Rembrandt Year 2019
All exhibitions and events
The year 2019 marks the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt van Rijn’s death. Special exhibitions and presentations will be held throughout the year, in venues that include the Rijksmuseum, Museum Het Rembrandthuis, and the Mauritshuis. Other museums and locations throughout the Netherlands and surrounding countries will also give predominance to the Dutch Golden Age of Rembrandt and his contemporaries.
Listed below are all the special exhibitions and events that are organized to celebrate the life and works of this remarkable Golden Age painter and his contemporaries. Events are listed chronologically and all links are opened in a new tab.
For our regular listing of exhibitions, please see codart.nl/guide/agenda/
The Netherlands
Rembrandt in Paris. Manet, Meryon, Degas and the Rediscovery of Etching (1830-1890)
21 September 2018 – 6 January 2019
Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam (museum website)
Rembrandt Conservation Histories (International Symposium)
8 November – 9 November 2018
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (symposium website)
Work, Pray and Admire: New Views on Art and Calvinism
11 November 2018 – 26 May 2019
Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht (museum website)
Rembrandt and Saskia. Love and Marriage in the Dutch Golden Age
24 November 2018 – 24 March 2019
Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (museum website)
Johan van Oldenbarneveldt: Man, Might and Murder
1 December 2018 – 14 April 2019
Haags Historisch Museum, Den Haag (museum website)
Rembrandt Privé
7 December 2018 – 7 April 2019
Amsterdam City Archives (city archives website)
Rembrandt and the Mauritshuis
31 January – 15 September 2019
Mauritshuis, The Hague (museum website)
Rembrandt’s Social Network. Family, Friends and Acquaintances
1 February – 19 May 2019
Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam (museum website)
All the Rembrandts
15 February – 10 June 2019
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (museum website)
Shifting Image: In Search of Johan Maurits
4 April -7 July 2019
Mauritshuis, Den Haag (museum website)
Gloss, Glory and Misery: The Golden Age In The Hague
28 April – 8 September 2019
Haags Historisch Museum, The Hague (museum website)
Rembrandt’s World
11 May – 15 September 2019
Teylers Museum, Haarlem (museum website)
Inspired by Rembrandt: 100 Years of Collecting by The Rembrandt House Museum
7 June – 1 September 2019
Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam (museum website)
Rembrandt & the Dutch Golden Age
20 June – 3 October 2019
Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden (museum website)
Rembrandt?!
28 June – 8 September 2019
Groninger Museum, Groningen (museum website)
Rembrandt again?! Birth of a national hero in the 19th century (small display)
11 July – 31 December 2019
RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague (RKD website)
Rembrandt Laboratory: Rembrandt’s Technique Unravelled
21 September 2019 – 16 February 2020
Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam (museum website)
Rembrandt-Velázquez (working title)
11 October 2019 – 19 January 2020
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (museum website)
Pieter de Hooch, Delft Master of the Dutch Golden Age
11 October 2019 -16 February 2020
Museum Prinsenhof Delft (museum website)
Nicolaes Maes: Rembrandt’s Versatile Pupil
17 October 2019 – 19 January 2020
Mauritshuis, The Hague (museum website)
Cool Waters
26 October 2019 – 26 January 2020
Westfries Museum, Hoorn (museum website)
Young Rembrandt – Rising Star
2 November 2019 – 9 February 2020
Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden (organized by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford) (museum website)
Drawings by Rembrandt: Connecting art history, science and conservation (International Symposium)
6 – 7 February 2020
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (symposium website)
Austria
Lifelines – Rembrandt in the Art Collections of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
20 June – 22 September 2019
Kupferstichkabinett der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien (museum website)
Golden Times: 17th-century Dutch Painting
3 August 2019 – 12 December 2020
Residenzgalerie, Salzburg (museum website)
Canada
In the Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings from the Museum of Fine Art, Boston
1 June – 15 September 2019
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (museum website)
Leiden circa 1630: Rembrandt Emerges
24 August – 1 December 2019
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston (museum website)
Leiden circa 1630: Rembrandt Emerges
7 march – 2 July 2020
Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton (organized by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston
Leiden circa 1630: Rembrandt Emerges
22 August 2020 – 3 January 2021
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina (organized by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston
Leiden circa 1630: Rembrandt Emerges
13 February – 30 May 2021
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton (organized by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston
Czech Repulic
Inside Rembrandt
14 April – 13 August 2020
National Gallery, Prague (museum website), in collaboration with the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne where it will be on view from 31 October 2019.
Germany
Kassel… verliebt in Saskia. Liebe und Ehe in Rembrandts Zeit
12 April – 11 August 2019
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Kassel (museum website)
Rembrandt’s Mark
14 June – 15 September 2019
Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (museum website)
Rembrandt: Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung
30 August 2019 – 5 January 2020
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (museum website)
Het Beste van Rembrandt – Drawings and Etchings of the Munich Collection
27 September – 13 October 2019
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Munich (museum website)
Rembrandt. Selected Master Graphics of the Schweriner Collection
19 October 2019 – 5 January 2020
Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Schwerin (museum website)
Inside Rembrandt
31 October 2019 – 1 March 2020
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne (museum website), in collaboration with the National Gallery in Prague, where it will be on view from 14 April to 13 August 2020.
Hungary
Rembrandt and His Pupils. Drawings and Etchings from the Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
20 September 2019 – 5 January 2020
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (museum website)
Ireland
Rembrandt in Print
22 May – 23 August 2020
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (organized by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) (museum website)
Poland
Rembrandt at the Royal Łazienki. Landscape with the Good Samaritan from The Princes Czartoryski Museum – National Museum in Kraków
3 April – 5 May 2019
Royal Łazienki Museum, Warsaw (museum website)
Rembrandt in Person: Prints from the Collection of the National Museum in Warsaw
4 October – 3 November 2019
National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw (museum website)
36 x Rembrandt
5 October – 3 November 2019
The Royal Castle, Warsaw (museum website)
Russia
The Fall of Haman: Rembrandt’s Picture in the Mirror of Time
5 October 2019 – 19 January 2020
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (museum website)
Spain
Velázquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer: Parallel Visions
25 June – 29 September 2019
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (museum website)
Rembrandt and Amsterdam portraiture, 1590-1670
18 February – 24 May 2020
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (museum website)
Ukraine
Rembrandt TM
23 October – 15 December 2019
The Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts, Kiev (museum website)
United Arab Emirates
Rembrandt, Vermeer & The Dutch Golden Age
14 February – 18 May 2019
Louvre Abu Dhabi (in collaboration with The Leiden Collection), Abu Dhabi (museum website)
United Kingdom
Rembrandt: Thinking on Paper
7 February – 4 August 2019
British Museum, London (museum website)
Rembrandt in Print
1 June – 15 September 2019
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool (organized by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) (museum website)
Rembrandt: Thinking on Paper Study Day
24 June 2019 (organised in conjunction with the exhibition Thinking on Paper at the British Museum)
The Warburg Institute, London (event website)
Rembrandt’s Light
4 October 2019 – 2 February 2020
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London (museum website)
Rembrandt in Print
4 October 2019 – 5 January 2020
The Holburne Museum, Bath (organized by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) (museum website)
Rembrandt #nofilter
4 October 2019 – 12 January 2020
Kenwood, English Heritage, London (museum website)
Rembrandt in Print
18 January – 19 April 2020
North Hertfordshire Museum, Hitchin (organized by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) (museum website)
Nicolaes Maes: Dutch Master of the Golden Age
22 February – 31 May 2020
The National Gallery, London (in collaboration with The Mauritshuis, The Hague) (museum website)
Young Rembrandt
27 February – 7 June 2020
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (in collaboration with the Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden) (museum website)
United States of America
Rembrandt: Painter as Printmaker
16 September 2018 – 6 January 2019
Denver Art Museum, Denver (museum website)
Life in the Age of Rembrandt
1 February – 16 June 2019
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio (museum website)
Rembrandt Etchings: States, Fakes, and Restrikes
18 January – 1 March 2019
Hand Art Center, Stetson University, DeLand, Florida (museum website)
Rembrandt Portraits
3 March – 9 June 2019
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (museum website)
Rembrandt and the Jewish Experience: The Berger Print Collection
15 March – 30 June 2019
Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia (museum website)
Rembrandt Etchings
9 April – 1 June 2019
Kruizenga Art Museum, Holland, Michigan (museum website)
Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Rembrandt
30 April – 28 July 2019
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (museum website)
Through a Glass, Darkly: Allegory and Faith in Netherlandish Prints from Lucas van Leyden to Rembrandt
31 August – 1 December 2019
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, Georgia (museum website)
Rembrandt Drawings from the Peck Collection
4 -20 October 2019
Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (museum website)
Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age
28 September 2019 – 5 January 2020
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (museum website)
Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt
20 October 2019 – 12 January 2020
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis (in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) (museum website)
Rembrandt in Southern California
Virtual exhibition with works from the Hammer Museum, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Los Angeles the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, and the Timken Museum of Art in San Diego.
Zimbabwe
Rembrandt@350: Zimbabwe remasters a Dutch icon
The exhibition features local artists inspired by Rembrandt, as well as six original etchings, and a life-size Night Watch print.
24 October – 14 November
National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare (in cooperation with the Dutch Embassy in Harare, see the museum website for information)
Rembrandt@350: Zimbabwe remasters a Dutch icon
The exhibition features local artists inspired by Rembrandt, as well as six original etchings, and a life-size Night Watch print.
25 November – 17 December
National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo (in cooperation with the Dutch Embassy in Harare, see the museum website for information)
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Last updated: 16 October 2019