Van Gogh Museum

...of Amsterdam's many museums, The Van Gogh Museum. BACKGROUND Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) didn't even start painting until he was 27 years old. He had already tried several other professions such as a lay preacher, schoolmaster and art dealer, none of them with much success. Largely self taught his early works were landscapes and townscapes. It was later on that he took to painting farm life depictions and his most famous still life paintings. ...
...artists such as Paul Gauguin, Van Gogh suffered several bouts of madness. Famously during one outburst he cut off part of his left ear! He even admitted himself to a mental health clinic in Saint-Remy, near Arles, France in 1889. He never really recovered though and on 27th July 1890 he shot himself in the chest, dying two days later from his wounds. Despite his paintings now being worth millions he died destitute , as he only ever sold one of the ...

scampi1 15.09.2004 · Read full review
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...dragged my boyfriend to the Van Gogh museum. My first piece of advice to anyone visiting anywhere in Amsterdam would have to be get a good map!! Unfortunatley, ours would have been as useful in Leeds as it was over there, and Amsterdam must be one of the most confusing cities around. We presumed, as it ws in the Museum district of Amsterdam, that it would be easy to find, but the street signs kept disappearing, so an hour later we completed the ...
...to a different aspect of Van Gogh and his style of art. The 3rd floor is mainly the work of Van Gogh's peers, and other artists of the period inspired by some of his more imaginative styles. One such artist is Claude Monet, the work of whom appears alongside many items taken from Theo Van Gogh's collection. Theo was Vincent's brother, an art dealer by trade who lived with Van Gogh during some of his most creative times. The second floor served mainly ...

nicolap 14.01.2002 · Read full review
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...on my list was the Van Gogh Museum. This museum houses the biggest collection of the artist's work held in one place as well as displaying works by other artists of the period - this is interesting as it gives you an opportunity to put Van Gogh's work into context. The Museum is located close to the Rijksmuseum and is easy to find. It is housed in a modern building which has wheelchair access. The building also has lifts to the upper floors. The ...
...there are exhibits relating to Van Gogh's early and personal life. These include some of the letters which made up the correspondence between Vincent and his brother Theo. Moving up to the first floor, this is where you'll find the bulk of the works by Van Gogh displayed in this museum. The paintings are arranged chronologically and into five sections which correlate nicely with periods of the artist's life based on where he lived at the time. When ...

fizzytom 19.02.2004 · Read full review
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The Van Gogh Museum is one of the major tourist attractions in the cultural Eurpoean city of Amsterdam. Most famous for being the home of the famous work "The Vase with Sunflowers" this 5-floor museum also displays many other important works of art from Van Gogh and his contemporaries. Van Gogh was born in Zundert in 1853 and began painting in 1880. He famously amputated his own ear after an argument with one of his peers, Gauguin. This was a by-product ...
...the verdict suicide by a gunshot. The museum itself is located in the Museum Quarter of central Amsterdam and is easily accessible from the hotels in the tourist areas. Currently, around 700 paintings and drawings are in the museum and draw large crowds every year - my advice is to go early to avoid queues. There is a small entry fee, but concessions are available for senior citizens, students etc. Compared to other tourist attractions in the city, ...

Saltire 24.01.2001 · Read full review
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...different artists, as well as van gogh, but artists in the style of him. The paintings all in all are very good, but get very similar all the time. You move upstairs and find a whole floor of van gogh, and this is when you really see how much he progressed, and how his paintings started to change (you also notice how his self portraits get more evil and expressively ugly). The third floor again, is mixed paintings but a lot of van gogh with his more ...
...the mesuem dedicated to Xavier Macmillan (i think that's right) a very detailed artist. The mesuem itself is a very nice place, very new and well kept. Of course there is a book shop with loads and loads of books for sale, posters and all the rest, and I would definately say that this place HAS to be on your agenda if you visit Amsterdam. ...

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