the police has already thank you so much for watching to find the german balls thing in the decide things award winning offer is available world wide for every language, settle, buildings, and has never been sent to the 70 century and all that was the period where the country grew up,

the wells came from all over the world and it was to bring the staggering and surprising the people wanted to express their wells. and there, there was a new norm is amount of wealth prosperity. here the, there isn't law for aren't in the netherlands and it grows and grows. something was moving and shaking here. there was a lot of artistic innovation going on in many different shot us the, the amount of good painters in holland incense center is, is kind of crazy in the mount. the good paintings produce the if you really started to look at these paintings and interpret them in the right

way. the world opens the village elder team. the french institute for culture and education on 5th avenue in new york is an integral part of the french embassies presence in the city. it's a beautiful building, and thomas kaplan, an investor likes to stop by whenever he's in town. because france is kaplan's 2nd home. thomas kaplan owns one of the world's largest private collections of dutch masters . he's acquired pieces by everyone from reuben's to premiere, but his pride and joy are the more than a dozen works by rembrandt. we don't have so many

examples of arch that one can point to having an enduring, transcendent impact. the rims rent heads that it was packed still does run branch, lived during the dutch golden age. a period when dutch society transformed leading to a new understanding of art and a new commercialized art market. at the center of this development for cities like death, harlem and amsterdam, the one of the largest collections of works from that era can be found here in the reich's museum. demonstrating that the 80 years hor,

between the spanish empire and dutch provinces, which resulted in the netherlands independence, also brought about an art historical revolution. there is an influx of really very much challenge artistic, but also wealthy merchants who gas producing so that that's, that's important. and they bring also a kind of taste with them. i mean, the nurse is really of the around 1600 to finish all in comparison with the sauce errors. and for very 1st thing happens in the 16th century, and that comes over to the nursing home. i mean, i'm them and finds a fertile ground. the war had been fueled by the persecution of protestants and the predominantly catholic spanish territories in the netherlands. citizens were granted religious freedom. this attracted protestants, jews and other people persecuted due to their religion. most came from southern

provinces, today's belgium, which largely remained loyal to spain and catholicism. among them were many painters, and they sparked artistic innovation. the they changed all that. all the shars landscapes still live for trance church and terriers. they try to find her own each with a kind of own style or on subjects. and that's what the argument world then makes extremely lives. the millions of artworks were created in the 17th century, which is why so many renowned museums have treasures from this time in their collection. but what led to the netherlands becoming such an art factory during this time the,

the nobility, for example, had lost its importance. and the clergy too had become less important. but the bush was e and the merchants have gained welski and were suddenly able to afford art lies the blossoming cultural period and with it, a flood of paintings was under pinned by a surplus of capital. this was largely generated through speculative and risky financial business transactions. seafaring and trade the netherlands was a large colonial power and accumulated a great deal of wealth by trading slaves and exploiting people in the colonies across you are very few people. questions such exploitation at the time. what happened overseas seemed to world apart in amsterdam, most people enjoyed their wealth and sought further growth. the monday relief that somebody's b. fax is not funds again. for example, until you take into account that in 1622 got it around 100000 people lived in

amsterdam. and that 50 years later, there were twice as many, 10 to you can get an idea of how many powerful people came here in northern netherlands. and fuels this, hayden, the blue tale saki, this group of influential people consisted of rich merchants and nobility. among them, the family of e. n. 6. he was a patron and friend of the most famous painter at the time. rembrandt fun right. over the years rembrandt painted john 6 his portrait several times almost 500 years later, his descended beyond 6. the 11th is an art dealer for works by rembrandt and his contemporaries. rembrandt scouts introduced to the family

roughly around the early 60 forty's. amendment was by then really, you know, big a rock star in many was on the top of his career. he painted the rich, his people have them and then the highest elite regions. he was now the rembrandt painted, numerous commissioned works. one of the portraits he made of his patronage on 6 is considered one of his master pieces because of the skill with which he depicted the inner workings of his mind. but how did he gains such insights? what was the relationship between the 2 men like? are still not really 100 percent sure what it was because we don't have a little note saying there room brands and what a wonderful launch we are. kindred spirits and you know, we just, we just don't know what we do know is it at

a certain moment in 1642 to marry or the own words when they met each other. young 6 apparently gave his his friendship, both his album, amcor, him to run brands and said, can you do something for me? and women made a wonderful drawing of, oh, more telling his versus to the people around him. and then underneath it says remo brands to young 6. so of course that's interesting because secretive roads to mister $64.00, i could have just wrote remembrance, but he makes the distinct notation of from rent to leon. 6, he puts them on equal par. and the silver all the moments where their lives crossed . so there must be more between the 2 that made the connection. john 6, the 11th began studying works from the 17th century. as a teenager, there beauty often times astounding. he believes it shouldn't be intimidating. i

remember being very young, finding all these family porch was looking at you because they follow you everywhere. you go quite scary. and i just overcame that by really looking at them, trying to understand they weren't allowing me. but i was actually holding them by trying to understand the from a young age. our collector, thomas kaplan, also sought to understand the old masters. when i was 6 years old, my mother took me for the 1st time to the metropolitan museum. and i remember going up the steps and i certainly remember the impact that connecting with rembrandt had on me. it clicked and i asked my mother

continuously every week. please take me back to see rembrandt the since then. the investor has come to own several works by the artist more than anyone else in the world. i remember a week in which i inquired to paintings, rembrandt for less than one andy warhol that went to auction. this is discordant. if you asked me why that could happen, or i would have to look no further than myself. i did not know until 2003 that one could acquire a rembrandt the today. anyone

interested in collecting and understanding the works of the old masters, must delve into the history of the netherlands and it's art. doing so leads back to one person, rembrandt fun, right. he created many of his iconic works on you'll be placed right in amsterdam. this is the place where you created in almost 20 years, many of his greatest master plans. the interesting thing about this room is the fact that it has northern lights. so the light fall was very important for him as an artist. and we also know from drawings that rembrandt made how the room was furnished and what kind of props and materials he used. rembrandt made a profit from the art market, setting him apart from his contemporaries. but he did not allow himself to be taken advantage of. he began taking on fewer commissions preferring to paint for patrons

who granted him artistic freedom. as he on 6 did, rembrandt valued his independence in that regard. he can be seen as the 1st modern artist. he was also a collector of all kinds of interesting objects. objects that, of course, arrived here at the harbour of amsterdam from all over the world. he was very interested in what we would call exotic objects, stuffed animals, corals, shelves, and weapons. and he created a small museum for himself, and he was one of the 1st artist to collect in this or in this fashion. and it was an inspiration for him. but some of the works. he collected some of the officers who use the menus, paintings and his work, and others just for just an inspiration too. for his creativity as an artist.

rembrandt established his own, our dealership together with his wife, sa scale on the ground floor of their house. the it was said that any buyer who made the journey to amsterdam to purchase works could spend the night surrounded by them. the be created this fantastic business model. that was, you know, his own artwork. he also had many pupils here who paid quite a sum as a fee to be taught by remote paint and too drawn to rich. but he also was an art dealer, so he sold his own work of course, but also work by contemporaries by older artists and by a, by his pupils. so he, you know, unit all these different aspects of business and that really makes him

a very interesting business man. today, rembrandts are rarely up for sale. only a fraction of his work is still privately owned. the remainder is in museums and will likely never be sold. meaning what is in circulation is highly coveted. we have the painting that we sold this year in the sale in new york, and it was a small ramrod, it was, it was this size is one of the smallest from in existence and it was painted just the officer. he went through a very turbulent period in 1640. so you, you're trying see, to brush stroke, you've seen the lights any way he tries to create a c, which we all know it was a abram in the angels, but he puts a different sort of perspective to it. and, and we'll try to sort of grasp his beard rates and he is the way he wanted to enhance the story with his sort of magic. but i'm not sure if he viewed it himself like that. but we don't want to be close to that sort of virtuoso spiritual,

came in 2003 remembrance self portrait. with shaded eyes was sold at a saw the beast auction for over $11000000.00. it's a self portrait of $1634.00 and the signature is here. but when this project came in with us, it actually looks quite different. it looks like this. so you will see actually the, you know, the whole closing has changed into faces has changed. some are still the same, but more interesting, even from the 1935, their picture looks like this. so with very big heads with long hair, with the same for color, then they removed the hatch and bit of the lower hair and it looked like this. this is around 1966, and then we had a cleaned by very good restore together with the technical data they research was an x ray. and then the service was revealed. the for color, i mean there's enough for another for color, not with the golden chain,

whole face change and it turned out to be so fortunate by run run, but it was painted over in the seventy's century. so the restore a had to free and remove 70 century paint from 70 century paint and i must be painstakingly difficult to do that. you have to use a scope on these very experience, but he could only do a few centimeters a day. it's amazing. what can happen to a painting which looks, you know, totally different in the beginning. so we should be careful with this sort of paintings. since 2008, this self portrait has been part of thomas kaplan's collection. and like all his rembrandts, it is all waste on loan. the, on the rare occasion when the works aren't on loan, they are kept in secure storage. a few hours outside of new york visitors are not usually permitted. but naturally, for thomas kaplan,

an exception is made. the collector has not seen some of the paintings for years. wow. it really kept, is you right from the the, my god. it's like being back with old friends the she was my 1st. you always remember your 1st

she was the one i actually kissed. that's the truth, the year if you look, you have a doctor presumably taking rocks from the patients head. and if you look closely at the painting, if you look at his face, you feel the pain. she is in agony. he broke some mold in the conception of what beauty was. he put aside all of the classical academy in the conventions and expressed his own sense of beauty. and he did this without the dish. so

whether it was intended or not by breaking all conventions, he was a liberator. and all those who followed over that debt of gratitude to rembrandt, x, y, i think he is so trying to send the dealer again, 6 was also able to on earth, a treasure. in 2016, he spotted an unknown rembrandt the 1st to be discovered in some 40 years. his sharp, i, paired with his tenacity and rigorous research, resulted in him beating out the competition. i think the most important thing to realize when you look at the work of art, is that for some reason for a 100 years or so, people have miss looked at that picture. they misinterpreted the picture because

that's the only reason that is lost in a big museum or it's not placed in a rice context. so something is wrong. and we tend to call that a sleeper. our dealers, like yeah, and 6 work with a painting for years in the hope that rember and scholars will confirm its authenticity in the end. exhaustive scientific analysis decides the fate of what is often discovered by intuition. look at the ports and by remo, brands always the person who is portrays is looking at you. instead of you looking at the person. this is an easy feeling if somebody is looking at you. and if you turn your gaze away, you feel as somebody is looking at me this slightly all settling. that is sort of how i can explain it with fortress once you see it. it hits you. and so there must be an immediate contact. that's one that's sort of

a stomach feeling concepts. the, the moment 6 saw a portrait of young gentleman labeled as a work from rember and circle. he had a gut feeling the look to that painting and immediately salt hang on. and this is much better than the ocean has it is, is this telling us? and the, the, the moment that really made the click for me was a technical problem. this portrait shows a young man wearing a very distinct piece of lace work. and that lace came into fashion a very distinct time. so it depends and calmly before 6031 or 32. and

then with fashion, it's exactly the same as nowadays. fashion codes for young people. it doesn't count for old people, but in this case you see a very young boy. you know, he literally doesn't really have a little stash or beard. i mean, it's, his cheeks are so pinkish, it is really young. and so he's wearing his legs. the ocean house presented it as, as a painting from the circle of remembrance. well, if you look at the fashion that was just not possible because the fashion with the young boy, it had to be between 603126034 or 5 tops most likely around 33. 34 is that the stings no rumors at that time and it didn't have a circle. following the advice of the on 6, an investor bought the painting in 2016 for a 137000 pounds. today,

it has been confirmed as a genuine rembrandt and is worth many times that amount. typically, rembrandts, bread and butter for 4 trips, commissioned works for the wealthy bourgeois z nobility on the other hand, preferred historical paintings. thoughts as you much he's 28 people should typical history in fact had always been at the top of the hierarchy. so once on a short while later and young william 17th century netherlands landscape, started to rise in popularity, followed by portraits and done. and then at some point, john wrote painting and pet stations be showing model guy, john ro, paintings depicted ordinary people and every day seats, both educational and something of a cautionary tale for upper class observers. today, these works attracts less interest from museum goers, especially in comparison to

a large format of painting like this. rembrandts the night watch, visitors come in droves. it's one of the most valuable paintings in the netherlands . and recently the subject of an intensive research and conservation project. so what becomes more and more aware is that we saw the little bit of the painting it has been painted. it's, it's over, it has nothing changes. but of course it's a, they're all kind of chemical reactions going on and this will continue or way. so have a painful change in comb or a single group out or and this is literally an extreme, but the painting isn't living material or at least some things happen to 6th street really difficult if you want to think 20 or certain people in one group is out in the coming stiff. so his soul says this with bringing that kind of

movement in its and they are really about this seems to walk out of the counselors in one way. and that's of course the, the 1st important standard in the early 70 century. and fortunate to solve the problem and nobody in an effort got that the level of life rembrandt also looked outward for inspiration. artists and holland observed each other closely and engaged in lively competition. the painter was certainly aware of what his colleague friends halls was doing in harlem. friends halls was the 1st artist even before rembrandt, to create a large scale commissioned works for the people of his hometown, the

even in his lifetime. friends halls was known outside of holland. despite his fame and wealthy clients, he struggled financially throughout his life, his legacy, his impressive collection of works. the sons holes is certainly the 1st to show the news brush stroke. but he is a little bit separate if find something and he full 15 develops with all his life. and that is i think he wanted to paint the kinds of movements and dynamism he wants to painful life. the, as is often the case in the history of art, the value of friends hall's paintings over the centuries was determined by

contemporary taste. the one is it sounds house paintings. i very much cherish is the region testers of the st. elizabeth hospital. and it's one of the latest portrait steps and on top of his painted, he was probably in his 80. so almost geriatric, even for especially for the 17th century that was unusually old. well, they love about the painting is that it's out of time. it doesn't fit with the 17th century, and at the same time, i also loved the fact that it was both hated and cherished all throughout history. in the 18th century, you see an old literature that this painting was seen as absolute garbage as the proof of the fact that sontols, when he was old, have no control over his handle. he was probably shaking that with him,

suggested that he had all time or that he didn't know how to paint anymore. that had a lot to do with the 18th century. focus on the academic painting needed to be precise according to the rules. and this was different, so it was really shelf decide you see market price is a for on sales at the time, also going down. it was not appreciated. and then suddenly, everything shifts around at the end of the 19th century. because i'm a french collector and critique to the bill of goods together with a large group of artists that he incited from for a whole to my name on the scene. are sergeant murray castle. whistler started loving this painting by france. halls. i said this is an, it's an icon. know it's a, this is the prove that sounds house was an off on guard painter. he was ultimately modern. he was a head of his time. he fades like we do realistic, impressionist. he had something extraordinary and this painted was then seen as the absolute proof because of his loose brush stroke. it's use of color,

and it's the mentions of black. so it's also, it's amazing how one painting that basically stays the same, go through all the stages of being valued and appreciative, but also of being absolutely discarded. and we are located, it's still here because i think if it wouldn't have been in a semi public institution in the 18th century, would probably have disappeared. most of the are created in 17th century netherlands, no longer exists. but collectors dealers and historians continue to hope another france halls or rembrandt will be on earth. the. busy the we come to people's connections, people's houses, castles, and we have to do events, race, and sometimes you going to as a national event, 3 and things are not on it or are all there have been miscast,

over another capital oak. and i love just go into a house or call, so wherever and put the right name on this. even sometimes i can't find it. but my discuss with colleagues or i try to do some research for that. i just, you discover who is, who, or even a small artist and i looked and bathrooms are looking kitchens. i look above the door cuz you never know what you're trying to find. the around $10000000.00 pages were probably made of which we now have. the estimate is 5 percent less because of that, you know, think as low as confirmed destroyed whatever happened, the north, many paintings remain from the artist. and from here, his body of work is small in comparison to that of his peers. like rembrandt who created over 300 art works. the premier is an interesting example because

we do think that he didn't paint so much because a he took very long to prepare the pigments for his paintings to paint. then he didn't have to paint for the my name because he was very true, very rich wife. and he may, we believe actually he paid to. well, if we look at the air from now, i think around 37 accepted her mirrors that he probably painted just one a year. but of course we're not sure because we, we weren't there. and he didn't post is the work on instagram at the time. the already, during his lifetime, beyond for me or could charge high prices for his few very detailed paintings, which he sold to wealthy patrons and delved the

if we look at the lenders painting, we talk about the trinity. you have it envelopes for mia phones, house and 3 big boyce monica that we still remember today. and if you look at the eval for me, it's very mysterious. it's very intimate. there's. it's very difficult to understand what the symbolical meaning was. what the intention was, it's very domestic premier, was not only a painter, but an art dealer too. despite his talent for creating magnificent interior scenes and his proven expertise, he was impoverished at the end of his life, the demons, the human expression, seeing a doctor starts at the office of if you consider the interior since you portrayed like these young women by an open window off are shown in profile. you brought out the details of their dress fabric, their hair styles, the jewelry, one, you can really get

a sense of the wealth of the 17th century english disappears. you know, not today, several vermeer paintings can be seen in the ranks museum. among them is the milk made in 1696, it was sold at auction for the considerable sum of 175 dutch guilders. it's hard to fathom the amount it would be worth today. but the milk made it's a combination of, i guess the colors which really are lovely and the way that he footsteps for me puts a milk mate in the center of the painting. it's, it's so you're looking at another of a portrait of a noble person or an important person is it's a milk, right. and is there such self, smith and sweetness and that's just wonderful structure. and. and i think from mirrors. but for me as a very special painter, cuz he was really, yeah, out of the ordinary, wonderful kind. to some extent,

the 17th century laid the foundation for the art world as we know it today. at the time auction houses begin opening their doors to deep, our dealer was developing as a profession. and collectors, emerged among the verge, was the art was starting to be democratized, and influence that can still be felt today. the for many artists in the netherlands today, this rich history is something of a blessing and a curse. on some level, it's hard not to measure themselves against the masters at the 17th century. and while they're inspired by the technique and artistry at their predecessors, they must set themselves apart and develop their own unique style. the it's not

to to hit to sit there is to fall asleep, but it's more of stick. if you have to paint something very detailed. so you use this to lean on to get a step behind because to be paying something very small in detail. you, eh, you can get shaky, but you use this as that. and an ice painting where you can see how it was used is the beautiful for me, a painting in india, and then it comes to stores just where you say, painted from the back, leaning against, leaning his hand against the most stick to paint as more detail for swedish painter or bon larson, 17th century dutch art is an important point of reference the i think the similarity between how i

worked and accept the century master's work is, i mean those separate things. one once is i work from like a nice thing is also using northern lights. i only work with daylight because i don't, i don't believe that that had a lamp can give the same sort of effect as a said they like that. and the materials are, you know, way i quite similar painters like larson are continuing the legacy of an important 17th century innovation. capturing the inner life of models on the canvas. to this day, it remains a key benchmark for what makes a commissioned portrait. a work of art force or painting is like working on a tightrope on this line above, you know, huge, doubtful. you have to use your intuition. you just have to laugh, go at the same time as you have to really think about every stroke every,

everything you put down on the canvas. and now i think the, when you use this intuition and when you really get into it, that's the part where the character or the personality or the spirit where it goes beyond just likeness. and that happens in the process if you are emotionally an completes into that no one was able to do that quite like rembrandt. which is why his portraits are so valuable. duluth and the rights museum acquired these works together, spending 160000000 euros for martin, and open the couple and their ancestors are linked to a dark chapter in dutch history. they are symbols of the induction republic. they are well see they are young, they show that they loved each other. do they bring

a new ivan see? and then as that will show, and we tend to forget where to wells came from, the wells came from slavery from a lot of, of, uh, trading weapons and so on and, and colonialism. and it is good to, to be aware of those things. and those paintings don't change, or at least to me differently that them a long way and was a different thing. s at that age. that's how art from the golden age and its dark side should be approach. today is a subject of lively debate. scholars also considered to what extent artists spike rembrandt profited from it while opinions diverge on those matters. there is consensus above one thing. there was never another golden age like it. it was one that ran its natural course. the $6072.00 is

a disaster year. so and then the ditch republic is the text by the english by defense, bind a germans from all sides. so it's, it's, it's really a, it's, it's a narrow escape really for, for the debt, for public. they're almost gone. and also that's the economy has to, well they, they revive in one way and, and so still in the 18th century it's, it's still a very rich conference. you have to understand that all of us at that time show wealthy. so incredibly wealthy by all the, the, the, you know, the, the wealth day and mast. and that whole century before that they didn't have to do a lot. they were actually retired, so to speak. and it starts to change in the middle of the 18th century, where the, the fortunes are diminishing because they're doing nothing. they're just spending.

and then around says $175070.00 sixty's. the have to sell the art from holland was sold all over the world during the following centuries, and it remains scattered. it's rare that a painting finds its way back to the place where it was made the i thought to myself, i'm not a 100 percent. sure what it is, but the whole build up and the, the, the, the approach this is very much like, remember and was used to work. so i decided to do a little research. and for the last one of 2 years, i've been trying to place everything together to see if that could actually work if

this could actually fit within the of a rembrandt and run it as a quite this thing methodology. and you can see this in a little details the way uses the ground for shadow areas, or how he builds up the shadow part of a face with the reflection of something that is reflecting back to the shadow. hold the little details. i'm looking at them thinking about them, and that might eventually leads to a post. this is to try to prove that this is actually by reference. because again, this lady is looking at us and we're trying to look at her, but she's really making contact with you. that is very, very rare. important you. so maybe one day in the not too distant future, the next on nursed. rembrandt could be introduced to the world. the

bill of things will stay the same just and then they might even get with tony pods . good will die of, of to the election over the incumbent president when the election. the country remains defined in pro europe or pro russia is an agreement even possible. focus on europe. in 30 minutes on the d. w. indian professionals rate germany highly for i like uh, someone technologies. the best thing is uh the, the society is set up. i mean,

the healthcare system that you've been to some of the work life balance and like the germans, they also dislike because the frigid of adults on the bureau guessing it's, it's the weather, piano fishing, super slow, made in germany in 90 minutes on d. w. the thing was like a stepping points, you know, i thought you into that warranty. once i finish just the cranes, you can just go back to somewhere else, county, more people than ever on the world wide in search of a pass in life. so why do i want to go back tonight? like i don't have any reason. there's no reason, investment thing for me that yeah, delete something that is coming very, very soon on. we know when the

story in for my reliable news from migraines, wherever they may be, the business data. these are the top stove is donald trump's republican party has won enough sweets to control the us house of representatives. so men think it's hold on both congress. i'm the white house so they should. democrats will find it extremely hard to combat the incoming president's agenda. trump is moving quickly to fill his cabinet. has a point of empty vaccine active as robert f. kennedy, junior of health secretary north korean leader kim jong and has ordered his military to begin most producing suicide drones. according to state media, he said the introduction of such a rolls around the world.