400 Years from Birthday of Rembrandt

Number by catalogue:  Scott: 317  

Perforation: No  

Subject:

5 dollars. On unperforated souvenir sheet a painting of Rembrandt* "Winter landscape" is reproduced.

 

Additional:

*Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 – October 4, 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age.

Having achieved youthful success as a portrait painter, his later years were marked by personal tragedy and financial hardship. Yet his etchings and paintings were popular throughout his lifetime, his reputation as an artist remained high, and for twenty years he taught nearly every important Dutch painter. 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.

In both painting and printmaking he exhibited a complete knowledge of classical iconography, which he molded to fit the requirements of his own experience; thus, the depiction of a biblical scene was informed by Rembrandt's knowledge of the specific text, his assimilation of classical composition, and his observations of Amsterdam's Jewish population. Because of his empathy for the human condition, he has been called "one of the great prophets of civilization."

Winter Landscape, 1646, Oil, 16.7x22.4 cm.
At present it is in Staaliche Kunstsammlungen Galery, Schloss Wilhelmshohe, Kassel, Germany

 

This reproduction has been taken on "Rembrandt paintings" web page

Information has been taken from Wikipedia