Press release - 28 October 2014 07:45

Major loan of Rembrandt works to Budapest

Nationalmuseum has made a major loan of 17^th-century Dutch paintings to an exhibition at Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. The exhibition opens on 31 October and surveys one of the golden ages of European culture. The loan comprises some 30 works form the museum’s prominent collection, among them The Kitchen Maid by Rembrandt.

31 October the exhibition Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age opens at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. It is a large-scale exhibition that surveys the period of 17^th-century Dutch art, one of the golden ages of European culture. The exhibition is built around Rembrandt, the greatest master of the period, by whom 20 masterpieces will be on display, one of them The Kitchen Maid from Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.

The exhibition will showcase over 170 works by some 100 Dutch painters from the 17^th-Century. Nationalmuseum has contributed some 30 works from its collection of Dutch paintings. The paintings on loan include artists such as Rembrandt, Judith Leyster, Hendrick Terbrugghen, Johannes Bosschaert och Jan Davidsz. de Heem. The exhibition is a collaboration between Museum of Fine Arts, Nationalmuseum, Rijksmuseum and The Kremer Collection.

With the Nationalmuseum building closed for renovation until 2017, the museum is able to loan out artworks from its collections to a greater extent than usual, both within Sweden and worldwide. Selected pieces from the collections are on display in temporary galleries at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts (Konstakademien) in Stockholm and in exhibitions co-produced with regional museums and art galleries across Sweden.

Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Ageis on show at Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary, from 31 October to 15 February 2015. More information at http://www.szepmuveszeti.hu.

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Hanna Tottmar, Press Officer Nationalmuseum, hanna.tottmar@nationalmuseum.se, +46 767 23 46 32

Caption
Rembrandt Harmensz. Rijn, The Kitchen Maid. Photo: Åsa Lundén/Nationalmuseum.

Nationalmuseum is Sweden’s premier museum of art and design. The collections comprise older paintings, sculpture, drawings and graphic art, and applied art and design up to the present day. The museum building is currently under renovation and scheduled to open again in 2017. In the meantime, the museum will continue its activities through collaborations, touring exhibitions and a temporary venue at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Fredsgatan 12, Stockholm. Nationalmuseum collaborates with Svenska Dagbladet, FCB Fältman & Malmén and Grand Hôtel Stockholm. For more information visit www.nationalmuseum.se.

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Nationalmuseum is Sweden’s museum of art and design. The collections include paintings, sculpture, drawings and graphic art from the 16th century up to the beginning of the 20th century and the collection of applied art and design up to the present day. The total amount of objects is around 700,000. .

The emphasis of the collection of paintings is on Swedish 18th and 19th century painting. Dutch painting from the 17th century is also well represented, and the French 18th century collection is regarded as one of the best in the world. The works are made by artists such as Rembrandt, Rubens, Goya, Boucher, Watteau, Renoir and Degas as well as Swedish artists such as Anders Zorn, Carl Larsson, Ernst Josephson and Carl Fredrik Hill.

The collection of applied art and design consists of objects such as ceramics, textiles, glass and precious and non-precious metals as well as furniture and books etc. The collection of prints and drawings comprises works by Rembrandt, Watteau, Manet, Sergel, Carl Larsson, Carl Fredrik Hill and Ernst Josephson. Central are the 2,000 master drawings that Carl Gustaf Tessin acquired during his tour of duty as Sweden's ambassador to France in the 18th century.

Art and objects from Nationalmuseum’s collections can also be seen at several royal palaces such as Gripsholm, Drottningholm, Strömsholm, Rosersberg and Ulriksdal as well as in the Swedish Institute in Paris. The museum administers the Swedish National Portrait Gallery at Gripsholm Castle, the world’s oldest national portrait gallery and the Gustavsberg collection with approximately 45,000 objects manufactured at the Gustavsberg Porcelain Factory. Nationalmuseum also curates exhibitions at Nationalmuseum Jamtli and the Gustavsberg Porcelain Museum.

Nationalmuseum is a government authority with a mandate to preserve cultural heritage and promote art, interest in art and knowledge of art and that falls within the remit of the Swedish Ministry of Culture.

Major loan of Rembrandt works to Budapest

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