Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews

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Artist: Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890)
Nationality: Dutch
Movement: Post-Impressionism
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
Dutch artist, Vincent Van Gogh was born the son of Protestant minister. He adopted many different careers before finally devoting himself to painting. He was an employee of art dealers, a language teacher, student of practical evangelism, and a missionary. In 1881, he first developed his work in the traditional Dutch style. In 1886, he moved to Paris where he encountered Impressionism. Van Gogh’s life was plagued by series of unrequited love stories and rocky friendships. The most notable of these were his obsession with a French prostitute, to whom he sent his dismembered ear, and also his tumultuous relationship with fellow artist, Paul Gauguin. Mental illness, primarily schizophrenia and manic depression afflicted Van Gogh his entire adult life, resulting in frequent hospitalization and an early death. He produced some of his most famous pieces, including his Self-Portrait, in mental institutions in hospitals in Arles and Saint-Remy. After his release, he went to Auvers where he eventually shot himself and died two days later.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Appleton Museum of Art: Homage to Van Gogh: International Artists Pay Tribute to a Legend
The collection was started in 1985 with the intention on fulfilling Van Gogh’s hope of forming a community of artists in Arles, France. Little evidence remains of Van Gogh’s residence in the city. None of the paintings made during Van Gogh’s “Arle...
Van Gogh Museum: Van Gogh & Gauguin
The tale of the two artists who lived and worked together and fought each other is well known, but has never been told in the form of an exhibition. The exhibition looks in detail at the relationship between Van Gogh and Gauguin in the contex...
Van Gogh Museum: Theo van Gogh
The Van Gogh Museum first opened its doors in 1973. The building, designed by Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld, houses the worlds largest collection of works by Vincent van Gogh: some 200 paintings, 500 drawings ...
Museum of Modern Art: Van Gogh and the Colours of the Night
"It often seems to me that the night is much more alive and richly coloured than the day." (Vincent van Gogh, Arles 8 September 1888) Long before he became an artist, Van Gogh evinced a great love for the mood conjured up by evening and night, wh...
Indianapolis Museum of Art: Van Gogh and the Labors of the Field
While in Saint-Remy, Van Gogh rarely had access to models and he often turned to making copies after paintings and drawings by the artists who inspired him most, including Rembrandt van Rijn, ...
Van Gogh Museum: From Cézanne to Van Gogh: The collection of Dr Gachet
The doctors son, also called Paul, donated a large part of his inheritance to the French state. Now, fifty years later, the Réunion des Musées Nationaux has mounted this exhibition to show their gratitude. Before coming to Amsterdam the show will be ...
Van Gogh Museum: Vincent van Gogh Drawings

Van Gogh’s depictions of city life in Antwerp and Paris range from quick sketches jotted down in the street to detailed sheets of coloured chalk or watercolour completed at home. Most of his Parisian views are of his immediate surroundings, incl...
Art Institute of Chicago: Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South
The story of two artists who lived, and battled, with each other in the struggle to realize their potential is at ...
Musee d'Orsay: Theo van Gogh : art-dealer, collector, Vincent's brother
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Van Gogh Museum: Expansion and Renovation of the Van Gogh Museum
The modernized Van Gogh Museum After the re-opening in June 1999, the modernized Rietveld building will be entirely devoted to paintings of Van Gogh and the permanent coll...
Museum of Fine Art Boston: Van Gogh Face to Face
One of the highlights of the exhibition will be an extraordinary assembly of the artists self-portraits, from the earliest paintings done shortly after his arrival in Paris in...
Toledo Museum of Art: van Gogh: Fields
Aiming to consider comprehensively the scope and character of this particular focus within Van Goghs work, examples have been purposely selected from each phase of the artists career: his initial activity in The Netherlands in the early 1880s, his...
van Gogh Museum: Van Gogh and the Sea
Several drawings and sketches in letters from the time Van Gogh spent in The Hague (1881-1883) show the beach and village of Scheveningen, as well as portraits of fishermen. He was apparently less interested in the cosmopolitan entertainments of t...
Saint Louis Art Museum: Vincent van Gogh and the Painters of the Petit Boulevard
Van Gogh actively participated in discussing and debating new ideas, which ultimately became the shape and substance of modern art in Europe. He identified these artists as the painters of the petit boulevard, a term that reflected their desire...
Pierre Gianadda Foundation: Russian Icons, the Saints
Noted for its outstanding exhibitions the Fondation Gianadda, constructed over Roman ruins, since its opening in 1978, has presented works by such distinguished artists as Chagall, Gauguin, van Gogh, Kahlo, Kandinsky, Lautrec, M...
Museum of Modern Art: Van Gogh's Postman: The Portraits of Joseph Roulin
Joseph Roulin was a postal employee in Arles, and van Gogh painted him for the first time in the summer of ...
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza: van Gogh: The Last Landscapes
This was a very brief but extraordinarily creative period, and during these last weeks of his life, Van Gogh also became more conscious of his artistic debt to his predecessors. The exhibition is sponsored by Banco Caixa Geral and Fidelidade Mundi...
Pierre Gianadda Foundation: Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
The exhibition brings together between 90 and 100 paintings and works on paper. As for Van Gogh, drawing was ...
van Gogh Museum: Van Gogh Draftsman: The Masterpieces
Van Gogh began his artistic career in 1880 as a draughtsman and concentrated on drawing for the next three years. Even when he began to develop as a painter from 1884, drawing remained a passion. His draughtsmanship took on stunning new proportion...
Van Gogh Museum: Reflections: Japan and Japonism

Come now, isn’t it almost a true religion which these simple Japanese teach us, who live in nature as though they themselves were flowers. And you cannot study Japanese art, it seems to me, without becoming much gayer and happier, and we must r...
van Gogh Museum: Wonders of Imperial Japan: Meiji Art from the Khalili Collection
Japanese art experienced a remarkable period of development during the Meiji period. The social changes which had affected Japan since it opened its doors to the West in 1854 had led to the decline of the traditional market; at the same time, an...
Detroit Institute of Arts: Van Gogh: Face to Face
The exhibition, organized chronologically, is divided equally between drawings and paintings. The majority of the drawings date from early in van Gogh's career, when he was still working in his ...
Van Gogh Museum: Light! Art, technology and society in the Industrial Age, 1750-1900
By means of approximately 300 objects, the evolution of light and the resulting impact on social, economic and artistic realms is highlighted. Included are some spectacular loans, such as the Statue of Liberty from the Jardin du Luxembourg in Pari...
van Gogh Museum: Go(gh) Modern
The presentation is subdivided into four sections, each featuring a different aspect of Van Gogh's affect on contemporary art, and includes paintings, sculptures and videos by various artists and movements - from Appel and Kiefer to Nauman and War...
van Gogh Museum: Druksel Prints: by Werkman
After his printing business went bankrupt in 1923, Werkman started experimenting with found materials from his workshop, developing a technique whereby the elements of a particular representation were printed sequentially one by one, either by han...
Van Gogh Museum: The Photograph and the American Dream, 1840-1940

Photography was to help establish America’s identity from its invention in 1839. In the 1840’s the first photographers began travelling the New World in search of customers to photograph. Wandering from town to town and farm to farm with their pri...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Three Museums Join to Present Groundbreaking Survey of Van Gogh's Portraits
Taking this famous passage as a point of departure, The Detroit Institute of Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Philadelphia Museum of Art will present Van...
van Gogh Museum: Egon Schiele Accompanied by Marina Abramovic and Dansgroep Krisztina de Châtel
Schiele / Abramovic / De Châtel To accompany the exhibition the Van Gogh Museum has commissioned live performances and dance productions by Marina Abramovic and Dansgroep Krisztina de Châtel to be shown in the exhibition galleries. Their share...
Van Gogh Museum: 800 prints by Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Vuillard and their contemporaries
The Vincent van Gogh Foundation already owns a small collection of prints assembled by Vincent van Gogh and his brother Theo, which is on loan to the Museum. The addition of this extensive collection adds depth and direction to the print collectio...
van Gogh Museum: Masterpieces by Odilon Redon and Emile Bernard
The collector Bonger was one of the first collectors in the Netherlands to catch on to the French avant-garde art of his time. He first discovered it in Paris in the 1880s, thanks to his friend and later brother-in-law Theo van Gogh. Initially...
van Gogh Museum: Fierce friends: Artists & animals in the Industrial Era, 1750-1900
During the 18th and 19th centuries the relationship between the human and animal kingdoms changed profoundly as a result of the Industrial Revolution, the discovery of dinosaur bones and fossils, and the spread of Darwin's theory of evolution. Wit...
Studio 1219, Art Incubator: LOOKING TO PARTNER WITH ART ENTITY ABROAD FOR ARTIST EXCHANGE
With over 8,000 square feet of total space, Studio 1219 features an educational department, a pottery studio, workshop space, open space for classes and community functions, and opportunities for small arts related businesses. As an incubator, Stu...
Philbrook Museum of Art: The Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Monet, Renoir, and the Impressionist Landscape
The exhibition opens with an early landscape by Claude Monet, Rue de la Bavolle, Honfleur, placed within the context of the Realist landscape style ...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Light: The Industrial Age 1750-1900, Art and Science, Technology and Society
Light! was organized in partnership with the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, where it was previously on view. Pittsburgh is the only other venue for this remarkable exhibition. The exhibition is sponsored by Bayer ...
Seoul Arts Center: Van Gogh to Picasso: Impressionist and Modern Masterworks for the Cleveland Museum of Art
According to U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, Alexander Vershbow, “This exhibition is an excellent example of the increasing cooperation and linkages between the peoples of our two countries. It will enhance mutual understanding by incre...
Van Gogh Museum: Jugendstil in word and image
In addition to the beautifully illustrated books and periodicals, there is a representative selection of applied art from the Mathildenhöhe (Museum Künstlerkolonie Darmstadt), including styli...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Postimpressionist Masterpieces
Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum, stated: For six months out of each year, this extraordinary loan signi...
Vancouver Art Gallery: Impressionist Masterworks from the National Gallery of Canada
The first Impressionist exhibition of 1874 exploded like a bombshell in the complacent world of French academic art. The young artists who participated in this show and the seven exhibitions that followed, had abandoned historical subje...
Courtauld Institute of Art: Fauve Painting 1905-7: The Triumph of Pure Colour
Louis Vauxcelles, one of the more progressive critics described the proximity of a relatively classical sculpture to paintings by Matisse and his colleagues as -Donatello among the wild beasts - and the name stuck although the Fauves were ne...

Further Artwork and Information:

The Vincent van Gogh Gallery
WebMuseum: Gogh, Vincent van
Vincent van Gogh Online
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Van Gogh Museum
Vincent van Gogh - Olgas Gallery
CGFA- Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh: Biography
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