This feature is a new look at the Van Gogh legacy through the world\u2019s largest private collection, that of Helene Kr\u00f6ller-M\u00fcller (1869-1939). In the early 20th Century, she bought nearly 300 of his works, paintings and drawings.
\nThe story unfolds with a woman who identified with Van Gogh\u2019s spiritual torment, and came to buy priceless artistic treasures. The collection is set in the naturalistic and architectural beauty of the vast De Hoge Weluge park. It tells the parable of the painter\u2019s life, using passages from his brother Theo\u2019s letters to set the pace of the exhibition, and it shows images of the places he lived and stayed in, from Paris to Provence. This collection and of the burning passion for art that led to it offers an outstanding window into the life and art of Van Gogh. \u2018Amid wheat fields and clouded skies\u2019 brings together 40 paintings and 85 drawings from the Kr\u00f6ller-M\u00fcller Museum in Otterlo, Holland, now home to Helene\u2019s heritage.
\nThe feature tells us about Van Gogh\u2019s art and his genius, and allows us to understand the importance of drawing as part of his artistic technique. His seemingly instinctive canvases were the result of long, preparatory studies, not sketches but complete works of art in themselves, where the broken flow of lines that characterizes the style of his paintings can already be found.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This feature is a new look at the Van Gogh legacy through the world\u2019s largest private collection, that of Helene Kr\u00f6ller-M\u00fcller (1869-1939). In the early 20th Century, she bought nearly 300 of his works, paintings and drawings. The story unfolds with a woman who identified with Van Gogh\u2019s spiritual torment, and came to buy priceless […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n