Premiere of Rembrandt’s graphics

BlicOnline: Premiere of Rembrandt’s graphics

BELGRADE / As the Louvre museum is currently exhibiting Rembrandt’s figures of Christ, Belgrade-based National Museum will be displaying graphics of the famous Dutch artist until 19 June, as well works from other artists on permanent display at this Serbian cultural institution.

The title of the exhibition is “Original truth of black and white. A glimpse at the Collection of Dutch and Flemish graphic works at the National Museum in Belgrade” and it has been mounted by curator Dragana Kovacic for the occasion of the International Museum Day.




“Original truth of black and white” is a representative selection of 45 works of artists who marked the historical development of the graphic art, such as Lucas van Leyden, Johannes Sadeler, Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt van Rijn, Adriaen van Ostade, Jan and Andries Both, Jan van de Velde, Nicolaes Berche and Lucas Vorsterman.

Artistically and stylistically speaking, this exhibition portrays the art of renaissance, mannerism, baroque and rococo, while technically it is copper plate engraving and line engraving, both highly demanding techniques the aforementioned masters brought to perfection in their time.

- “Rembrandt’s experiments with plate engraving and line engraving are particularly important and this will be the premiere showing of these pieces to the Serbian public. At this particular exhibition Rembrandt’s work will be represented by Ecce homo (1636), Self-portrait in a cap (1630), Portrait of a Man (1631), Driving the Merchants from the Temple (1635),” said Kovacevic, adding that Dutch and Flemish graphic artists experimented with copper engraving’s concepts of light and shadow