Rembrandt’s Amsterdam
Golden Times?

Name: Rembrandt’s Amsterdam
Start: 2024-11-27
End: 2025-03-23
Location: Städel Museum

27 Nov 2024–23 Mar 2025

Wealth and poverty, happiness and ruin, power and powerlessness: the Städel Museum takes an unvarnished look at the social reality of Amsterdam society in the 17th century. Experience Amsterdam on the Main with important works by Rembrandt and his contemporaries.

Your Visit

Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun 10 am – 6 pm
Thur 10 am – 9 pm
Mon closed
- Opening hours
Entry €18 / €16, €9 Tue from 3 pm
- Ticket information
Schaumainkai 63, 60596 Frankfurt am Main
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Programme
for this exhibition

Sunday
- 29 Dec
  2 pm
  3 hrs
  Open Studio
  In the open studio, children can explore their creativity
  - Rembrandt’s Amsterdam
  - From 6 years

About the Exhibition

Amsterdam—one city with many faces. In the 17th century, Amsterdam was the metropolis in Europe. The economy and trade were booming, the population rapidly increased, and the arts and sciences flourished. An influential civic society shaped the city’s fortunes and glorified itself in splendid group portraits made by the greatest Dutch painters of the age, foremost among them Rembrandt, alongside Jacob Backer, Ferdinand Bol, Govert Flinck, Bartholomeus van der Helst, Nicolaes Eliasz. Pickenoy, and Jan Victors. But Amsterdam’s prosperity came at a price, rooted in colonialist trade policies and a strict social order. The Städel Museum looks back on a supposedly “Golden Age” and, in cooperation with the Amsterdam Museum, presents the portrait art of the Rembrandt period in a major exhibition.

With this exhibition, we are bringing Rembrandt’s Amsterdam to the Städel Museum. By taking a critical look at the realities of 17th-century Amsterdam, we engage with the ongoing discourse surrounding the re-evaluation of the Netherlands’ ‘Golden Age’.

Philipp Demandt, Director, Städel Museum

Johannes Lingelbach (1622–1674)
View of Dam Square with the New Town Hall under Construction, 1656
Nicolaes Eliasz Pickenoy (1588–1650/56) or Werner van den Valckert (attributed)
The Osteology Lesson of Dr Sebastiaen Egbertsz, 1619
Govert Flinck (1615–1660)
Company of Crossbowmen (Voetboogschutters) under Captain Joan Huydecoper and Lieutenant Frans van Waveren, 1648/50
Exhibition Film

The magnificent group portraits of the Amsterdam Museum are at the centre of the exhibition. These works are rarely lent out, and this is the first large-scale presentation of them in Germany. Around 100 paintings, sculptures and prints and cultural and historical artefacts from other prominent Dutch and international museums will be on view in Frankfurt, including masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Koninklijk Museum van Schone Kunsten in Antwerp and the Muzeum Narodowe in Warsaw. The exhibition will also feature remarkable works by Rembrandt and his contemporaries from the Städel Museum’s own collection.

Curator Städel Museum
Prof Dr Jochen Sander (Deputy Director and Head of the Collection of Dutch, Flemish and German painting before 1800, Städel Museum)

Project Management
Corinna Gannon (Assistant curator, Dutch, Flemish and German painting before 1800, Städel Museum)

An exhibition of the Städel Museum in collaboration with the Amsterdam Museum

Exhibition Views

Our exhibition addresses those individuals who were deemed ‘unworthy of portrayal’ at the time and thus left little mark on the tradition of portraiture. The quest to uncover their stories is both overdue and valuable, as it will enhance our understanding of Rembrandt’s Amsterdam.

Jochen Sander, curator of the exhibition, Deputy Director and Head of the collections of Dutch, Flemish and German painting before 1800, Städel Museum

Gallery

**Johannes Lingelbach (1622–1674)**
View of Dam Square with the New Town Hall under Construction, 1656

**Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1608–1651)**
The Regentesses of the Burgerweeshuis, 1633/34

**Govert Flinck (1615–1660)**
Company of Crossbowmen (Voetboogschutters) under Captain Joan Huydecoper and Lieutenant Frans van Waveren, 1648/50

**Nicolaes Eliasz Pickenoy (1588–1650/56) or Werner van den Valckert (attributed)**
The Osteology Lesson of Dr Sebastiaen Egbertsz, 1619

**Arent de Gelder (1645–1727)**
Self-Portrait as Zeuxis Portraying an Ugly Old Woman, 1685

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606–1669)
Rembrandt, Beggar Seated on a Bank of Earth, 1630

**Arent Arentsz, called Cabel (1585–1631)**
Skaters on the Amstel, ca. 1621

Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem (1622–1683)
Allegory on the Expansion of Amsterdam, ca. 1663

**Unknown Amsterdam artist**
Portrait of ‘Malle Baandje’ (Barend Jansz Bode, 1648–1719?), ca. 1700

**Nicolaes Maes (1634–1693)**
Portrait of a Woman Wearing a Black Dress, ca. 1668–1670

Digitorial
Discover Rembrandt’s Amsterdam from a new perspective. The free Digitorial offers you fascinating background information on the art and culture of a booming metropolis and its society.
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Audio Guide App
Enjoy a tour of the exhibition and discover more about Rembrandt’s Amsterdam and the rapid development of the Dutch metropolis in the 17th century. Available for free in the App Store and Google Play Store.
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