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THE CHINA MAIL" TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1956.
WORK UNDERWAY ON BIG Amsterdam
AUSTRALIAN
RIVER DAM
Sydney, Feb. 6.
Work is underway on the foundations
Bild in addressed to the of a rock and earth filled dam spanning
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the Eucumbene River. The project, estimated to cost £A6,000,000 (£4,800,000), is part of the Snowy Mountains power scheme.
When complete, the dam will be one of the largest in the world and will hold back eight times more than is contained in Sydney Harbour.
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Tenders for the main work In its travels, falling 2,000 on the dam will be called for dect through the mountains, Births. Deaths, Marriages, Australia, the inited States. will turn i Lurbines of 17 Personal $5.00 per insertion and Britain, and the
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Rapid progress is reported on sections of the project engineering underway.
December Since 1954. of Kaiser-Walsh-Perini - Raymond BRYAN of American contractors have turnelled more than two miles under a moun- tan to dram of the waters of the Excumbene river.
Bama to tender for the contract estimated to take four years to complete. More u 800 men are at present working on The foundations for The Puble Works Department in two ten- hour shifts per day
Adaminaby Dam
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Blowed, of clay will be deposited to from the wall of the dam, Deep the valley floor, giant machines carrying up to 15 tuns of earth each, are combining with bulldozers to put down the first foundation soil.
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The American contractors are new
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Rembrandt Year In Holland
350TH ANNIVERSARY
The Hague, Feb. 6. Holland is this year preparing to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the birth of one of its most famous painters, Rembrandt, with a series of unique artistic displays.
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Two large exhibitions, claimed as the most extensive ever held of Rembrandt's works in anywhere in the world, will be opened Amsterdam and Rotterdam respectively.
The Rijksmuseum (State
Although Rembrandt spent all Museum) In Amsterdam hopes his life in Holland, unlike many to be able to exhibit the greater painters of his time who were part of the some 700 paintings | attracted to and 270 etchings produced by
the
17th century, master.
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York,
Paris.
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muscums
museums
Italy, Dutch only possc69 now some 30 of his 700 paintings. But one of his most famous paintings, commonly called "The Night Watch," hangs int Rijksmuseum where thousands of art lovers come to see it every year.
Rembrandt
Harmensz
the
van
Rijn, to give him his' full name, was born at Leyden on July 15, 1606, the fourth wealthy miller.
D
of son He was only 20 when he first began to attract attention by his paintings, which included "Balmain's Ass,' now hanging in the Cognacq- Jay Muscum in Paris.
But though the son of well- to-do parents and despite the fame and success he knew in his own lime, Rembrandt died in the Erealest poverty in Amsterdam on
on October
4, 1609. He was burled
led at the expense town in the Westerkerk, anest Amsterdam's du churches although the exact
of goaltion
of
unknown.
10
his syrave
Rembrandt began his career early, becoming an apprentice to a a Leyden painter at the age of 14.
He stayed there three his craft and yours learning Thousands then moved to Amsterdam for study under months "Rembrandthuis" x
important Pjøler Lästman, an Amsterdam!
painter who specialised in Biblical and mythological sub- leets and who was to have * considerable influence on him later
19 of and
The
In Museum
an exhibition custody. boasted to the collecting
reproductions press after being caught for the painting",
brandt and his contemporaries photographs of works by Rem- illustrating Amsterdam, as the the master knew it in Dutch
This exhibition 17th century will Jast six months from May 20,
He said he would lake his with him on hits sweetheart European trip.
in
The young painter returned to his home town in 1620 and free from any worries there, about having to earn his living, Museum The Teylers
he began painting and sketching Firat has numerous convictions
He was Northern
whatever pleased him. Holland, for boarding lorries on Anato- Haarlem,
particularly fond of portraying len
and throwing will close the Rembrandt com- highways
and musicians with another vagabonds,
with which he did and beggars, etchings
great realism. until March
en
of
goods out onto the road to be memoration
un by accomplice exhibition picked following in a cor-China Mall (drawings lasting
1957. Special
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Slx Caro jater, finding Leyden too small, ho went again to Amsterdam, then the artistic and cultural centro of the Netherlands and where he won time.
The Rembrandthuls, in which one of the exhibitions will be held this year, was the painter's own house when he was at the height of his success and pros- perity. It is a stately 17th century building, with a spiral staircase, beamed ceiling and white tiled floor in the spacious hall Leading off from the hall
is the "Press room," where an original press
for etchings standa, and where exhibitions illustrating different facets of Rembrandt's varied works are
the left of the hall is the "Seydolcaemer," a large room with a fine tiled floor, an old' Dutch chimneypiece and high, leaded glass windows. This also houses a selection of room Rembrandt's most important
etchs, the artist's "Large"
and "Small" painting rooms have been joined to make one exhibition gallery - whère more of his works are displayed,
Bankrupt
Rembrandt moved into the house five years after his marriage to Säsekia van Uylen- |burgh in 1034, But the house seems to have brought him 11 fortune for financial dificulties beset him almost immediately, and a little leas than threo
ROWNTREES years later, his wife died.
KitKat
vation
Kan
Miguel
His paintings
death
became more mental and
profound while at the same. ime wistful and nostalgic. During this period, he turned to the Bible for inspiration and puinted auch masterpieces AJ
The
Disciples of Emmaya” and "Christ Healing the Sick."
But
by 1050, with his last financial resources used up Rembrandt
doclared bankrupt, and his house, goods
and valuable art collection sold, He continued to paint until the end, though, his works be camo less and less frequent Eight youra
hio bankruptcy; his mistress, and favourite model, .... Hendrikje Bloffein,gled, followed four years, later by his son
ritus.
A Monument
Rembrandt, and his daughter Cornella lived in bliter poverty for the next five years until the paintlada döaih)
Dep
the tragic efrðum sianoss of his doorthi, the works ramska monument to. birKINS and thoumnds of set lovagi, botti trom Holland, and abroad, are exported to visit, the exhibitionM TATTO: Day, tributa, to me