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2013-05-22 15:06:33 (5 comments, 14 reshares, 168 +1s)

Mark your calendar: Museumplein Weekend on 22 and 23 June 2013 presenting a varied programme until late at night, free of charge, with music, dance, guided tours, and art.
We will be celebrating the re-opening of the three museums on Museumplein (+Rijksmuseum, +Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and us) together with Koninklijk Concertgebouw and Koninklijk Concertgebouw Orchestra.
This square, the cultural hub linking the five institutions, will host a range of activities revolving around art and culture throughout the weekend. 

Will you be there?
More info: http://bit.ly/16Nu1ZQ 

Image: Overview of the Museumplein. Counterclock-wise from top Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Concertgebouw, photo: KLM Carto, edited by Benthem Crouwel Architects.

2013-05-21 14:27:03 (8 comments, 17 reshares, 187 +1s)

Crafts for kids on this rainy afternoon: create an online diorama with elements from Vincent van Gogh's paintings and share it with others! Just visit http://www.vangoghmuseum.com/diorama for English or http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/kijkdoos for Dutch. 

Have fun!

2013-05-19 11:04:44 (43 comments, 16 reshares, 302 +1s)

Happy Pentecost!
What are your plans for this long weekend?
We are open today and tomorrow from 9 am until 6 pm. http://bit.ly/RcbjDz 
Hope to see you! 

Photo: Martijn van den Dobbelsteen

2013-05-18 12:41:00 (12 comments, 24 reshares, 254 +1s)

It’s International Museum Day!

Want to know more about the job of a curator in a museum? Read the interview with Nienke Bakker and find out what it’s like to be an exhibition curator: http://bit.ly/16E8x0E 

This interview is the first in a series of conversations with people involved in the research project Van Gogh’s Studio Practice.

Find out more on International Museum Day: http://icom.museum/events/international-museum-day/ 

Photo: Martijn van den Dobbelsteen

2013-05-17 15:57:19 (1 comments, 9 reshares, 77 +1s)

2013-05-17 15:20:17 (10 comments, 7 reshares, 110 +1s)

Today it’s Museum Memories Day!

What is your most memorable museum moment?

Photo: Martijn van den Dobbelsteen

2013-05-16 15:17:40 (8 comments, 23 reshares, 176 +1s)

The first ever limited facsimile edition of Van Gogh’s preserved sketchbooks is available now. The sketchbooks provide an intimate glimpse into the painter's life and working methods, with sketches in pencil, pen, ink and chalk, personal notes, addresses and lines of verse. The first sketchbook dates from Nuenen and the fourth from his final days in Auvers-sur-Oise. The other two contain work and notes from Van Gogh’s years in Nuenen, Antwerp and Paris.Three of them are now on view in our exhibition ‘Van Gogh at work’. The facsimile edition is a joint publication with The Folio Society in London.

Have your chance on winning a facsimile edition of Van Gogh’s sketchbooks! More info: http://bit.ly/1047tM8.

More info on the sketchbooks: http://bit.ly/13yOKMZ.

2013-05-16 18:08:56 (34 comments, 55 reshares, 432 +1s)

Today it's International Day of Families!

Did you know Vincent van Gogh painted the family of postman Joseph Roulin in the winter of 1888, and every member more than once?
Read all about the members of this family and see their portraits on this Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roulin_Family_(Van_Gogh_series)

Image: Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Camille Roulin, 1888, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

2013-05-15 14:58:53 (42 comments, 62 reshares, 483 +1s)

Happy Mother's Day! 

Image: Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Mother Roulin with Her Baby, 1888. +Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia.

2013-05-15 08:22:15 (55 comments, 58 reshares, 491 +1s)

Vote for Van Gogh’s ‘Pollard willow’ as best museum acquisition until 25 May! 

More info: http://bit.ly/10zy6xk & http://youtu.be/aXp-zGXgMbg 

2013-05-10 15:50:49 (2 comments, 10 reshares, 84 +1s)

Beatdoctor DJ Delic a.k.a. artist Peter Blom will be at our Friday Night tonight! Will you be there too?

More info: http://bit.ly/GXr9sF

2013-05-09 20:24:26 (30 comments, 24 reshares, 244 +1s)

Fly to Vincent! http://klmf.ly/11RY77v

2013-05-08 21:36:16 (25 comments, 20 reshares, 201 +1s)

Sad day in history: Paul Gauguin died on this day in 1903. He was a close friend of Vincent van Gogh.

The painting ‘The Wine Harvest at Arles. 'Misères Humaines'’ by Gauguin from 1888 (collection: Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard) will be on view in our exhibition ‘Van Gogh at work’ from September 2013 till January 2014.

More info about the exhibition: http://bit.ly/YWZtez

2013-05-07 16:03:16 (27 comments, 21 reshares, 242 +1s)

‘I say to myself you’ve still received none of my work and I’ve already spent so much money. I’m sending you now in the crate all the studies I have, apart from a few I destroyed, but I’m not signing them all, and there are a dozen that I’ve taken off their stretching frames and there are 14 on stretching frames.
There’s a small landscape with a tumbledown house in white, red, green and a cypress beside it — you have the drawing of it and I painted it entirely at home. That should prove to you that if it suited you, I could make little paintings like Japanese prints out of all these drawings. Anyway, we’ll talk about it when you’ve had a look.’ – Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo, 7 May 1888

Full letter: http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let606/letter.html

Image: Vincent van Gogh, 'Landscape with a path and pollard willows'

2013-05-06 19:16:56 (10 comments, 13 reshares, 154 +1s)

Due to popular demand, Barbara Stok's travelling presentation of her graphic novel 'Vincent' is now on show in the OBA, Amsterdam's Central Library at the Oosterdokskade 43. You can visit the presentation until 30 June.

More info:http://bit.ly/UONPjA

The graphic novel is available in our online shop, in Dutch and English. http://bit.ly/VXo5bw

Image: detail from Barbara Stok’s comic book ‘Vincent’.

2013-05-03 15:08:43 (5 comments, 3 reshares, 50 +1s)

Tonight until 10 pm: a brand new start for our Friday Nights! Starring hiphop artist Typhoon and more.

More info: http://bit.ly/GXr9sF

2013-05-02 15:16:22 (26 comments, 35 reshares, 243 +1s)

Did you know that Vincent van Gogh’s only surviving palette, from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, is now on view in our exhibition Van Gogh at work?
Could you get any closer to the artist at work than this?

2013-05-01 10:54:18 (15 comments, 22 reshares, 135 +1s)

We’re open again at Museumplein! And welcomed our first visitors this morning to the jubilee exhibition ‘Van Gogh at work’.

An impression of the exhibition: http://youtu.be/awdbtj0me8E

2013-04-30 10:25:20 (7 comments, 11 reshares, 135 +1s)

Today Queen Beatrix passed the crown to her son, Prince Willem-Alexander.
 
In the past years she attended some special opening events in our museum. For example, in 1999 she opened our new exhibition wing in the presence of architect Kisho Kurokawa.

Photo: René Gerritsen

2013-04-29 13:56:45 (3 comments, 7 reshares, 100 +1s)

‘Ik denk te verhuizen tegen 1 Mei’ - Vincent van Gogh, 1885

‘I’m thinking of moving about 1 May’ - Vincent van Gogh, 1885

Full letter: http://bit.ly/10nl7sx

Only two more days until we reopen! Everyone is welcome from this Wednesday on! http://bit.ly/RcbjDz

2013-05-01 04:56:49 (19 comments, 10 reshares, 202 +1s)

Working on a video for 'Van Gogh at work' at +Van Gogh Museum with ClipForce

2013-04-26 11:21:27 (46 comments, 29 reshares, 347 +1s)

‘Sunflowers’ is back!

This top piece will be shown during the anniversary exhibition ‘Van Gogh at work’, marking our reopening on 1 May.

Photo: Martijn van den Dobbelsteen

More info: http://bit.ly/ZyTi61

2013-04-26 06:01:35 (16 comments, 6 reshares, 111 +1s)

Our last hours at the Hermitage Amsterdam have passed. We’re moving back to Museumplein!

Our directors Axel Rüger and Cathelijne Broers look back at a pleasant cooperation.

Photo: Van Gogh Museum

2013-04-24 14:29:20 (5 comments, 5 reshares, 104 +1s)

Only 1 week until the exhibition 'Van Gogh at work' opens on 1 May! Here’s a behind the scenes photo as the exhibition is being installed.

Are you looking forward to it as much as we do?

Photo: Van Gogh Museum

2013-04-23 12:43:14 (5 comments, 15 reshares, 92 +1s)

Today is a perfect day to walk the Van Gogh Mile!

Take your chance while you still can ;)
We're open at the Hermitage Amsterdam till Thursday.

More info: www.vangoghmuseum.com/vangoghmoves

2013-04-22 14:27:35 (3 comments, 5 reshares, 92 +1s)

We’re almost moving back to Museumplein! Vincent also moved a lot in his life. Sometimes he wrote about it:
‘If I thought I could do someone or other a favour by moving away from The Hague, I’d prefer to go away rather than bother anyone, it doesn’t matter where.’ - Vincent van Gogh, 12 or 13 May 1882

Full letter: http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let226/letter.html 

We are back on Museumplein from 1 May, presenting the anniversary exhibition ‘Van Gogh at work’. Tickets are available now:
Dutch: https://vangoghmuseum.globalticket.nl/lang/nl 
English: https://vangoghmuseum.globalticket.nl/lang/en  

2013-04-20 10:39:18 (16 comments, 23 reshares, 254 +1s)

A vague form with a halo stands on a boat with golden cables against a phosphorescent blue background. 

Do you think this is the Virgin Mary?

The dark figure has sometimes been interpreted as such, ‘Star of the Sea’, patron saint of sailors. Odilon Redon, however, left no evidence to support this interpretation. He stated that he consciously created a mysterious atmosphere in his work ‘through the double and triple meanings of images in images and forms that are coming into being, according to the viewer’s spiritual makeup’.

Today, is Redon’s birthday! He was born on 20 April, 1840.

Image: Odilon Redon (1840-1916), Vierge nimbée, 1898. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

2013-04-19 15:17:53 (17 comments, 26 reshares, 225 +1s)

Vincent van Gogh is best-known for his paintings, but he also produced many drawings. In fact, for the first three years of his artistic career, he worked mainly in pencil, chalk, and ink. Later, he made beautiful, independent works on paper.

Tomorrow at 2 pm Fleur Roos Rosa de Carvalho (curator of drawings and prints, Van Gogh Museum) will tell you all about Vincent’s drawings during the lecture ‘Van Gogh the draughtsman’.

This is our final Saturday lecture in the Hermitage Amsterdam. From 5 May a new series of Sunday lectures start in our renovated building on Museumplein!

Image: Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Tree with ivy in the garden of the asylum, 1889. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation).

2013-04-19 08:30:40 (26 comments, 17 reshares, 238 +1s)

Only 1 more week to visit ‘Vincent. The Van Gogh Museum in the Hermitage Amsterdam’!
http://bit.ly/xx2Igx

Photo: Michiel van Nieuwkerk

2013-04-17 15:07:25 (7 comments, 9 reshares, 128 +1s)

From this week until 3 May 2013 the presentation 'Vincent' by Barbara Stok is on view in the public library of Almere.

Have you seen it yet? It's your last chance!

More info: http://bit.ly/UONPjA

Image: detail from Barbara Stok’s comic book ‘Vincent’.

2013-04-16 15:54:36 (3 comments, 8 reshares, 101 +1s)

Tonight at 8:40 pm at the Belgium television channel Eén: the series 'Van Gogh; een huis voor Vincent'.

More info (jn Dutch): http://www.tv-visie.be/nieuws/belgie/nieuw-op-een-van-gogh-een-huis-voor-vincent_58342/

2013-04-15 17:50:31 (76 comments, 148 reshares, 708 +1s)

Happy World Art Day! 
“How much there is in art that is beautiful, if only one can remember what one has seen, one is never empty or truly lonely, and never alone.” - Vincent van Gogh (mid-November 1878)
Full letter: http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let148/letter.html

What’s your favourite art work?

Here’s a favourite from our collection:
Vincent van Gogh, Almond Blossom, 1890, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

2013-04-13 09:57:42 (10 comments, 11 reshares, 153 +1s)

‘Longing most of all for Rembrandt and Frans Hals, one day this week I’m going to the museum in Amsterdam’ – Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo, 4 October 1885 - http://bit.ly/10QzpE6

We welcome +Rijksmuseum back on Museumplein!

2013-04-12 12:46:06 (7 comments, 10 reshares, 124 +1s)

Tip! This Sunday there will be a lecture (in Dutch) at The Mesdag Collection by Eva Rovers. It’s about the importance of collectors for the art world. Helene Kröller-Müller will serve as an example, but Rovers will pass other art collectors under separate review as well.
 
The lecture starts at 2 pm.
 
More info (in Dutch): http://demesdagcollectie.nl/category/activiteiten/  
Photo: A corner of Hendrik Willem Mesdag's studio, with ship models on the cupboard, 1915. The Mesdag Collection, The Hague.

2013-04-11 14:11:23 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 80 +1s)

The touring exhibition ‘Van Gogh in Paris: New Perspectives’ attracted 410,000 visitors in Seoul, South Korea. Read more: http://bit.ly/Yf2TtI

The exhibition is now on show in Japan in the Municipal Museum of Art in Kyoto until 19 May 2013.

Photo: Korea Times by Choi Hung-soo

2013-04-10 15:05:39 (6 comments, 4 reshares, 82 +1s)

Only one more week (application deadline is 17 April) to subscribe to the course ‘The art of making art exhibitions’.
 
How do you make an exhibition? What does a curator do? Would you like to experience the world of art exhibitions? To find out, sign up for the course ‘The art of making art exhibitions’.

More info: http://bit.ly/12u7gbo

2013-04-09 15:33:20 (14 comments, 21 reshares, 161 +1s)

On this day in 1885 Vincent was working on his masterpiece ‘The potato eaters’. He wrote to his brother Theo:
 
‘Herewith two scratches after a couple of studies that I made,  while at the same time I’m working on those peasants around a dish of potatoes again. I’ve just come home from there — and have worked on it further by lamplight — although this time I started it in daylight. See, this is what the composition has now become. I’ve painted it on a fairly large canvas, and as the sketch is now, I believe there’s life in it.’
 
Full letter: http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let492/letter.html

2013-04-08 08:56:08 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 106 +1s)

Today, Monday 8 April 2013, the Hermitage Amsterdam is closed to the public. This day marks the official start of the Netherlands-Russia year 2013, an event which will be attended by heads of state. The presentation 'Vincent: The Van Gogh Museum in the Hermitage Amsterdam' as well as the exhibition 'Peter the Great, an Inspired tsar' will therefore be closed to museum visitors.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. We look forward to welcoming you again from 9 April 2013 when the museum will open at 9 am.

2013-04-05 12:04:26 (4 comments, 4 reshares, 76 +1s)

The refurbishment of our museumbuilding on Museumplein has now been completed. The museum is starting the fitting out of its as yet empty building with the large jubilee exhibition entitled 'Van Gogh at work' which will herald its re-opening on 1 May 2013.

More info on the refurbishment: http://bit.ly/10uUIuE
More info on the exhibition: http://bit.ly/YWZtez

2013-04-04 14:51:58 (15 comments, 13 reshares, 166 +1s)

Only 3 more weeks to visit ‘Vincent. The Van Gogh Museum in the Hermitage Amsterdam’. Are you dropping by?

Photo: Michiel van Nieuwkerk

2013-04-03 15:42:37 (14 comments, 19 reshares, 148 +1s)

Fifty works by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) from our collection are on tour in Japan and South Korea. Yesterday the exhibition Van Gogh in Paris: New perspectives opened at Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art in Kyoto. It runs until 19 May 2013.
 
More info: http://www.city.kyoto.jp/bunshi/kmma/en/exhibition/gogh.html + http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=293613&lang=en

2013-04-03 11:23:53 (24 comments, 21 reshares, 197 +1s)

Our refurbishment is now complete! Take a sneak peek.
 
More info: http://bit.ly/10uUIuE
 
We hope to see you again on Museumplein from 1 May. But until 25 April you can visit us in Hermitage Amsterdam.
 
Photos: Martijn van den Dobbelsteen

2013-05-20 15:43:42 (77 comments, 84 reshares, 595 +1s)

Today it's Vincent van Gogh's birthday!
Is it your birthday too? Then you can get free access to our presentation 'Vincent' in the Hermitage Amsterdam. Don’t forget to bring your passport or identity card to show at the entrance of Hermitage Amsterdam. 

And there's more: a free lecture (in Dutch) at 2 pm and we are open until 6pm!

Happy birthday!

http://bit.ly/ZHXQVg

Image: Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Self-portrait with grey felt hat, 1887, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

2013-03-29 12:27:41 (5 comments, 8 reshares, 111 +1s)

Tomorrow, Saturday 30 March, at 2 pm:
A free lecture by researcher Teio Meedendorp: 'How to become an artist. Van Gogh, the art student'
 
On Van Gogh’s 160th birthday, we present a lecture on the artist's profession. Van Gogh may be seen primarily as self-taught, but he did take lessons in various places, including the art academies in Brussels and Antwerp. But these experiences left him with a deep loathing of traditional education. He also learned a great deal in his early career from manuals and drawing courses, and from endless copying. Thanks to all this work, his limited technical skills soon evolved into an expressive drawing style.
 
Starts at 2 pm in the auditorium of Hermitage Amsterdam, Amstel 51
Photo: Cormon’s studio where Vincent van Gogh attended art class.

2013-03-28 13:10:59 (6 comments, 13 reshares, 131 +1s)

We recently acquired two colour woodcuts, 'Le Palais de Justice, vu du Pont Notre-Dame' (1889) by Auguste Lepère and 'Effet de neige' (1890-1892) by Henri Guérard.

These newly purchased works show an aspect that, until recently, was less represented in our 19th century print collection: the colour woodcut.
At the end of the 19th century colour woodcuts experienced a revival in France, influenced in part by Japanese printmaking. With their unusual perspectives, bright colour blocks, strong contours and silhouettes, Japanese woodcuts provided an inexhaustible source of inspiration for many western artists seeking a modern style, including Vincent van Gogh. He used Japanese style elements in his paintings and drawings, while other artists experimented with Japanese woodcut techniques, like Lepère and Guérard.
Images:

Top image: Auguste Lepère (1849-1918), LePala... more »

2013-04-10 08:19:38 (7 comments, 5 reshares, 124 +1s)

Extended opening hours this Easter weekend:
Friday 29 March until Monday 1 April you can visit us in Hermitage Amsterdam from 9 am until 6 pm (instead of 5 pm).

More info: http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=194&lang=en

Happy Easter!

(Photo: Michiel van Nieuwkerk)

2013-03-25 14:21:32 (10 comments, 9 reshares, 91 +1s)

Tonight part 3 of Dutch tv-series Van Gogh; Een huis voor Vincent (Van Gogh; A house for Vincent). Vincent moves to Paris to live with his brother Theo. He gets acquainted with the Impressionists’ painting style and his palette becomes brighter and his brushwork more broken. In 1888 he decides to move to Arles to recover his physical strength and to start an artists’ cooporative. He invites Paul Gauguin to join him…
 
Ned 1 10.05 pm
 
Missed episode 2? It’s still on view at http://www.eo.nl/tv/van-gogh-een-huis-voor-vincent/
 
Photo: Barry Atsma as Vincent van Gogh (left) and Guy Rombaux as Paul Gauguin (right)

2013-03-22 16:22:52 (11 comments, 15 reshares, 151 +1s)

In the spring of 1877 Van Gogh lived with his family in Amsterdam to study for his entrance examinations in order to gain a place at university, where he wanted to begin his training to be a minister of religion. Instead of studying he preferred to stroll through the city and visit churches.

Henk Schut recreated the walk Van Gogh might have taken in today’s city with his artwork the Van Gogh Mile. In the courtyard of the Hermitage Amsterdam you can listen to a sound composition based on the church bells from Amsterdam.

Photo: Martijn van den Dobbelsteen

2013-03-19 15:30:32 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 38 +1s)

Great video on our exhibition at TEFAF (open until 24 March 2013): Van Gogh’s Drawings: Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum. Axel Rüger, the museum’s Director, Marije Vellekoop, Head of Collections, and V. Willem Van Gogh, Advisor to the Board, discuss the enduring appeal of the Dutch artist, as well as plans for the newly renovated museum space.

2013-03-18 12:37:12 (9 comments, 4 reshares, 103 +1s)

Tonight part 2 of Dutch tv-series 'Van Gogh; Een huis voor Vincent' (Van Gogh; a house for Vincent) in which Vincent ends his relationship with Sien and he goes to live with his parents in Nuenen. He decides to be a ‘peasant painter’ and creates his first masterpiece 'The potato eaters'.

Ned 1 10:05 pm.

Missed episode 1?  It’s still on view at http://www.eo.nl/tv/van-gogh-een-huis-voor-vincent/