Show Rembrandt to toBe r I Be Subject of New Biography Hendrick Van Loan Stud Stud- I I J Dutch ies DUtch I Background I rp S 'S of f Classic P Painter inte By PIERR PIERRE VAN PARIS J July l 27 27 7 Willem van Tan Loon boon came to Paris recently toBay to Bay that t he het Is w working away on ona a n bol biography of or f Rembrandt Nothing in all aU Holland HI p could be as ns to hi hiru In recreating the Atmosphere oC ot f the gold l c century of t. t Dutch history In which Rem Bern brandt lived as the very ho house sc and town ln In n. n which the author aUthol resides In Zealand Dr van ran Loon oc oc- cupl s g oe of of- those medieval al man mansions man man- that were built buill by merchant n princes when the town to was a a. flour flour- center o of trade Vero cro has r long inci c fallen Into hilo decline but to mansions which were built for tOl eternity eternit r remain intact The TIc rest leSt ot or Holland Is completely modernized modern modern- b d V Vere re on the contrary Is 11 av- av d' d with the he past a n past let It bo be said sad not without grandeur Pr Present d day Vere Vele has has' something 0 ot ox the tle melancholy wistfulness ot or the dea dead cities o of ot Flanders And also tio something ng of or their theil spirituality and mysticism S Soaked In that atmosphere for a af afew afew f few w years Dr van Loon has perhaps per per- perI I Imps haps felt more keenly the thc tragedy of He has Jas moreover more more- over oer wl thin a D- short distance from his hla home hOUle at The Thc Hague and Am- Am the tho masterpieces masterpieces' of or the Dutch master and the tile archives which contain the painters painter's personal letters Jetters and effects There ere was n not t much of the the gal gaiety t of or a a. Franz Hals In Rembrandt nor was he a man of ot Ul th the boundless h happy hap hap- p pp p py PT disposition of ot PJeter Pieter Bru of ot whom h m. m the Flemish writer mans has recent recently written a biography bog bog- raphy which is largely fictional l because because be- be cause cause- of the slender data available on life Ufe Dr van Loons simple and ef effective pleasant pleas ant t humor of oC which America had a a- sample cample recently In his work on Pieter Pie Pie- tel tor Stuyvesant su t promises us usa a new v diversion of or distinguished and ab ab- i interest |