The Museum of Van Goth in Amsterdam
The Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam is one of the most interesting galleries now, first of all because of its atmosphere and the focus on unusual art.
It collects the exhibitions of Vincent van Goghs works and pictures of his contemporaries and friends. Vase with twelve sunflowers by van Goth. The painter of sunflowers by Paul Gauguin.
Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on 30 March 1853 in a village in the south of the Netherlands. As a child, Vincent was serious, silent and thoughtful. Vincent in childhood.
Vincent was a very dark and strange man, but a very talented artist, who created a lot of world masterpieces. He seriously started his artistic career in 1888 when he was 35 years old.
His creative career spanned nearly ten years. Van Gogh had a great influence on modern art and especially on postimpressionism. He had a great number of self-portraits.
The Museum of Van Gogh in Amsterdam was opened in 1973 with the help of Vincents nephew.
The museum consists of two buildings: the Rietveld building, designed by Gerrit Rietveld, and the Kurokawa wing, designed by Kisho Kurokawa.
Some paintings were stolen from the museum and two of them still are not found. One of the paintings, which were stolen and than given back to the museum is famous van Goths The Potato Eaters:
The most famous works by van Goth are: Wheat Field Under Clouded Sky.
Wheat Field with Crows. And a lot of another impressive paintings.