Language:
English
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Simiolus; Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art
Angaben zur Quelle:
28,3 (2000-2001) 181-197
Keywords:
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn,
;
Kolloff, Eduard
;
Jews
;
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
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Christianity
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Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
Jews History 1500-1800
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
After a discussion of the background and ideas of the art historian Eduard Kolloff (1811-1879), who was one of the first to present a (one-sidedly) philosemitic view of Rembrandt and his relations with Jews, pp. 192-197 discuss German Jewish scholars Erwin Panofsky, Netty Reiling (i.e. Anna Seghers), Julius Bab, Wolfgang Stechow, and Franz Landsberger, who in works written in the 1920s-40s exalted Rembrandt as "a paragon of humanitarianism". Rembrandt's appreciation of Jews was perceived by these scholars, some of them exiles from Nazism, as an ideal to juxtapose against the antisemitism of their times. One very popular German antisemitic work, first published in 1890, was Julius Langbehn's proto-fascist "Rembrandt als Erzieher: Von einem Deutschen". This book, which became even more hostile to Jews in later editions, represents part of the background against which German Jewish scholars were reacting.
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