Van Gogh Museum - Musée d'Orsay and others

Museums of Art in The Netherlands

Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam

A visit to the Van Gogh Museum is a unique experience. The museum contains the largest collection of paintings by Vincent van Gogh in the world. It provides the opportunity to keep track of the artist's developments, or compare his paintings to works by other artists from the 19th century in the collection. The museum also holds an extensive offer of exhibitions on various subjects from 19th century art history.

The Van Gogh Museum offers information concerning the museum and the art collection through various media and channels. In many places, Dutch and English hall texts and labels can be found, providing some information about the artworks concerned, the artist, or the time in which he/she lived.

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The letters - Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam

Edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker. View all 902 letters from and to Van Gogh, richly annotated and illustrated, with new transcriptions and translations.

The letter screen consists of three columns. The first and third columns present different views of the letters. You can choose which content you wish to see in these columns. For example, you can use them to view the original and translated texts side by side, or the notes, or whatever suits you. The second column contains further information about the letter.

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The Van Gogh Village Nuenen

Canvas fillers were lead white, chalk and barium sulfate.

An insight into the life of Vincent van Gogh in Nuenen. It will be like treading in Vincent's footsteps. And this is something you can do at your own pace! You can walk where Vincent once walked, sit where Vincent once sat, and still see what Vincent once saw. So, something really unique!

You can experience in real life the lovely and unusual locations he painted. You can also walk the Van Gogh route and visit all these wonderful places with or without a guide. It is with great pride that we are currently working on establishing a new Van Gogh Centre. This has been given the name 'Vincentre'.

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The Kröller-Müller Museum Otterlo

The Kröller-Müller Museum has a world-renowned collection of mainly 19th and 20th century visual art. Our centerpieces include the large collection of artwork by Vincent van Gogh and the sculpture garden.

The Kröller-Müller Museum is named after Helene Kröller-Müller (1869-1939). Helene Kröller-Müller collected almost 11,500 art objects with the help of her advisor, H.P. Bremmer. The purchases were paid for from the capital accumulated by her husband Anton Kröller as director of Wm. H. Müller & Co.

Helene Kröller-Müller's collection grew rapidly. After a few years she was the owner of the largest private Van Gogh collection in the world (not counting that of the Van Gogh family itself). During her lifetime, Helene Kröller-Müller purchased approximately 11,500 art objects.

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The Van Gogh Dossier : Mad or Genius

The Dolhuys Museum in Haarlem presents the exhibition The Van Gogh Dossier : Mad or Genius. The exhibition which offers new insights into the personality of Vincent van Gogh.

The exhibition focuses on the possible link between his mental instability and is artistic calling.

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> Haags Gemeente museum The Haege ... read more

> Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam ... read more

> Rijksmuseum Amsterdam - Museum of Art and History ... read more

> The Temporary Stedelijk Amsterdam ... read more

> Drents Museum Assen ... read more

> Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam ... read more

Museums of Art in France

Musée d'Orsay Paris

The history of the museum, of its building is quite unusual. In the centre of Paris on the banks of the Seine, opposite the Tuileries Gardens, the museum was installed in the former Orsay railway station, built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900. So the building itself could be seen as the first work of art in the Musee d'Orsay, which displays collections of art from the period 1848 to 1914.

In 1975, the Direction des Musées de France already considered installing a new museum in the train station, in which all of the arts from the second half of the 19th century would be represented.

The national museum of the Musée d'Orsay opened to the public on 9 December 1986 to show the great diversity of artistic creation in the western world between 1848 and 1914. It was formed with the national collections coming mainly from three establishments:

from the Louvre museum, for the works of artists born after 1820 or coming to the fore during the Second Republic. from the Musée du Jeu de Paume, which since 1947 had been devoted to Impressionism, as Vincent van Gogh.

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> The Angladon-Dubrujeaud museum Avignon ... read more

> Musee Rodin Paris ... read more

Museums of Art in Germany

Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal

That is a question that frequently crops up with Van Gogh paintings. Vincent Van Gogh's work has probably been copied and forged more than that of any other painter of the modern era. Even the origin of some works attributed to Van Gogh hanging in museums is extremely doubtful.

New Van Gogh works surface almost daily. With some, it is immediately clear that they are not originals. But there are also numerous convincing forgeries. There is no authoritative directory of Van Gogh's work, and in some cases even experts find it hard to be sure. Van Gogh paintings regularly fetch top prices at auction, so many people dream of making the ultimate discovery at a local flea market or during an attic clear out.

There are four paintings that have been associated with Vincent van Gogh. Two of these paintings, "Still Life" and "Still Life with Jug and Pears", were now, however, by the Amsterdam Van Gogh Museum, classified as spurious. For several years, we are not sure whether these are works by van Gogh. The two oil paintings are now presented in Wuppertal, under the name "unknown artist".

> Read more ... Van Gogh Fakes by Loek de Winter in the European Journal

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> Staatliche Museen zu Berlin ... read more

> KUNSTHALLE BREMEN ... read more

> Wallraf-Richartz-Museum ... read more

> Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ... read more

> Neue Pinakothek Munich ... read more

Museums of Art in Switzerland

Villa Flora Winterthur

Between 1907 and 1930, Hedy and Arthur Hahnloser-Bühler built up a collection of Swiss and French art of extraordinary quality. The main focus is on young Swiss artists and on the works of the Nabis (Bonnard, Vallotton, Vuillard) and Fauves (Matisse, Rouault, Manguin) groups as well as their forerunners (Cézanne, van Gogh, Redon).

The main focus is on young Swiss artists and on the works of the Nabis (Bonnard, Vallotton, Vuillard) and Fauves (Matisse, Rouault, Manguin) groups as well as their forerunners (Cézanne, van Gogh, Redon). This outstanding collection adorns the Villa Flora, which has retained the charming atmosphere of the collectors' former home.

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> Offentliche Kunstsammlung, Kunstmuseum Basel ... read more

> Kunstmuseum Bern ... read more

> Les Musées d'art et d'histoire Geneva ... read more

> Oskar Reinhart Collection ... read more

Museums of Art in England

National Gallery London

The National Gallery houses the national collection of Western European painting from the 13th to the 19th centuries. It is on show 361 days a year, free of charge.

Sunflowers. This is one of four paintings of sunflowers dating from August and September 1888. Van Gogh intended to decorate Gauguin's room with these paintings in the so-called Yellow House that he rented in Arles in the South of France. He and Gauguin worked there together between October and December 1888.

Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in August 1888, 'I am hard at it, painting with the enthusiasm of a Marseillais eating bouillabaisse, which won't surprise you when you know that what I'm at is the painting of some sunflowers. If I carry out this idea there will be a dozen panels. So the whole thing will be a symphony in blue and yellow. I am working at it every morning from sunrise on, for the flowers fade so quickly. I am now on the fourth picture of sunflowers. This fourth one is a bunch of 14 flowers ... it gives a singular effect.'

The dying flowers are built up with thick brushstrokes (impasto). The impasto evokes the texture of the seed-heads. Van Gogh produced a replica of this painting in January 1889, and perhaps another one later in the year. The various versions and replicas remain much debated among Van Gogh scholars.

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> The Courtauld Institute of Art London ... read more

> Tate Gallery London ... read more

Museums of Art in United States of America

The Museum of Modern Art New York

The Museum of Modern Art (stylized MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been singularly important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. The museum's collection offers an unparalleled overview in modern and contemporary art,[2] including works of architecture and design, drawings, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books and artist's books, film, and electronic media.

Considered by many to have the best collection of modern Western masterpieces in the world, MoMA's holdings include more than 150,000 individual pieces in addition to approximately 22,000 films and 4 million film stills. The collection houses such important and familiar works as the following The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.

Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum is located in New York City's Central Park along Fifth Avenue (from 80th to 84th Streets). Nearly five million people visit the Museum each year.

Important Van Gogh paintings collection with landscape Wheat Field with Cypresses, L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux, La Berceuse, Irises etc.

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> Baltimore Museum of Art ... read more

> The Art Institute of Chicago ... read more

> The Detroit Institute of Arts ... read more

> Honolulu Academy of Arts ... read more

> The Armand Hammer Museum of Art ... read more

> National Gallery of Art Washington D.C. ... read more

Museums of Art in Japan

Sompo Japan Museum of Art Tokyo

With fifteen sunflowers arranged luxuriantly in a yellow jar around a single flower with an eye-like red dot, Vincent van Gogh celebrates the vibrancy of life itself, imbuing each individual sunflower with its own expressional impact.

Van Gogh painted twelve "sunflower" works, seven of which date from his Arles Period, perhaps the painter's artistic high-water mark. Seeking the bright Japanese quality of light seen in Ukiyoe woudblock prints, the artist settled in Arles in the south of France, where he rented the "yellow house" dreaming of establishing a colony of artists. He had planned to decorate the room he prepared for Gauguin with twelve "Sunflowers." Unfortunately, the "sunflower," project ended at seven, and his communal life with Gauguin ended after only two months.

This work is painted on a portion of a 20-meter sheet of canvas purchased by Gauguin when he came to live and work with van Gogh in Arles. Gauguin's "L'Allee des Alyscamps, Arles" is also painted on canvas from this sheet.

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Museums of Art in other Countries

Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg Russia

The collection of the State Hermitage includes more than three million works of art and artifacts of the world culture. Among them are paintings, graphic works, sculptures and works of applied art, archaeological finds and numismatic material. Within 9 artworks by Van Gogh.

The main architectural ensemble of the Hermitage situated in the centre of St Petersburg consists of the Winter Palace, the former state residence of the Russian emperors, the buildings of the Small, Old (Great) and New Hermitages, the Hermitage Theatre and the Auxiliary House. The museum complex also includes the Menshikov Palace and the Eastern Wing of the General Staff building, the Staraya Derevnya Restoration and Storage Centre and the Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory.

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Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid Spain

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum offers visitors an overview of art from the 13th century to the late 20th century. In the nearly one thousand works on display, visitors can contemplate the major periods and pictorial schools of western art such as the Renaissance, Mannerism, the Baroque, Rococo, Romanticism and the art of the 19th and 20th centuries up to Pop Art.

The museum also features works from Vincent van Gogh. The landscape of Les Vessenots, on the outskirts of Auvers, shows a group of old country cottages placed just below a raised horizon.

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> Österreichische Galerie Belvedere Vienna ... read more

> Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo ... read more

> National Gallery of Canada ... read more

> Carlsberg Glyptotek Denmark ... read more

> Israel Museum ... read more

> Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna Roma ... read more

> Pushkin Museum Moscow ... read more

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