques as engraving on copper with a burin. She is one of the few living Dutch artists to be classically trained and she uses the traditional skills she learnt then to express herself in various media.


The Rembrandt House is the ideal venue for an exhibition of Kuyper’s work because there are a number of direct parallels to Rembrandt’s work. Like the seventeenth-century artist, Kuyper has mastered several techniques supremely well and works with them using traditional methods. Kuyper, like Rembrandt, prints her own prints, so that she can keep control of the whole process. Both artists have another body of work besides printmaking: the exhibition also includes oil paintings and pastels. Anneke Kuyper has numerous students—as Rembrandt did. Kuyper worked in education for decades, passing on her skills to students at three art academies. Even now she still teaches at home, just as Rembrandt did on the top floor of his own house.
  The Rembrandt House is now fortunate enough to be able to add to its collection a wide selection of Kuyper’s prints that she has gifted to the museum. This is in line with the policy of collecting contemporary prints by artists whose work is exhibited in the museum.
  A lavishly illustrated monograph entitled Prenten van Anneke Kuyper, edited by curator Bob van den Boogert and published by Uitgeverij Thoth, is being published to mark the opening of the exhibition.  
 
Information
For more information and images, please contact Leslie Schwartz at marketing@rembrandthuis.nl