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An Artist’s Life VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Vincent van Gogh (1853–90), born Practical Information
in Zundert, began painting in 1880. Paulus Potterstraat 7. Map 4 E3.
He worked in the Netherlands for five years Tel 020-5705200.
∑ vangoghmuseum.com
before moving to Paris, later settling in Arles.
After a fierce argument with Gauguin, he cut Open 10am–5pm daily,
10am–10pm Fri. Closed 1 Jan.
off part of his own ear; his mental instability & ^ 9 7 - 0 =
forced him into a psychiatric hospital in
Saint-Rémy. He sought help in Auvers, where Transport
he shot himself, dying two days later. Van Gogh in 1871 v 2, 3, 5, 12, 16.

First floor
Pietà
Lift (after Delacroix) (1889)
Van Gogh painted this
work while in the
hospital at Saint-Rémy.
Stairs The figure of Christ
is thought to be a
self-portrait.

Lift

Stairs

Ground floor: . Wheatfield and Crows (1890)
Temporary exhibitions The menacing crows and
of 19th-century art violence of the sky in one of
his last paintings show the
depth of Van Gogh’s
Escalator to mental anguish.
new wing
Lift to new wing
Basement

Lift

Stairs

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Main Entrance via
entrance escalator Lift to Rietveld wing Pool

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