By Schiffmacher & Veldhoen live @ Museum Rembrandthuis
Due to its success in 2023, The Poor Man’s Rembrandt Project is returning to the Rembrandt House Museum! Henk Schiffmacher and his team of tattoo artists will be setting up their studio in Rembrandt’s house from 26 October to 7 November. For two weeks, you can have an original Rembrandt tattoo done by this world-famous team.
Want to be sure of a masterpiece? From 28 September, you can book a time slot. Keep an eye on this page for more information. Tattoo prices range from 100 to 350 euros. A deposit of 50 euros is required when booking. We reserve a number of slots each day for walk-ins, but if you want to be sure of a spot, please book a time slot in advance.
Henk Schiffmacher: ‘Worldwide, more tattoos are sold than works of art to hang on your wall. An old tattoo artist once called tattoos ‘The Poor Man’s Rembrandt’: a work of art that is more affordable than a painting by one of the old masters, but no less carefully executed and selected. Many people also build up a real collection of tattoos from specific tattoo artists. They come to us because they want to add Schiffmacher & Veldhoen to their life-long collection. For us, it is an incredible honour to work in the place where Rembrandt’s soul can still be felt, and to work with his etchings and drawings. Grand and small art coming together.’
Rembrandt Forever
Rembrandt and Schiffmacher & Veldhoen have much in common: they are world-famous, masters of their craft and deeply rooted in the DNA of Amsterdam. Their art also has important similarities: with both etchings and tattoos, it all starts with a drawing, which is then applied to the surface with ink and needle. Where Rembrandt used a copper plate and sheet of paper to turn his composition into an etching, tattoo artists apply their drawing to human skin; the end result is a work of art that you carry with you for life.
Schiffmacher and his team will set up their studio in the modern museum wing of Museum Rembrandthuis. In the seventeenth century, the building on the Jodenbreestraat was a cultural hub, where Rembrandt, his assistants and his pupils worked together on their artworks. Now, a new generation of twenty-first-century artists set up their studio here. The museum thus remains a place buzzing with innovation and experiment. At the same time, the centuries-old art of etching and ink drawing are kept alive.
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