Rembrandt: Lasting Impressions

Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-University

Tuesday 10 December/Wednesday 11 December 2019

Venue: Historic Observatory/Historische Sternwarte
Geismar Landstraße 11


Programme


Tuesday, 10 December

  • 10:00-10:15 Welcome and Introduction (Martin van Gelderen, Ivan Gaskell)

  • 10:15-11:15 Ivan Gaskell (Bard Graduate Center, New York City) Face to Face with Rembrandt

  • 11:15-11:45 Coffee/Tea Break

  • 11:45-12:45 An Van Camp (Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford) Young Rembrandt as an Experimental and Innovative Printmaker

  • 12:45-14:00 Lunch

  • 14:00-15:00 Ann-Sophie Lehmann (University of Groningen) Rembrandt’s Ovals and the Moves of Etching

  • 15:00-15:30 Coffee/Tea Break

  • 15:30-16:30 Martin van Gelderen (Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen) Republic and Toleration: Grotius and Rembrandt



Wednesday, 11 December

  • 9:30-10:30 Ulrike Kern (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main) Tricks and Truth in Rembrandt’s Shadows. A Discussion of the Early Etchings

  • 10:30-11:00 Coffee/Tea Break

  • 11:00-12:00 Justus Lange (Old Masters Pictures Gallery, Kassel) Rembrandt and Saskia: Marriage, Model, and Marketing

  • 12:00-13:00 Allison Stielau (University College London) Convention and Innovation in Rembrandt's Portrait of Jan Lutma

  • 13:00-14:00 Lunch

  • 14:00-15:00 Leonore van Sloten (Rembrandt house Museum, Amsterdam) Rembrandt, The New Hollstein Dutch at home @ The Rembrandt House Museum

  • 15:00-16:00 Anne-Katrin Sors (Georg-August-University, Göttingen) Rembrandt in Göttingen and the reception of Rembrandt in the 18th century