iRembrandt House Museum · Jodenbuurt / Waterlooplein
Over 80 works on paper, from Rembrandt to living artists, tracing how printmakers and draughtsmen kept pushing techniques and materials. Visitors can draw their own work in the gallery.
One wall here is nothing but trees. Rembrandt's comes first, then one by his contemporary Geertruydt Roghman, then later artists', and although the subject barely changes, no two prints look alike.
More than 80 works on paper, all from the museum's own collection, fill two small rooms. Glenn Brown reworked details of two tiny Rembrandt etchings on an iPad and etched them back as six large heads. Willem den Ouden printed the mist on the Waal onto thin Chinese paper. There's a real Goya, and a Japanese woodcut, a technique Rembrandt never used. In the middle stands a table of papers and drawing materials: you sit down and try it yourself.
Epco Runia, head of collection, told Oost Online the aim is to make visitors look closely. Come for prints and drawings, not paintings. The show and the drawing table are included in the €23.50 ticket (ages 6 to 17 €8, under 6 free). From 2 November the museum closes at 17.00.
The wall of trees
Rembrandt's tree comes first, then Geertruydt Roghman's and later artists' versions, the same landscape subject turning into a different print each time.
Glenn Brown's six heads
Details from two small Rembrandt etchings, reworked digitally and blown up into six large etched heads by the British artist.
Hercules Segers on linen
A spruce branch in a landscape, etched and printed on linen in blue and brown, the Oost Online reviewer's favourite in the show.
Willem den Ouden's Waal
Lithographs on thin Chinese paper, using chine collé, that catch the reflections and mist over the river Waal.
Gerd Arntz's twelve houses
A series of stylised black-and-white pictograms, 'twelve houses of our time', each one showing a social ill.
You came for Rembrandt paintings: this is prints and drawings on paper in two small rooms.
Kids can draw at the table in the middle of the show with different papers and materials, free with admission. Tickets are €8 for ages 6 to 17 and free under 6.
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