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Rembrandt was here : the artist’s house in the age of modernism
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Campbell, Louise (2022) Rembrandt was here : the artist’s house in the age of modernism. Journal of the History of Collections, 34 (2). pp. 303-316. doi:10.1093/jhc/fhab043 ISSN 0954-6650.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhab043
Abstract
In 1911 visitors to the Amsterdam house where Rembrandt lived between 1639 and 1658 were disappointed to find no working studio, bedroom or personal collections. In his design for the Rembrandthuis museum, the architect K.P.C. de Bazel had chosen not to create a period interior, but instead combined domestically scaled rooms with a museum displaying Rembrandt’s prints. The project registered early twentieth-century perceptions of Rembrandt as a modern, and contemporary debates about the restoration of historic buildings. Unlike many nineteenth-century house museums, it was designed to focus attention on the work rather than the life of the occupant. However, in 1998, the museum was reconfigured as a simulacrum of a seventeenth-century house, with a new annex for displaying prints and drawings and for exhibitions. The history of the Rembrandthuis illuminates changing approaches to the artist over time and their implications for architecture and museology in the age of modernism.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History of Art | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of the History of Collections | ||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0954-6650 | ||||||
| Official Date: | July 2022 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 34 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 303-316 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/jhc/fhab043 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 19 August 2022 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 19 August 2022 |
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