Kupferstichkabinett opens exhibition of drawings from the Rembrandt School

Rembrandt or not Rembrandt? Drawings by the celebrated Dutch master have always been mixed up with those by his disciples and assistants who worked in the same style. Research carried out over the last years has led to a fundamental reappraisal of Rembrandt’s drawings that also affects the outstanding holdings of the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett. The exhibition presents approximately a hundred of the best drawings by artists in Rem-brandt’s circle as well as several originals by Rembrandt from our own collection and from other museums. In recent years, the authenticity of Rembrandt’s drawings has greatly ex-ercised the few experts working in this field – with astonishing results: More than half of the drawings listed as autograph in the magisterial cata-logue raisonné compiled between 1954 and 1957 by Otto Benesch, the Viennese art historian and director of the Albertina, are now regarded as works by students and assistants. This has a major