DOI article:
Kozieł, Andrzej: Rembrandt van Rijn and Michael Willmann, or a story of dispelling a certain myth
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ri;mrrani)i van run and miciiai i. wii.i.mann
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18. Michael Willmann, Beheading ofSt. Paul, 1661, etching, 269 x 197 mm,
Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe. Photo Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw
from the main altar of the abbey church in Lubiąż. Contrary to Rembrandt, Willmann did not treat producing
etchings as an autonomous part of his création; as soon as he commenced working for the church publishers
as a designer of the popular, printed in large quantities, religious images, which were prepared by profes-
sional etchers, as early as in 1683 he gave up designing his own etchings.
This humble number of Rembrandt's models, used by Willmann in his mature works is still significant,
as Rembrandt since the second half of the seventeenth century already was more and more appreciated and
well-known in Silesia. His prints were even applied by some Silesian artists. As the model corne the etching
of Christ before Pilate by Jan Gillisz. van Vliet and Rembrandt of ca. 1636: its exact сору was created al-
ready in 1660 by an unknown artist in the painting of the same subject in the monastery of the Brothers
Hospitaliers in Prudnik (Neustadt)83, and repeating the heads of the most important figures in the later school
drawing by Johann Jacob Eyblewieser, a guild master from Wrocław (Herzog Anton Ulrich-Muséum,
Brunswick)84. In the Silesian collections of art works there were some paintings and numerous etchings
known as released by Rembrandt, and he himself was received as one of "the great masters". A large collec-
tion of fifty-eight prints assumed to be Rembrandt's works was part of the collection of Albrecht Saebisch,
an architect and city arsenals inspecter85, and another collecter from Wrocław, Ernst Benjamin von Lôwenstadt
83 See A. Kozi e ł, Barok i rokoko, [in: ] Op Nederlandse Manier..., p. 93, and B. Stein b о r n, Р. O s z с z a n o w s к i.
Aneks. Spis rycin użytych w obrazach śląskich od XVI do polowy XVII wieku, [in:J Niderlandyzm na Śląsku..., p. 69, no. 103.
84 See Kozieł, Rysunki..., cat: Johann Jacob Eybelwieser, no. Л. II. I, lig. 280.
X5 See Verzeichnis der vom Schlesischen Muséum der bildenden Ktinste von der Stadtbibliothek zu Breslau zur Aufbewahrung
173
18. Michael Willmann, Beheading ofSt. Paul, 1661, etching, 269 x 197 mm,
Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe. Photo Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw
from the main altar of the abbey church in Lubiąż. Contrary to Rembrandt, Willmann did not treat producing
etchings as an autonomous part of his création; as soon as he commenced working for the church publishers
as a designer of the popular, printed in large quantities, religious images, which were prepared by profes-
sional etchers, as early as in 1683 he gave up designing his own etchings.
This humble number of Rembrandt's models, used by Willmann in his mature works is still significant,
as Rembrandt since the second half of the seventeenth century already was more and more appreciated and
well-known in Silesia. His prints were even applied by some Silesian artists. As the model corne the etching
of Christ before Pilate by Jan Gillisz. van Vliet and Rembrandt of ca. 1636: its exact сору was created al-
ready in 1660 by an unknown artist in the painting of the same subject in the monastery of the Brothers
Hospitaliers in Prudnik (Neustadt)83, and repeating the heads of the most important figures in the later school
drawing by Johann Jacob Eyblewieser, a guild master from Wrocław (Herzog Anton Ulrich-Muséum,
Brunswick)84. In the Silesian collections of art works there were some paintings and numerous etchings
known as released by Rembrandt, and he himself was received as one of "the great masters". A large collec-
tion of fifty-eight prints assumed to be Rembrandt's works was part of the collection of Albrecht Saebisch,
an architect and city arsenals inspecter85, and another collecter from Wrocław, Ernst Benjamin von Lôwenstadt
83 See A. Kozi e ł, Barok i rokoko, [in: ] Op Nederlandse Manier..., p. 93, and B. Stein b о r n, Р. O s z с z a n o w s к i.
Aneks. Spis rycin użytych w obrazach śląskich od XVI do polowy XVII wieku, [in:J Niderlandyzm na Śląsku..., p. 69, no. 103.
84 See Kozieł, Rysunki..., cat: Johann Jacob Eybelwieser, no. Л. II. I, lig. 280.
X5 See Verzeichnis der vom Schlesischen Muséum der bildenden Ktinste von der Stadtbibliothek zu Breslau zur Aufbewahrung