Rembrandt
Painting, Visual Artist
1606 – 1669
Who was Rembrandt?
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period of great wealth and cultural achievement that historians call the Dutch Golden Age when Dutch Golden Age painting, although in many ways antithetical to the Baroque style that dominated Europe, was extremely prolific and innovative, and gave rise to important new genres in painting.
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's greatest creative triumphs are exemplified especially in his portraits of his contemporaries, self-portraits and illustrations of scenes from the Bible. His self-portraits form a unique and intimate biography, in which the artist surveyed himself without vanity and with the utmost sincerity.
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- Born
- Jul 15, 1606
Leiden - Also known as
- Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (Workshop of)
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Saskia van Uylenburgh
(1634/07/02 - 1642/06/14)
- Saskia van Uylenburgh
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Dutch people
- Nationality
- Dutch Republic
- Profession
- Education
- Leiden University
- Lived in
- Amsterdam
(1631 - 1669/10/04) - Leiden
(1606/07/15 - 1625) - Amsterdam
(1625 - 1626) - Leiden
(1626 - 1631)
- Amsterdam
- Died
- Oct 4, 1669
Amsterdam - Resting place
- Westerkerk
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on July 23, 2013
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