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Amsterdam museum offers visitors Rembrandt-themed tattoos

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: Agencies
  • 24 May 17:42

The initiative titled “Poor Man’s Rembrandt Project” aims at connecting new artists with a wider audience in Amsterdam.

  • Rembrandt, Self-Portrait with curly hair, c. 1629 (The Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
    Rembrandt self-portrait with curly hair, c. 1629 (The Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands)

The forthcoming exhibition at Amsterdam’s Rembrandt House Museum (otherwise known as Museum Rembrandthuis) is working with a local tattoo parlor to engrave Rembrandt-inspired illustrations on the bodies of visitors.

The initiative titled “Poor Man’s Rembrandt Project” aims at connecting new artists with audiences in Amsterdam.

Four tattoo artists will be on hand in the museum in late June 2023, charging between $109 and $272 for tattoos inspired by the life and work of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn.

“We see ourselves as the artists’ house,” Milou Halbesma, director of the Rembrandt House Museum, said as quoted by the Guardian.

 
 
 
 
 
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“Rembrandt was not just living there and working there, but also teaching his pupils. We want to work in our new studio space with Dutch artists to connect with the public—and we consider Schiffmacher & Veldhoen artists. It’s about the challenge for every museum: to reach the next generation," Halbesma added.

The project, according to Henk Schiffmacher, a tattoo artist with a 45-year career who organized the first big tattoo conventions in Europe, is an example of "grand and small art coming together."

It is worth noting that Rembrandt, who was born in 1631, was an outstanding Dutch Golden Age painter who spent many years creating art in Amsterdam.

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