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Van Gogh Museum

The Van Gogh Museum is a museum

Museum

A museum is a "permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment, for the purposes of education, study, and entertainment", as defined by the International Coun...
in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the Capital of the Netherlands and List of cities in the Netherlands with over 100,000 people of the Netherlands, located in the Provinces of the Netherlands of North Holland in the west of the country....
, The Netherlands, featuring the works of the Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
painter Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch people Post-Impressionism artist. Some of his paintings are now among the world's best known, most popular and expensive works of art....
and his contemporaries. It has the largest collection of Van Gogh's paintings and drawings in the world.

main exhibition chronicles the phases of Van Gogh's life, from his childhood to his various emotional stages through his death.

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The Van Gogh Museum is a museum

Museum

Amsterdam

Netherlands

Vincent van Gogh

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
The Potato Eaters

The Potato Eaters is a painting by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh that he painted in April 1885 while in Nuenen, Netherlands. It is housed in the Van Gogh Museum of Amsterdam....
, Bedroom in Arles
Bedroom in Arles

Bedroom in Arles is the title given to each of three similar paintings by 1800s Netherlands Post-Impressionist Painting Vincent van Gogh....
and one of the three Sunflowers

Sunflowers (series of paintings)

Sunflowers are the subject of a series of still life paintings executed in oil on canvas by the Netherlands painter Vincent van Gogh. Among the Sunflowers paintings are three similar paintings with fifteen sunflowers in a vase, and two similar paintings with twelve sunflowers in a vase....
paintings with a yellow background.

The museum holds extensive exhibitions on various subjects from 19th Century art history.

The building

The main structure was designed by Gerrit Rietveld

Gerrit Rietveld

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld was a Netherlands furniture designer and architect.In 1916, Rietveld started his own furniture factory, while studying architecture....
and opened in 1973

1973 in architecture

The year 1973 in architecture involved some significant events....
. The architect

Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
of the Exhibition Wing was Kisho Kurokawa; it was completed in 1999

1999 in architecture

The year 1999 in architecture involved some significant events....
.

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
Scheveningen

Media:Nl-Scheveningen.ogg is one of the eight districts of The Hague, as well as one of its subdistricts .Scheveningen is a modern seaside resort with a long sandy beach, an esplanade, a pier, and a lighthouse....
(Zeegezicht bij Scheveningen) and Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church
Dutch Reformed Church

Dutch Reformed Church was one of many branches of churches established during the Protestant Reformation in Europe in the sixteenth century. While the Dutch Reformed Church was based in the Netherlands, other churches holding similar theological views were founded in France, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, England, and Scotland....
in Nuenen
Nuenen

Nuenen is a town in the municipality of Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten, in The Netherlands.Vincent Van Gogh resided in Nuenen from 1883-1885. At least one of his paintings features a scene in the town ? Congregation Leaving the Dutch Reformed Church in Nuenen which was stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in December 2002....
(Het uitgaan van de hervormde kerk te 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 Bieslijn was sentenced to 4 years. They were also ordered to pay €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.

Van Gogh Museum

Main exhibition

The building

Theft of paintings in the museum

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