Over the next three years, the Jewish Museum and Center for Tolerance and the State Hermitage Museum will present several joint exhibitions.
The program will begin with early works by Rembrandt. The painting «Portrait of a Young Man with a Lace Collar» and a series of self-portrait etchings by the artist from the Hermitage collection will be brought to Moscow.
Next, there will be an exhibition dedicated to Rembrandt’s painting «The Fall of Amana, ” one of the most enigmatic pieces in the Hermitage collection. Following this, the Jewish Museum will partner in the large-scale exhibition „New Holland: Glorified and Forgotten Artists of the 17th Century, ” which will conclude the Hermitage’s many years of research and restoration work with its Dutch painting collection.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. «Aman Learns His Fate» («The Fall of Aman»). Circa 1665. State Hermitage Museum.
The launch of the three-year program followed an agreement signed between the State Hermitage Museum, the Jewish Museum, and the Center for Tolerance and the «Hermitage XXI Century» Foundation. According to the General Director of the Hermitage, Mikhail Piotrovsky, the collaboration between the museums centers on the theme of the role of the Old Testament and the Jewish community of the Netherlands in shaping the Dutch artistic tradition. The Director of the Jewish Museum and the Center for Tolerance, Alexander Boroda, noted that the partnership with the Hermitage, which holds one of the largest collections of Rembrandt’s works, will allow visitors to rediscover the artist’s heritage and will be a significant event in the country’s cultural life.
