The name Peter Paul Rubens stands for monumental formats, for opulence and billowing bodies, but also for a diplomatic cosmopolitan who was courted by churches and kings in his time.
How the Flemish apprentice became the most successful Baroque painter, a serial painter with a network and a large workshop, that is what the Stuttgart State Gallery intends in the coming months with its new exhibition entitled “Becoming famous.
Stuttgart - Peter Paul Rubens ”show.
Around 90 works - including from his own collection - are to point the way in all vitality by February 20, 2022, which Rubens (1577-1640) led to later success from his early creative years.
Skillfully and early on, with the necessary start-up capital from his own family, the artist got to know influential friends and later sponsors, knitted a network and gained influence with artistic talent and ambition, said curator Sandra-Kristin Diefenthaler on the Thursday before the opening of the show.
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The Rubens paintings collected for the Stuttgart exhibition include, in addition to secured Rubens originals, pieces from the master’s Antwerp picture factory as well as paintings that may only come from the Flemish hand or house.
"Above all, it becomes clear how he relied on teamwork at a very early stage in order to be able to fulfill orders more quickly and successfully," said Diefenthaler.
Already revered as the "God of painters" during his lifetime, kings stood in line with Rubens, who was born in Siegen.
In his huge workshop, he often worked on several pictures at the same time, instructing students, dictating letters, having people read to him and listening to music.
Today, however, Rubens pictures are often difficult to understand, as their symbolic language full of allusions to classical mythology is no longer familiar to the modern viewer.
To see how this star of the baroque age was also an entrepreneur and assembly line artist, it is worth the trip to the State Gallery.
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