The Van Gogh Museum is an art museum dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries. The museum's collection is the largest collection of Van Gogh's paintings and drawings in the world. The
his contemporaries. The museum's collection is the largest collection of Van Gogh's paintings and drawings in the world.
The museum opened on 2 June 1973.
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Van Gogh Museum. In 2017, the museum had 2.3
million visitors, and was the most visited museum in
the Netherlands and the 23rd most visited art museum in the world.
A ticket costs 18 euros.
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Unsold works. Upon Vincent van Gogh's death in 1890,
his work not sold fell into the possession of
Johanna van Gogh-Bonger. Selling many of Vincent's paintings with the ambition of spreading knowledge of his artwork, Johanna maintained a private collection of his works.
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Dedicated museum. Design for a Van Gogh Museum was
commissioned by 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.
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Dedicated museum. In 1998 and 1999, the building was
renovated by the Dutch architect Martien van Goor and
an exhibition wing by the Japanese modernist architect Kisho Kurokawa was added.
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Dedicated museum. Starting in late 2012, the museum was
closed for renovations for six months. During this period,
75 works from the collection were shown in the Hermitage Amsterdam.
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Art thefts. In 1991, twenty paintings were stolen from
the museum, among them Van Gogh's early painting The
Potato Eaters.
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Art thefts. Congregation leaving the reformed church in Nuenen. View
of the sea at Scheveningen.
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Buildings. The museum is situated at the Museumplein in
Amsterdam-Zuid, on the Paulus Potterstraat 7. The museum consists of
two buildings, the Rietveld building, designed by Gerrit Rietveld, and the Kurokawa wing, designed by Kisho Kurokawa.
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Rietveld building. The Rietveld building is the main structure
of the museum and exhibits the permanent collection. The
building has a rectangular floor plan and is four stories high.
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Kurokawa wing. The Kurokawa wing is used for major
temporary exhibitions. The building has an oval floor plan
and is three stories high. The entrance to the Kurokawa wing is via an underground tunnel from the Rietveld building.
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Collection. The Van Gogh Museum has the largest Van
Gogh collection in the world. It comprises 200 paintings,
400 drawings, and 700 letters by Vincent van Gogh. The main exhibition chronicles the various phases of Van Gogh's artistic life.
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Works by his contemporaries.
Auguste Rodin Jules Dalou
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Works by his contemporaries. Édouard Manet. Claude Monet.