96:. It was during this project that involved leading Rembrandt experts that Haak first got the idea to start a research project to assist in correct attributions. It was his opinion that much of Rembrandt's attributed work at that time was in fact the work of prominent Rembrandt pupils, each of whom deserved attention for their own qualities and achievements. The pressure to keep a Rembrandt attribution was (and still is) often too high however to do much about it.
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viewed his paintings by putting them into the perspective of other contemporary works by
Rembrandt and his pupils, whether it be etchings, drawings, or everyday political events. The scholarly rivalry continued during the course of the 1970s, but there was increasing pressure to publish catalogs and the long-awaited results of the RRP were published in three volumes as
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advocated a different approach based on a holistic study of the paintings, dismissing the age-old ideas of connoisseurship that were seen as being so controversial in favor of using non-controversial forensic techniques as well as archival research and provenance records. Haak was no stranger to the
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in three languages. Though this book only included less than a third of the paintings mentioned in
Bredius' 1935 work, it also included several works by contemporary artists and several drawings and etchings by Rembrandt that had previously not been published. It changed the way Rembrandt scholars
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However, differences of opinion within the team came to a head in 1993, when Haak withdrew from the RRP, along with Bruyn, Levie, and Van Thiel. They left the further organization of the project to their fellow team member Ernst van de
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book to some family friends. The Nazis raided his parents house that night and, finding falsified documents (though failing to find the two Jewish people in hiding in the house), deported them to separate concentration camps. His mother died of "malaria" in
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The declaration that the work was not done however, coming on top of controversies in the art world caused by the publications, resulted in friction in the team. Team member
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The Golden Age: Dutch
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