News archive 2011
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16 December 2011: Festive presentation of the AICA Award 2011 in the Van Gogh Museum for the exhibition 'Van Gogh’s letters. The artist speaks'
The Van Gogh Museum is presented with the AICA Award for the exhibition
Van Gogh’s Letters. The artist speaks, held in the autumn of 2009.
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7 December 2011: Winners 2nd round of 'Take a snapshot!' photo competition announced
Van Gogh Museum global photo competition attracts 1000 entries.
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30 November 2011: 1.5 millionth visitor to the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has welcomed 1.5 million visitors already this year. That’s an increase of about 10% since 2010, and it puts the museum on course for one of the busiest years ever.
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17 October 2011: New biography Vincent van Gogh
Today a new biography was released: Van Gogh, The life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith. The publication of this biography represents a major contribution to our understanding of Vincent van Gogh's life and work, with intriguing new perspectives.
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13 October 2011: Van Gogh Museum acquires painting 'The Mumps' by Vuillard
The Van Gogh Museum has enriched its collection with The Mumps (1892-93) by Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940), the first painting by this artist in its collection.
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29 September 2011: Van Gogh Museum awarded AICA Oorkonde 2011
AICA Nederland (Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art) has awarded the Van Gogh Museum the AICA Award 2011 for the exhibition Van Gogh’s letters. The artist speaks, which ran from 9 October 2009 until 3 January 2010.
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28 September 2011: Vincent or Theo? More than 1,300 responses.
When we asked whether you agree with our researchers, you responded in huge numbers. They believe that one of Vincent van Gogh's supposed self-portraits actually shows his brother Theo. Most of you agreed.
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1 September 2011: All of Vincent van Gogh’s letters to be translated into Chinese
Chinese translation of Van Gogh’s letters due for publication in 2013.
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9 August 2011: Van Gogh Museum welcomes millionth visitor sooner than expected
Today Axel Rüger, director of the Van Gogh Museum, welcomed the museum's millionth visitor this year.
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24 June 2011: Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum temporarily on view in The Hermitage Amsterdam
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam will begin renovation at the end of 2012 in order to ensure the condition of the building and the safety of the visitors in the long run. Masterpieces by Van Gogh will remain on view during the renovation: they will be presented in the Herenvleugel of the Hermitage Amsterdam as of October 2012.
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21 June 2011: New standard work: 'Vincent van Gogh, Paintings 2. Antwerp and Paris, 1885-1888'
Vincent van Gogh, Paintings 2. Antwerp and Paris, 1885-1888 focuses on 93 paintings that are central to Van Gogh’s years in Antwerp and Paris, a period that has been somewhat underexposed in the past. This is the first time the paintings produced in this period have been subjected to detailed scrutiny and interpretation.
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14 June 2011: Summer Programme at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
Vincent van Gogh’s The Bedroom has returned from its journey to Japan. Starting on 10 June, it will even be possible to admire The Bedroom in 3D. The major new exhibition Van Gogh in Antwerp and Paris: New perspectives shows Van Gogh experiencing a reawakening as a truly modern artist.
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1 June: Van Gogh Museum presents new corporate identity
rom today the Van Gogh Museum has a new corporate identity built around the artist's characteristic brush strokes, his use of blue and yellow as featured in the enormously popular works Sunflowers and Almond Blossom, and quotes from Van Gogh’s letters.
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30 May 2011: ‘Picasso in Paris’ attracts 471,168 visitors at Van Gogh Museum
This exhibition is one of the best visited in the history of the museum.
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20 april 2011: Van Gogh Museum acquires two works by Pissarro
The Van Gogh Museum has enriched its collection with the purchase of two works by Camille Pissarro (1831-1903): the painting The haymaking, Éragny (1887) and the gouache Cowgirl in morning sun (1887).
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22 March 2011: Van Gogh tulip
A tulip has been named after Vincent van Gogh by director Axel Rüger in a ceremony at the museum in Amsterdam.
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14 February 2011: X-Rays show why van Gogh paintings lose their shine
Scientists have identified a complex chemical reaction responsible for the degradation of two paintings by Vincent van Gogh and other artists of the late 19th century. This discovery is a first step to understanding how to stop the bright yellow colours of van Gogh’s most famous paintings from being covered by a brown shade, and fading over time. In the meantime, the results suggest shielding affected paintings as much as possible from UV and sunlight.
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Night Watch and The Bedroom in gigapixels
Google launched the Art Project, a collaboration of 17 of the world's most acclaimed art museums, including Van Gogh Museum and Rijksmuseum. The museums selected one piece of artwork from their collection, which Google then photographed in gigapixels. Around 1,000 objects from the same museums were also photographed in high resolution, and 385 museum galleries can be viewed.