Rudi FuchsRembrandt spricht

Rembrandt unplugged! With his plain literary language and his precise descriptions of almost photographically exact observations, Rudi Fuchs allows us to share in the development and perfection of one of the greatest Dutch painters of the Baroque, who was only raised in the twentieth century to the status of painter-icon of the Golden Age. Rudi Fuchs, himself was a famous museum man and an influential curator of contemporary art (documenta 7, among others), has visited many hundreds of studios over the decades and conducted just as many conversations with artists; now, at last, he takes us with him on his imagined visits to Rembrandt’s studio, looks over the shoulder of his famous compatriot with great concentration as a carefully chosen selection of his most important works comes into being, and truly provides us with an impressive panorama of Rembrandt’s output. In fact, then, Rudi Fuchs lets his Rembrandt speak, as he pursues the concrete painterly solutions with him step by step, from one picture to the next, perhaps by way of a sketch or an etching. For there is one thing that has never released its hold on art history either: Rembrandt reinvented himself again and again; he is regarded as perhaps one of the most unconventional painters of the seventeenth century, forever in search of new solutions.