High art becomes body art as visitors to Amsterdam's Rembrandt House Museum get inked

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Dutch tattoo artist Henk Schiffmaker describes his work, tattooing Rembrandt paintings onto the skin of customers as 'highbrow to lowbrow.' Read more at

AMSTERDAM — Henk Schiffmaker's needle whirrs as he tattoos the familiar lines of an elephant on Lilian Rachmaran's back.

Museum Director Milou Halbesma said the event is a way of attracting new visitors to the historic house and getting people closer to the artist.The workshop has already proved a hit. All appointments available online were filled within 10 minutes, she said, though there are still some slots available for people who walk into the museum and wait their turn.

They see similarities between their work and the artist's quick sketches — but there is one key difference.

 

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