NEW YORK, Nov. 29, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Rembrandt's Birth Year Anniversary
In 2006, Holland will celebrate the 400th birthday of Rembrandt. His birth year will be commemorated with an extensive and exciting program of exhibitions and events in Amsterdam, Leiden and The Hague.
Rembrandt Highlights in Amsterdam
The Van Gogh Museum will host a blockbuster exhibition: Rembrandt & Caravaggio, an encounter between two geniuses of the northern and southern Baroque. Monumental paintings will offer visual treats of powerful images exuding love, emotion and passion (February 24 - June 18, 2006).
The Rijksmuseum will exhibit All the Rembrandt Paintings and Drawings from the Rijksmuseum's collection (January 26 - December 31, 2006).
The Rijksmuseum also presents pieces that have once been attributed to Rembrandt, but in fact were not real Rembrandts, Really Rembrandt? (March 9 - May 31, 2006).
Nightwatching by Peter Greenaway, a theatrical installation with image and sound surrounding the Nightwatch in the Rijksmuseum (June 2 - August 6, 2006).
The Rembrandt House Museum, the house in which the master lived and worked for more than 20 years, will host four exhibitions. One of the top attractions of the Rembrandt Year is the exhibition Rembrandt, The Quest of a Genius (April 1 - June 25, 2006). Rembrandt is considered one of the great art innovators, and his unique oeuvre the result of a life-long artistic quest. Well over 50 paintings and 50 drawings and etchings shed new light on Rembrandt as a creative genius.
Other exhibitions in the Rembrandt House: Rembrandt and English Etching (December 17, 2005 - March 12, 2006); Rembrandt the Etcher (July 1 - August 27, 2006); and Uylenburgh & Son, Art and Commerce in Rembrandt's Time (September 9 - December 3, 2006).
Rembrandt Highlights in Leiden
The painter was born in the university city Leiden, one of principal intellectual and artistic centers in the country, and lived and worked in Leiden during the first 25 years of his life. Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal will start the Rembrandt Year with Rembrandt's Mother, Myth and Reality (December 16, 2005 - March 19, 2006).
Other exhibitions at the Lakenhal: Rembrandt, the Narrator (April 13 - September 3, 2006); Rembrandt's Landscapes (October 6, 2006 - January 7, 2007).
Timeline of all exhibitions and events
Dec. 15, 2005 - Jan. 2007: Opening Rembrandt Visitors Center Leiden
Dec. 16, 2005 - March 19, 2006: Rembrandt's Mother in Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden
Dec. 17, 2005 - March 12, 2006: Rembrandt and English Etching in Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam
Throughout 2006: Rembrandt Walking Route City of Amsterdam and Leiden
Jan. 26 - Feb. 19, 2006: All the Paintings from the Rijksmuseum Collection in Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Feb. 24 - June 18, 2006: Rembrandt -- Caravaggio in Rijksmuseum/Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
March 9 - May 31, 2006: Really Rembrandt? in Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
April 1 - July 2, 2006: Rembrandt -- The Quest of a Genius in Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam
April 13 - Sept. 3, 2006: Rembrandt, the Narrator in Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden
May 12 - Aug. 13, 2006: The Essence of Rembrandt in Amsterdam Historical Museum, Amsterdam
June 2 - Aug. 6, 2006: Nightwatching in Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
June 26 - Sept. 18, 2006: A Summer with Rembrandt in Mauritshuis Museum, The Hague
July 8 - Sept. 3, 2006: Rembrandt, the Etcher in Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam
July 15, 2006 - Feb. 2007: Rembrandt, the Musical in Royal Carre Theatre, Amsterdam
Aug. 11 - Oct. 11, 2006 : All the Drawings, Part I: The Storyteller
Sept. 14 - Dec. 10, 2006: Uylenburgh & Son in Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam
Sept. 15 - Dec. 10, 2006: Rembrandt and the Bible in Biblical Museum, Amsterdam
Oct. 6, 2006 - Jan. 7, 2007: Rembrandt's Landscapes in Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden
Oct. 14 - Dec. 31, 2006 : All the Drawings, Part II: The Observer
Oct. 15 - Dec. 31, 2006: Rembrandt's Documents in Municipal Archives Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Nov. 10, 2006 - Feb. 4, 2007: The "Jewish" Rembrandt in Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam