Nazi collectors of plundered art like Herman Göring and Joseph Goebbels avidly sought works by the famous Dutch master, Rembrandt. An avowed admirer of the painter, Hitler endeavored to amass a significant collection of Rembrandts for the museum he planned in Linz. There was a major problem with the artist, however, that posed difficulties for the Nazis. In order to conform to Nazi ideologies of race, Rembrandt was either purged of his supposed "Jewishness," or denigrated for it. This talk investigates the ambivalence surrounding the artist during the Third Reich by consulting such Nazi art critics as Maria Grunewald, Hans Frank, Walter Hansen, and Alfred Rosenberg (the latter, editor of the newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter), who variously denounced or "aryanized" Rembrandt. Also pertinent to this discussion are interpretations of Rembrandt's art by such German critics as Julius Langbehn, Carl Neumann, Wilhelm Valentiner (director of the Detroit Institute of Arts), and the famous author, Anna Seghers.