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Even within his own lifetime Rembrandt enjoyed tremendous success, but his career had its ups and downs, and there is a stubborn romantic perception that he was a lonely, misunderstood genius. Later generations have tended to project their own aspirations and prejudices onto Rembrandt, perceiving him at times as a rebel, a Germanic hero, a proto-capitalist, and a Marxist pioneer. In the second half of the program we speak with people whose lives are closely linked to the great Dutch Master: a copyist, a collector , an art dealer, and curators who are wondering whether our adulation of Rembrandt is not undermining our appreciation for other artists.
Transcript
REMBRANDT ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
00:00-00:59 Billboard
MUSIC: ?Studentendans? ( This year marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of the painter Rembrandt van Rijn. Radio Netherlands, the Dutch International service presents a portrait of one of the greatest artists who ever lived. SCHWARTZ: Rembrandt by the time he was 25 was a millinaire through his art. He was getting the richest available in the country. (11?) Yet even Rembrandt?s career had its ups and downs, and over the centuries he came to be seen as a hero and a saint by some, and as a rebel and a misfit by others. In the documentary ?Portraits of the Artist?, Marijke van der Meer looks at our changing image of Rembrandt. In the second half of the program, we hear from people whose lives today are...
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Timing and Cues
REMBRANDT ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
00:00-00:59 Billboard
01:00-03:59 News Hole
04:00-19:00 Rembrandt Doco 1 First Half : Portraits of the Artist (15?00?)
19:00-19:59 ONE MINUTE MUSIC BED
20:00-34:00: Rembrandt Doco 1 (? Portraits of the Artist?) Second Half (14?00?)
34:00 (END OF FIRST DOCO PART 2 [14?00?]
34:00-39:00 Start of REMBRANDT DOCO 2: ?Copyists, Collectors and Curators?, Part 1 (5 min)
39:00-39:59 ONE-MINUTE MUSIC BED
40:00-59:00 Rembrandt Doco 2, Part 2 (18-19 min)
Musical Works
Audiotheek #. Music Title Sound Carrier Title Label/Catalogue Performer Composers Min Sec
Album= Practicing Time and Art; comp. Johan Snep, ? Sonate I in D minor, RN Music, MCCL 92111, uitv. ?t Uitnement Kabinet, 2 min.
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, comp. P. Hellendaal, ?Concerto Grosso V in D major? , RNWO 1992, cond. JW de Vriend , NM classics 92019, 1 min.
Tchaikovsky, ? Auf der Wiese?, 1 min.
Beethoven, Piano Concerto no. 5 in Es, op. 73, CGB orkest and Claudio Arrau, Philips, 00289 4768540, wet 4768538, 1 min.
Rimsky, Sadko, opus 5, C. 200057, R?dam Phil. Ork., D. Zinman, Philips 411.446-2. 1 min.
Rembrandt cantate, Strategier, 1956, B071730, Residentie Ork., Wm. Mizee, RNWO 13.71956, 30 sec.
?Natural Science? album, ?Micrology?, K. Mansfield comp., KPM 98CD, C205.267, 1?30?
?Studentendans? (<CD ?Jan Steen Schilder en Verteller?)m Camerata Trajectina perf., Globe GLO 6040, used 4 times, total of about 5 minutes.
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Review of Rembrandt Anniversary Special
How comforting to know that as we grapple with global threats and wars at the beginning of the 21st century we can count on the durability and beauty of human expression. The fact that the Dutch are celebrating 400 years of Rembrandt's impact on art and culture reminds us of our universalities, not our differences.
Radio Netherlands has produced a cornucopia of programming to commemorate their great Baroque master. This documentary is just one of the offerings. (For more programming, see the website.)
Producer Marijke van der Meer has thoroughly researched her subject from biographical notes and stylistic analysis to the changing perceptions of the artist through the ages. It's interesting, for instance, that he was romanticized in the 19th century by a poet as unsentimental as Baudelaire, and worshipped by the tortured Van Gogh, who longed for spiritual nurturing. As the documentary looks back on our recent 20th century history, we can see that Rembrandt was claimed as a Germanic model by the Nazis, and later grabbed by Marxists. Good interviews with experts and nice scripting keep the narrative fresh.
For me, the second half of the program is the most interesting because the producer interviews a Rembrandt copyist, a collector and a curator to inform how the artist resonates today. I appreciate van der Meer's tenacity in getting her subjects to respond in unvarnished ways.
At a time when European nations are reclaiming art from American museums for repatriation, it is refreshing that Radio Netherlands is willing to share its cultural icon with the rest us.