GUM.Rembrandt

Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn belongs to the creators with a hard and creative human destiny. He knew poverty and a life of luxury, years of happy marriage and decades of litigation by inheritance of the wife, the joy of having children and intolerable bitterness of their loss, and premature death of his wife. He during his life he achieved great fame and experienced creative enthusiasm when writing your next masterpiece. But he felt the deepest humiliation, when the bailiffs described his property up to the last etching, and Protestant moralists condemned as wasteful, not being able to understand the enthusiasm impulses and his wide artistic nature. The book provides new insights into the life of a brilliant artist who worked in a particular socio-religious environment of the Netherlands of his time.