Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-University

Tuesday 10 December/Wednesday 11 December 2019

Venue: Historic Observatory/Historische Sternwarte

Geismar Landstraße 11

Tuesday, 10 December

10:00-10:15     Welcome and Introduction (Martin van Gelderen, Ivan Gaskell)

10:15-11:15     Ivan Gaskell (Bard Graduate Center, New York City): Face to Face with Rembrandt

11:15-11:45     Coffee/Tea Break

11:45-12:45     An Van Camp (Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford): Young Rembrandt as an Experimental and Innovative Printmaker

12:45-14:00     Lunch

14:00-15:00     Ann-Sophie Lehmann (University of Groningen): Rembrandt’s Ovals and the Moves of Etching

15:00-15:30     Coffee/Tea Break

15:30-16:30     Martin van Gelderen (Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen): Republic and Toleration: Grotius and Rembrandt

19:00               Dinner

Wednesday, 11 December

9:30-10:30       Ulrike Kern (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main): Tricks and Truth in Rembrandt’s Shadows. A Discussion of the Early Etchings

10:30-11:00     Coffee/Tea Break

11:00-12:00     Justus Lange (Old Masters Pictures Gallery, Kassel): Rembrandt and Saskia: Marriage, Model, and Marketing

12:00-13:00     Allison Stielau (University College London): Convention and Innovation in Rembrandt’s Portrait of Jan Lutma

13:00-14:00     Lunch

14:00-15:00     Leonore van Sloten (Rembrandt house Museum, Amsterdam): Rembrandt, The New Hollstein Dutch at home @ The Rembrandt House Museum

15:00-16:00     Anne-Katrin Sors (Georg-August-University, Göttingen): Rembrandt in Göttingen and the reception of Rembrandt in the 18th century