Van Gogh Museum
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The Van Gogh Museum (Dutch pronunciation: [vɑŋˈɣɔx mʏˌzeːjʏm]) is a Dutch art museum dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries in the Museum Square in Amsterdam South, close to the Stedelijk Museum, the Rijksmuseum, and the Concertgebouw.[7] The museum opened on 2 June 1973,[1] and its buildings were designed by Gerrit Rietveld and Kisho Kurokawa.
The museum contains the largest collection of Van Gogh's paintings and drawings in the world. In 2017, the museum had 2.3 million visitors and was the
History
Unsold works
Upon
Dedicated museum
Design for a Van Gogh Museum was commissioned by the Dutch government in 1963 to Dutch architect and furniture designer Gerrit Rietveld.[9] Rietveld died a year later, and the building was not completed until 1973,[10] when the museum opened its doors.[11] In 1998 and 1999, the building was renovated by the Dutch architect Martien van Goor,[12] and an exhibition wing by the Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa was added.[13] In late 2012, the museum was closed for renovations for six months. During this period, 75 works from the collection were shown in the H'ART Museum.[14]
On 9 September 2013, the museum unveiled a long-lost Van Gogh painting that spent years in a Norwegian attic believed to be by another painter. It is the first full-size canvas by him discovered since 1928. Sunset at Montmajour depicts trees, bushes and sky, painted with Van Gogh's familiar thick brush strokes. It can be dated to the exact day it was painted because he described it in a letter to his brother, Theo, and said he painted it the previous day 4 July 1888.[15]
Art thefts
In 1991, twenty paintings were stolen from the museum, among them Van Gogh's early painting The Potato Eaters. Although the thieves escaped from the building, 35 minutes later all stolen paintings were recovered from an abandoned car. Three paintings – Wheatfield with Crows, Still Life with Bible, and Still Life with Fruit – were severely torn during the theft.[16] Four men, including two museum guards, were convicted for the theft and given six or seven-year sentences.[17] It is considered to be the largest art theft in the Netherlands since the Second World War.[18]
In 2002, two paintings were stolen from the museum,
Buildings
The museum is situated at the
Rietveld building
The Rietveld building is the main structure and houses the permanent collection. It has a rectangular
Kurokawa wing
The Kurokawa wing is used for major temporary exhibitions. It has an oval floor plan and is three stories high. The entrance to the Kurokawa wing is via a tunnel from the Rietveld building.[28][29]
Collection
Works by Vincent van Gogh
The museum houses the largest Van Gogh collection in the world,[30] with 200 paintings, 400 drawings, and 700 letters by the artist.[31]
The main exhibition chronicles the various phases of Van Gogh's artistic life.
- His selected works from Nuenen (1880–1885):
- Avenue of Poplars in Autumn (1884)
- The Potato Eaters (1885)
- His selected works from Antwerp (1886):
- His selected works from Paris (1886–1888):
- His selected works from Arles (1888–1889):
- The Zouave (1888)
- Bedroom in Arles (1888)
- The Yellow House(1888)
- Sunflowers(1889)
- His selected works from Saint-Rémy (1889–1890):
- Almond Blossoms(1890)
- And his selected works from Auvers-sur-Oise (1890):
- Wheatfield with Crows (1890)
The permanent collection also includes nine of the artist's
A newly discovered work has temporarily gone on display. Van Gogh created three unknown sketches of peasants, which were then used as a single bookmark. Stylistically, they can be dated to autumn 1881.[32]
Works by contemporaries
The museum also features notable artworks by Van Gogh's contemporaries in the Impressionist and post-Impressionist movements and holds extensive exhibitions on various subjects from 19th Century art history.
The museum has sculptures by
Gallery
Meet Vincent Van Gogh Experience
The Van Gogh Museum manages an official Meet Vincent Van Gogh Experience, described as a travelling "3D immersive exhibition" using technology and computer audio-visual techniques to cover the story of Van Gogh's life through images of his works.[34] The first "experience" was in 2016 in Beijing,[35][unreliable source?][36] and it has since been toured globally to Europe, Asia and North America.[37]
The Meet Van Gogh Experience does not present original artworks, as they are too fragile to travel.[37] The "experience" was designed in collaboration with the London-based museum design consultancy, Event Communications (who designed Titanic Belfast),[38] and it won a 2017 THEA award in the category of Immersive Museum Exhibit: Touring.[39]
Visitors
Year | Visitors | Year | Visitors |
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2000 | 1,312,000[40] | 2010 | 1,430,000[41] |
2001 | 1,276,000[40] | 2011 | 1,601,000[41] |
2002 | 1,593,000[40] | 2012 | 1,438,000[42] |
2003 | 1,342,000[41] | 2013 | 1,449,000[43] |
2004 | 1,338,000[41] | 2014 | 1,609,000[44] |
2005 | 1,417,000[41] | 2015 | 1,900,000[4] |
2006 | 1,677,000[41] | 2016 | 2,100,000[3] |
2007 | 1,560,000[41] | 2017 | 2,255,000 |
2008 | 1,474,000[41] | 2018 | 2,190,000 |
2009 | 1,451,000[41] | 2019 | – |
The Van Gogh Museum, which is a
Axel Rüger, who had been the
Since 2000, the museum had between 1.2 and 1.9 million visitors per year.
The Van Gogh Museum is a member of the national Museumvereniging (Museum Association).[53]
See also
References
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- ^ a b Jasper Piersma, "Van Gogh Museum zit Rijks op de hielen als populairste museum" (in Dutch), Het Parool, 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
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- ^ New Wing of the Van Gogh Museum, Kisho Kurokawa architect & associates, 2006, archived from the original on 2 October 2011, retrieved 23 April 2011
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- ^ "Meet Vincent Van Gogh Experience Press Roundup from Beijing". Event Communications. Archived from the original on 8 October 2019. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
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External links
- Official website
- Meet Vincent Van Gogh Experience website
- Virtual tour of the Van Gogh Museum provided by Google Arts & Culture
- Media related to Van Gogh Museum at Wikimedia Commons