The Van Gogh Museum is a museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, featuring the works of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries. It has the largest collection of Van Gogh's paintings and drawings in the world.
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Main exhibition
 | The Potato Eaters (1885) |
The main exhibition chronicles the various phases of Van Gogh's artistic life. Highlights[citation needed] include The Potato Eaters, Bedroom in Arles, and one of the three Sunflowers paintings with a yellow background, Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers.[citation needed]
The museum also features notable paintings by von Gogh's contemporaries in the Impressionist and post-Impressionist movements and holds extensive exhibitions on various subjects from 19th Century art history.[2]
The building
The main structure was designed by Gerrit Rietveld and opened in 1973. The architect of the 1999 Exhibition Wing was Kisho Kurokawa.
References
- ^ Van Gogh Museum - The building, vangoghmuseum.nl
- ^ Van Gogh Museum: About, Artinfo.com, 2008, http://www.artinfo.com/galleryguide/23071/9589/about/the-van-gogh-museum-amsterdam/, retrieved 2008-07-30
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Van Gogh Museum - Museum website, vangoghmuseum.nl
- Award winning site of the Van Gogh Gauguin Exhibition 2002, vangoghgauguin.com
- The Vincent van Gogh Gallery, with pictures of all his paintings and drawings, vggallery.com
- Van Gogh Museum - Official Website of the Netherlands, www.holland.com
See also
Coordinates: 52°21′30.30″N 4°52′51.90″E / 52.358417°N 4.881083°E / 52.358417; 4.881083
