Museo Van Gogh

The Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh's works are displayed in the Van Gogh Museum, a gallery in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

At the time of his death at the age of 37, Vincent van Gogh left behind a sizable body of work, including about 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings. He had been able to sell a couple of them and give some away as gifts to friends. Theo van Gogh, an art trader, his younger brother, received his estate. He had paintings by Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Léon Lhermitte, and Jean-François Millet in addition to those by his brother Vincent. Sadly, Theo passed away a year after Vincent, so his widow Johanna van Gogh handled the estate administration. She relocated once more to the Netherlands, where she organised the first exhibitions of Vincent van Gogh's artwork and significantly increased public awareness of the artist. The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam hosted the first significant show in 1905, while the Rijksmuseum declined to lend any of Vincent's pieces.

Johanna van Gogh was able to sell a few pieces from Vincent's collection without creating the appearance that he was reducing it overall since he sometimes painted multiple variations of the same subject.

Early on, Johanna van Gogh encouraged translations of her husband's letters into several languages. The collection was passed down to Vincent Willem van Gogh, an engineer who was Johanna van Gogh's son and lived from 1890 until 1978. He loaned the collection around to other museums up until 1962, when he founded the Vincent Van Gogh Foundation and gave the collection to it. Before the van Gogh Museum opened its doors in 1976, the paintings were on show at the Stedelijk Museum on a permanent basis.

The museum is divided into two structures. The original structure was created in 1973 by Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld (1888–1964). Kish Kurokawa designed the exhibition wing, which Gojko finished in 1998.

The museum houses 406 drawings and 213 paintings by Vincent van Gogh throughout all of his artistic phases. The Potato Eaters, The Room in Arles, and a rendition of The Sunflowers are a few of the included pieces. Additionally, the majority of Vincent van Gogh's letters are in the care of the museum. Theo van Gogh started a collection of artwork by 19th-century artists, and the foundation has continued to fund additions to the collection, resulting in the addition of works by other artists to the museum's collection, including Alma-Tadema, Bernard, Boulanger, Breton, Caillebotte, Courbet, Couture, Charles-François Daubigny, Maurice Denis, Gauguin, Jozef Israls, Jongkind, Manet, Anton.

Article obtained from Wikipedia article Wikipedia in his version of 28/10/2022, by various authors under the license Licencia de Documentación Libre GNU.

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