Presentation is about

Van Gogh Museum,

Amsterdam
by Kristina Beridze
Van Gogh
Dutch painter
 Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853-29 July 1890)
was a Dutch Post-impressionist painter who is among the
most famous and influential figures in the history of Western
art. In just over a decade he created approximately 2100
artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in
the last two years of his life. Van Gogh became famous after
his suicide at age 37, which followed years of poverty and
mental illness. Born into an upper-middle-class family, Van
Gogh drew as a child and was serious, quiet and thoughtful,
but showed signs of mental instability. As a young man he
worked as an art dealer, often travelling, but became
depressed after he was transferred to London. He turned to
religion and spent time as a missionary in southern Belgium.
Later he drifted in ill-health and solitude. Van Gogh suffered
from psychotic episodes and delusions. Though he worried
about his mental stability, he often neglected his physical
health, did not eat properly and drank heavily. His friendship
with Gauguin ended after a confrontation with a razor when,
in a rage, he severed part of his own left ear. Van Gogh’s art
gained critical recognition after his death and his life story
captured public imagination as an emblem of misunderstood
genius.
Museum in Amsterdam
The Van Gogh Museum 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
Rijkmuseum, and the Concertgebouw. The museum opened on 2 June 1973, 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 most visited museum in the Netherlands, and the 23rd most visited art museum in the
world. In 2019, the Van Gogh museum launched the Meet Vincent Van Gogh Experience, a
technology driven “immersive exhibition” on Van Gogh’s life and works, which has toured
globally.
Design for a Van Gogh Museum was commissioned be the Dutch government in 1963 to
Dutch architect and furniture designer Gerrit Rietveld. Rietveld died a year later, and the
building was not completed until 1973, when the museum opened its doors. In 1998 and 1999,
the building was renovated by the Dutch architect Martien van Goor, and an exhibition wing by
the Japanese architect Kisho Kurokava was added. 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. 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 blush 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.
Some paintings by
Van Gogh