our lives some 400 years ago. stay tuned for our a documentary chasing rembrandt. a marietta evans dean. i'll have more headlines for you at the top of the hour from me and the entire news team in berlin. thanks for watching the . i want to tell you something, it's a bear with me, my hand raising awareness of h o d and on and we're still in test shane assignments and we need to break out of it. i want to tell you something how to tennessee. chris starts november 29th on dw, the, the, the 70 century, and all that was a period where the country grew up. the wells came from all over the world. and it

was to be really staggering and surprising. the people wanted to express their wells and their there was a new norm is amount of most prosperity here the, there isn't law for our internet of incentives 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, 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. this rembrandt 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 ranks museum. demonstrating that the 80 years war 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 talents, 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 around 1600 to financial incomes. patterson was the spouse errors. and for the error, everything happens in the 16th century, and that comes over to the nursing home and them and finds a fertile ground. here 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 extreme. the lives of millions of artworks were created in the 17th century, which is why so many renowned museums have treasures from this time and 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 to what had become less important. but the bush was he and the merchants had gained welski and were suddenly able to afford art life each 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 york. 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. and i'm under belief that somebody's be effective, and that's funds again, for example, until you take into account that in 1620,

around 100000 people lived in amsterdam. and that 50 years later, there were twice as many pen to you can get an idea of how many powerful people came here in northern netherlands and fuels this hated the blue to oh, fox. 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 young 6 his portraits, several times almost 500 years later, his descended beyond 6. the 11th is an art dealer for works by rembrandt and his contemporaries. rembrandt go to introduce to the family

roughly around the early 60 forty's. environment was by then really, you know, big rockstar him and he was on the top of his career. he painted the richest people, have them, and in the highest elite regions, he was known, the rembrandt painted numerous commission to works. one of the portraits he made of his patron. yeah. on 6 is considered one of his masterpiece. it's because of the skill with which he depicted the inner workings of his mind. but how did he gain such insights? what was the relationship between the 2 men like i'm still not really 100 percent sure what it was, because we don't have a little note saying there remembrance and what a wonderful lounge we are. kindred spirits and you know, we just, we just don't know what we do know is it at

a certain moment and 1642 to very early own words when they met each other. young 6 apparently gave his is friendship, both his album memory for him to run brands. and he said, can you do something for me? and women made a wonderful drawing of home or telling is versus to the people around them. and then underneath it says remembrance to young 6. so of course that's interesting because it could have routes to mr. 6. 4, i could have just rode remembrance, but he makes that this thing notation of from rent to young 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. where are you go? quite scary. and i just overcame, that's by really looking at them trying to understand that they were not loading 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 acquired 2 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, shells, 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. the

rembrandt established his own, our dealership together with his wife saskia 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, you know, all these different prospects 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 and a 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 and 6040. 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 piece b 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 time in 2003 remembrance self portrait with shaded eyes was sold at a saw the bees 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 of the still the same, but more interesting, even from the 1935. there is a picture look like this. so with a very big cab with long hair, with the same for color, then they removed the hatch and big 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 distribution has 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 for to revive run run. but it was painted over in the 17th century, so the restore it 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. really kept as 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 on the lips. that's the truth. the year if you look, you have a doctor, presumably taking rocks from the patient's 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 italian, late 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, rembrandt, x, y, i think he is so trying to send the art 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. art dealer's 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 a portrait by rembrandt. always. the person who is portrays is looking at you instead of you looking at the person. is this an easy feeling if somebody is looking at you? and if you're turning 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 well, that's sort of

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

with fashion, it's exactly the same as nowadays. fashion counts for young people. it doesn't count for old people, but in this case you see a very young boy. you know, he lives, she doesn't really have a list. i show her beard. i mean it's, his cheeks are so pinkish, it is really. yeah. and so he's wearing his legs the ocean house presented. it is as a painting from the circle of remembrance. well, if you look at the fashion that was just going 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 of the rumors at that time. 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 portraits, commissioned works for the wealthy bourgeois z nobility on the other hand, preferred historical paintings. but such as your mother, he's 28 people should typical history, in fact, had always been at the top of the hierarchy. because once on a short while later, when 17th century netherlands landscape started to rise in popularity followed by portraits and done. and then at some point, john wrote painting context was the showed him. all right. 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 painting like this remembrance 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 it's me stalls and little bit and all of the painting has been painted it's, it's over, that's nothing changes. but of course it's there all kinds of chemical reactions going on and this will continue or way. so things will change in color sinks will group out or, and that this is a little bit extreme, but the painting is in 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 without coming step. so here for this with bringing that kind of

movement in its and they are really well, they seem to work out for ken for thing one way. and that's of course the, the 1st part of started in the early 70 century. and fortunate to solve the problem and nobody ever got that level. why fi? 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 fronts halls was doing in harland 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, a find something and he is full sitting, develops with all his life and, and that is i think he wanted to paint that kind of movement and dynamism he wants to paint. so hif 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 stats 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 with a lot of other 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 handling, 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. a focus on the academic no 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. that 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. our sergeant murray castle, whistler, started loving this painting by franz halls. i said this is an, it's an icon. know it's a, this is the prove that sounds. how was an off on guard painter. he was ultimately modern and he was the head of his time. he bates like we do realistic, impressionist. he had something extraordinary. and this painted was then seen as the absolute proof because of his lose brushstroke. it's use of color in its

dimensions 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 we come to people's collections, people's houses, castles, and we have to do invent theresa and sometimes you going to as a national event, 3 and things are not on it. or are on there have been miscast over i'm not the

catalog 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 are a tried to do some research for that, just to you discover who is who, or even a small artist and i looked and bathrooms, i looked and kitchens. i look above the door cuz you never know what you're trying to find. the around $10000000.00 paintings were probably made of which we now have. they 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 artworks. the premier is an interesting example

because we do think that he didn't pay so much because a he took right on to prepare the pigments for his paintings to paint. then he didn't have to pay for the money because he was very, very rich wife. and he may, we believe actually he paid to, well, if we look at his 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 that envelopes for me, it sounds house the 3 big boyce monica that we still remember today. and if you look at the oven off of 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 that you would expect. as soon as obviously, i'd have even offices, if you consider the interior cnc portrayed like these young women by an open window off are shown in profile. if 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. no, 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 mad, it's a combination of, i guess the colors which really are lovely and the way that he puts that 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 meal, right. and is there such self smith and sweetness and that's just wonderful structure. and. and i think for mirrors. but for me as a very special painter because 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, the arc dealer was developing as a profession. and collectors emerged among the birch was the art was starting to be democratized, and influence that can still be felt today the, for many artists and another lunch 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. it's not

to to hit to sit there is to fall asleep, but it's more of stick. just if you have to paint something very detailed, you use this to lean on to get us. that'd be high because you'd be paying something very small in detail. you eh, you can get shaky, but you use this as that and uh, an ice painting where you can see how it was used is the beauty of it for me, a painting in india, and then when it comes to stores, just what you said painted from the back, leaning against, leaning his hand against the most stick to paint a small detail for swedish painter or bonn, 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 they're separate. takes one once each i work from like a nice thing is also, you know, using northern lights. i only work with daylight because i don't, i don't believe that that has a lab can give the same so effect as a said a lot of 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. portrait painting is like walking on a tightrope on this line above a huge downfall. you have to use your intuition, you just have to go at the same time as you have to really think about every stroke,

every a meeting you put down on the canvas. and now i think the, when you use this intuition and, 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 no one was able to do that quite like rembrandt, which is why his portraits are so valuable. the loop and the reich's 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 conduct for a public. 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 to where dwells came from. the wealth 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 at them a long way and was a different thing. s at that age. that's how art from the golden age and it's dark side should be approach. today is a subject of lively debate. scholars also considered to what extent artists like rembrandt profited from it while opinions diverge on those matters. there is consensus about one thing. there was never another golden age like it. it was one that ran its natural course,

the $672.00. we say i'm john does auster year, so then the district public is text bind to english by defense, bind the 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 only the, you know, the wealth day and mast and that whole century before that they didn't have to do a lot. they were actually were tired, 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 $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 it 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 room. it has a quite this thing, methodology. and you can see it isn't a little details the way he 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. we're trying to look at her, but she's really making contact with you. that is very, very rare. and for a teacher. so maybe one day in the not too distant future, the next on nursed. rembrandt could be introduced to the world, the,

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