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Celebrating Rembrandt: True to life, world-leading Rembrandt scholar Dr Betsy Wieseman, Curator of Northern European Paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., joins us in Melbourne to provide an in-depth look at the scope of Rembrandt’s creative innovation.
Using examples from the NGV’s extensive holdings of Rembrandt works, the most important Rembrandt collection in the Southern Hemisphere, Wieseman will contextualise these works within the most recent scholarship on the seventeenth-century Dutch master. Her talk will focus on Rembrandt’s creative process and the extraordinary inventiveness of his technique across three media: painting, drawing, and printmaking.
Rembrandt: True to life follows the work of Rembrandt from his early years in Leiden in the 1620s through to his final years in Amsterdam in the 1660s. Exploring the artist’s self-portraits and portraits, religious motifs, landscapes, nudes and genre scenes, the exhibition brings his prints into dialogue with a selection of paintings to highlight the original ways in which Rembrandt approached his subject matter.
Includes a welcome by NGV Curator Petra Kayser, and an opportunity to view the exhibition from 5.15–6.15pm.
Exhibition Viewing
5.15–6.15pm
Presentation
6.30–7.30pm
Speaker
Dr Marjorie E. (Betsy) Wieseman has worked at museums in the United States including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College; the Cincinnati Art Museum; and the Cleveland Museum of Art. From 2006 to 2017 she was Curator of Dutch Paintings 1600–1800, and subsequently Curator of Dutch and Flemish Paintings 1600–1800, at the National Gallery, London. Since 2019, she has been Curator and Head of the Department of Northern European Paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. She has curated exhibitions on Rembrandt, Rubens, and Vermeer (among others) and published widely on those artists, as well as on topics such as portrait miniatures, genre painting, technical art history, and the history of collecting.
Scholars Series
Scholars Series is a stream of in-depth presentations by experts in art and art history that uncover the stories behind works from the NGV Collection.
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