Van Gogh Museum
The Van Gogh Museum is a
museum in
Amsterdam,
The Netherlands, featuring the works of the
Dutch painter
Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries. It has the largest collection of Van Gogh's paintings and drawings in the world.
Encyclopedia
The
Van Gogh Museum is a
museum in
Amsterdam,
The Netherlands, featuring the works of the
Dutch painter
Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries. It has the largest collection of Van Gogh's paintings and drawings in the world.
Main exhibition
The main exhibition chronicles the phases of Van Gogh's life, from his childhood to his various emotional stages through his death. Highlights include
The Potato Eaters,
Bedroom in Arles and one of the three
Sunflowers paintings with a yellow background.
The building
The main structure was designed by
Gerrit Rietveld and opened in
1973. The
architect of the Exhibition Wing was
Kisho Kurokawa; it was completed in
1999.Gojko
Theft of paintings in the museum
On the night of 7 December 2002 two of Van Gogh's works were stolen from the museum:
View of the Sea at Scheveningen and
Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen .
On December 12 2003, Octave Durham was arrested in Puerto Banus, Spain. Henk Bieslijn was arrested on an unspecified date in 2003 in Amsterdam. On April 8 2005, Durham was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison, and Biesljn was sentenced to 4 years. They were also ordered to pay EUR 350,000 in damages. To date, the stolen paintings have not been recovered. Due to loopholes in Dutch law, both men may be able to claim ownership of the stolen works after 20 to 30 years.
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