VINCENT VAN GOGH THE LETTERSBY PERIODBY CORRESPONDENTBY PLACEWITH SKETCHESVAN GOGH AS LETTER-WRITER Edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker. The letters are the window to Van Gogh's universe. This edition, the product of 15 years of research at the Van Gogh Museum and Huygens ING, contains all Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, his artist friends Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard, and many others. Here you will find the letters in the latest edition (2009), richly annotated

THE LETTERS

001 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 29 September 1872. 001a To Hendrik Verzijl. The Hague, Saturday, 26 October 1872. 002 To Theo van

Gogh.

CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY A French mould-made paper that comes in various thicknesses and is particularly suitable for drawings. It is a mingle-coloured paper, with a special grain and watermark (see Heenk 1995, p. 27). In Van Gogh’s terminology, ‘Ingres’ stands for any kind of laid paper, but that is an incorrect widening of the meaning. CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY In addition to the 902 surviving letters there must have been at least 550 to Van Gogh and 290 from him that we no longer have. Van Gogh is known to have corresponded with the people listed below, but the letters have not survived. UPDATES - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS Updates (version June 2012) Letters. A recently discovered letter was added (letter 1a).. Letter 12, n. 7 changed to: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Britain’s oldest public gallery with a famous collection of seventeenth-century paintings. On Monday, 4 August, Van Gogh wrote his signature ‘VWvanGogh the Hague’ in the visitor’s book (Documentation Dulwich Picture Gallery). CHRONOLOGY - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS In addition to biographical information, such as dates of employment and changes of address, it also lists Vincent ’s visits to museums and exhibitions, his meetings with artists and others who played an important part in the correspondence, as well as a selection of the books he read (see the Bibliography and Van der Veen 2007, Annexe III, for an extensive list of the authors and books BIOGRAPHICAL & HISTORICAL CONTEXT Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) grew up in a vicar’s family. His grandfather Vincent van Gogh (1789-1874), of respectable middle-class parents, married Elisabeth Huberta Vrijdag (1790-1857) in 1811. He took up his ministry in Breda on 3 November 1822, and was curator of the city’s Latin School from 1828, chaplain of the Military Academy, and a member of the board of the Protestant ‘Society

PUBLICATION HISTORY

In 1898 the cousins Paul and Bruno Cassirer established an art gallery and publishing house. They parted company in 1901, and from that moment on Paul, the art dealer, was one of the driving forces behind the spread of Van Gogh’s work in Germany, while Bruno, the publisher, did the same for the letters. 37 37.

PUBLICATION HISTORY

The activities of the art lover and ‘art educationalist’ H.P. Bremmer had a major influence on the Van Gogh reception in the Netherlands. He published widely on Van Gogh, in the journals he ran, Moderne Kunstwerken (1903-1910) and Beeldende Kunst (1913-1938), and elsewhere. 52 He gave lessons and courses on modern art, frequently using Van Gogh to illustrate his ideas. CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY Sophie (Fie) Cornelia Elisabeth (Tante Fie) Carbentus-Van Bemmel (Aunt Fie) (1828-1897) wife of Arie Carbentus, brother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Anna Cornelia Carbentus-Van der Gaag (1792-1855) mother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus, grandmother of Vincent. Arie Carbentus (1826-1875) brother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. VINCENT VAN GOGH THE LETTERSBY PERIODBY CORRESPONDENTBY PLACEWITH SKETCHESVAN GOGH AS LETTER-WRITER Edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker. The letters are the window to Van Gogh's universe. This edition, the product of 15 years of research at the Van Gogh Museum and Huygens ING, contains all Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, his artist friends Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard, and many others. Here you will find the letters in the latest edition (2009), richly annotated

THE LETTERS

001 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 29 September 1872. 001a To Hendrik Verzijl. The Hague, Saturday, 26 October 1872. 002 To Theo van

Gogh.

CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY A French mould-made paper that comes in various thicknesses and is particularly suitable for drawings. It is a mingle-coloured paper, with a special grain and watermark (see Heenk 1995, p. 27). In Van Gogh’s terminology, ‘Ingres’ stands for any kind of laid paper, but that is an incorrect widening of the meaning. CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY In addition to the 902 surviving letters there must have been at least 550 to Van Gogh and 290 from him that we no longer have. Van Gogh is known to have corresponded with the people listed below, but the letters have not survived. UPDATES - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS Updates (version June 2012) Letters. A recently discovered letter was added (letter 1a).. Letter 12, n. 7 changed to: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Britain’s oldest public gallery with a famous collection of seventeenth-century paintings. On Monday, 4 August, Van Gogh wrote his signature ‘VWvanGogh the Hague’ in the visitor’s book (Documentation Dulwich Picture Gallery). CHRONOLOGY - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS In addition to biographical information, such as dates of employment and changes of address, it also lists Vincent ’s visits to museums and exhibitions, his meetings with artists and others who played an important part in the correspondence, as well as a selection of the books he read (see the Bibliography and Van der Veen 2007, Annexe III, for an extensive list of the authors and books BIOGRAPHICAL & HISTORICAL CONTEXT Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) grew up in a vicar’s family. His grandfather Vincent van Gogh (1789-1874), of respectable middle-class parents, married Elisabeth Huberta Vrijdag (1790-1857) in 1811. He took up his ministry in Breda on 3 November 1822, and was curator of the city’s Latin School from 1828, chaplain of the Military Academy, and a member of the board of the Protestant ‘Society

PUBLICATION HISTORY

In 1898 the cousins Paul and Bruno Cassirer established an art gallery and publishing house. They parted company in 1901, and from that moment on Paul, the art dealer, was one of the driving forces behind the spread of Van Gogh’s work in Germany, while Bruno, the publisher, did the same for the letters. 37 37.

PUBLICATION HISTORY

The activities of the art lover and ‘art educationalist’ H.P. Bremmer had a major influence on the Van Gogh reception in the Netherlands. He published widely on Van Gogh, in the journals he ran, Moderne Kunstwerken (1903-1910) and Beeldende Kunst (1913-1938), and elsewhere. 52 He gave lessons and courses on modern art, frequently using Van Gogh to illustrate his ideas. CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY Sophie (Fie) Cornelia Elisabeth (Tante Fie) Carbentus-Van Bemmel (Aunt Fie) (1828-1897) wife of Arie Carbentus, brother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Anna Cornelia Carbentus-Van der Gaag (1792-1855) mother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus, grandmother of Vincent. Arie Carbentus (1826-1875) brother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY Included in this edition are 25 letters that are either unfinished, crossed out, incomplete and/or were not sent which have been grouped together in this edition as ‘Related manuscripts’: a one-line note from Paul Gachet, Van Gogh’s doctor in Auvers, and 24 letters by Van

Gogh.

VINCENT VAN GOGH

Now also available: The Quintessential Van Gogh The Best of his Letters. Five years after the launch of the successful six-volume publication Vincent van Gogh – The Letters, the Van Gogh Museum is collaborating with numerous international publishers to produce an anthology featuring a selection of his finest correspondence.. In addition to 265 of his letters, the publication features a

ABOUT THIS EDITION

All the surviving letters written and received by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) are contained in this edition of his correspondence. 1). Excepting only the digital form in which they are now being published, this is the continuation of a long tradition. CHRONOLOGY - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS In addition to biographical information, such as dates of employment and changes of address, it also lists Vincent ’s visits to museums and exhibitions, his meetings with artists and others who played an important part in the correspondence, as well as a selection of the books he read (see the Bibliography and Van der Veen 2007, Annexe III, for an extensive list of the authors and books

QUICK GUIDE

Quick guide. All the letters written and received by Vincent van Gogh are presented in this web edition: 902 letters and 25 'Related Manuscripts' (such as loose sheets and unsent drafts of letters). They can also be accessed by period, correspondent and place, or by selecting those containing sketches . VAN GOGH AS A LETTER-WRITER Another threat is posed to the letters by iron-gall ink corrosion. In the period 1880-1885, in particular, Van Gogh often used iron-gall ink, which in the course of time reacted with water vapour in the air, with the result that the paper was literally eaten away by acid. 73, The more ink that was used the stronger the reaction, which has led to the letter sketches, in particular, becoming

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Hints. Preferred browser This site should work with any modern browser. However, it has been optimised for and tested most extensively with Firefox versions 3.0 and higher. Printing The letters are displayed in two or more columns. If you want to print all the information about a letter, click the Print button in the letter title bar. This will display letter metadata, original text THE LETTERS BY CORRESPONDENT The letters by correspondent. 001 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 29 September 1872. 002 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 13 December 1872. 003 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, mid-January 1873. 004 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 28 January 1873. VAN GOGH AS A LETTER-WRITER In 1973, Hulsker was the first to focus attention on ‘Van Gogh as a writer’. 40 His aim was to show that, on the evidence of the prose of the letters, that Van Gogh could have been a writer if he had not become an artist, partly in the light of his own words that if he did not succeed as a painter ‘I would either go into the business or I

would write’ ().

CORRESPONDENTS

By far the majority (651 out of 820) of Van Gogh’s letters are addressed to Theo, his brother and maecenas. The earliest known one dates from 29 September 1872, just after the 15-year-old Theo had spent a few days in The Hague with his brother, who was four years his

senior.

VINCENT VAN GOGH THE LETTERSBY PERIODBY CORRESPONDENTBY PLACEWITH SKETCHESVAN GOGH AS LETTER-WRITER Edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker. The letters are the window to Van Gogh's universe. This edition, the product of 15 years of research at the Van Gogh Museum and Huygens ING, contains all Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, his artist friends Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard, and many others. Here you will find the letters in the latest edition (2009), richly annotated

THE LETTERS

001 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 29 September 1872. 001a To Hendrik Verzijl. The Hague, Saturday, 26 October 1872. 002 To Theo van

Gogh.

CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY In his letters written in French, Van Gogh refers to numbered canvas sizes. In Van Gogh’s day, commercially primed canvases could be bought ready-stretched on standard-sized wooden frames (either fixed strainers, or stretchers that could be enlarged by tapping out). CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY In addition to the 902 surviving letters there must have been at least 550 to Van Gogh and 290 from him that we no longer have. Van Gogh is known to have corresponded with the people listed below, but the letters have not survived. UPDATES - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS Updates (version June 2012) Letters. A recently discovered letter was added (letter 1a).. Letter 12, n. 7 changed to: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Britain’s oldest public gallery with a famous collection of seventeenth-century paintings. On Monday, 4 August, Van Gogh wrote his signature ‘VWvanGogh the Hague’ in the visitor’s book (Documentation Dulwich Picture Gallery). CHRONOLOGY - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS In addition to biographical information, such as dates of employment and changes of address, it also lists Vincent ’s visits to museums and exhibitions, his meetings with artists and others who played an important part in the correspondence, as well as a selection of the books he read (see the Bibliography and Van der Veen 2007, Annexe III, for an extensive list of the authors and books

PUBLICATION HISTORY

With the inclusion of quotations from the letters in his catalogue, Roland Holst was the first person to publicly establish a connection between Van Gogh’s work and his letters, but it would have reached a small and almost exclusively Dutch audience. This changed in August 1893 when longer extracts appeared in the Dutch-language Belgian avant-garde magazine Van Nu en Straks. 15

PUBLICATION HISTORY

The activities of the art lover and ‘art educationalist’ H.P. Bremmer had a major influence on the Van Gogh reception in the Netherlands. He published widely on Van Gogh, in the journals he ran, Moderne Kunstwerken (1903-1910) and Beeldende Kunst (1913-1938), and elsewhere. 52 He gave lessons and courses on modern art, frequently using Van Gogh to illustrate his ideas. CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY Edwin Austin Abbey (1852-1911) American artist; Andreas Achenbach (1815-1910) German artist; Sarah Flower Adams (1805-1848) English writer; August Carl Adler (1835-1907) clergyman in Amsterdam; Adriana Aertsen (Aerssen or Aarssen) (1851-after 1883) daughter of Jan Aertsen; Cormelia Aertsen (Aerssen or Aarssen) (1837-after 1910) daughter of Jan Aertsen; Hendrik (Hein) Aertsen (Aerssen or THE LETTERS BY CORRESPONDENT 575 To Emile Bernard. Paris, about December 1887. 587 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Sunday, 18 March 1888. 596 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Thursday, 12 April 1888. VINCENT VAN GOGH THE LETTERSBY PERIODBY CORRESPONDENTBY PLACEWITH SKETCHESVAN GOGH AS LETTER-WRITER Edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker. The letters are the window to Van Gogh's universe. This edition, the product of 15 years of research at the Van Gogh Museum and Huygens ING, contains all Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, his artist friends Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard, and many others. Here you will find the letters in the latest edition (2009), richly annotated

THE LETTERS

001 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 29 September 1872. 001a To Hendrik Verzijl. The Hague, Saturday, 26 October 1872. 002 To Theo van

Gogh.

CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY In his letters written in French, Van Gogh refers to numbered canvas sizes. In Van Gogh’s day, commercially primed canvases could be bought ready-stretched on standard-sized wooden frames (either fixed strainers, or stretchers that could be enlarged by tapping out). CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY In addition to the 902 surviving letters there must have been at least 550 to Van Gogh and 290 from him that we no longer have. Van Gogh is known to have corresponded with the people listed below, but the letters have not survived. UPDATES - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS Updates (version June 2012) Letters. A recently discovered letter was added (letter 1a).. Letter 12, n. 7 changed to: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Britain’s oldest public gallery with a famous collection of seventeenth-century paintings. On Monday, 4 August, Van Gogh wrote his signature ‘VWvanGogh the Hague’ in the visitor’s book (Documentation Dulwich Picture Gallery). CHRONOLOGY - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS In addition to biographical information, such as dates of employment and changes of address, it also lists Vincent ’s visits to museums and exhibitions, his meetings with artists and others who played an important part in the correspondence, as well as a selection of the books he read (see the Bibliography and Van der Veen 2007, Annexe III, for an extensive list of the authors and books

PUBLICATION HISTORY

With the inclusion of quotations from the letters in his catalogue, Roland Holst was the first person to publicly establish a connection between Van Gogh’s work and his letters, but it would have reached a small and almost exclusively Dutch audience. This changed in August 1893 when longer extracts appeared in the Dutch-language Belgian avant-garde magazine Van Nu en Straks. 15

PUBLICATION HISTORY

The activities of the art lover and ‘art educationalist’ H.P. Bremmer had a major influence on the Van Gogh reception in the Netherlands. He published widely on Van Gogh, in the journals he ran, Moderne Kunstwerken (1903-1910) and Beeldende Kunst (1913-1938), and elsewhere. 52 He gave lessons and courses on modern art, frequently using Van Gogh to illustrate his ideas. CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY Edwin Austin Abbey (1852-1911) American artist; Andreas Achenbach (1815-1910) German artist; Sarah Flower Adams (1805-1848) English writer; August Carl Adler (1835-1907) clergyman in Amsterdam; Adriana Aertsen (Aerssen or Aarssen) (1851-after 1883) daughter of Jan Aertsen; Cormelia Aertsen (Aerssen or Aarssen) (1837-after 1910) daughter of Jan Aertsen; Hendrik (Hein) Aertsen (Aerssen or THE LETTERS BY CORRESPONDENT 575 To Emile Bernard. Paris, about December 1887. 587 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Sunday, 18 March 1888. 596 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Thursday, 12 April 1888. CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY Included in this edition are 25 letters that are either unfinished, crossed out, incomplete and/or were not sent which have been grouped together in this edition as ‘Related manuscripts’: a one-line note from Paul Gachet, Van Gogh’s doctor in Auvers, and 24 letters by Van

Gogh.

UPDATES - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS Updates (version June 2012) Letters. A recently discovered letter was added (letter 1a).. Letter 12, n. 7 changed to: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Britain’s oldest public gallery with a famous collection of seventeenth-century paintings. On Monday, 4 August, Van Gogh wrote his signature ‘VWvanGogh the Hague’ in the visitor’s book (Documentation Dulwich Picture Gallery).

VINCENT VAN GOGH

Now also available: The Quintessential Van Gogh The Best of his Letters. Five years after the launch of the successful six-volume publication Vincent van Gogh – The Letters, the Van Gogh Museum is collaborating with numerous international publishers to produce an anthology featuring a selection of his finest correspondence.. In addition to 265 of his letters, the publication features a

ABOUT THIS EDITION

All the surviving letters written and received by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) are contained in this edition of his correspondence. 1). Excepting only the digital form in which they are now being published, this is the continuation of a long tradition. CHRONOLOGY - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS In addition to biographical information, such as dates of employment and changes of address, it also lists Vincent ’s visits to museums and exhibitions, his meetings with artists and others who played an important part in the correspondence, as well as a selection of the books he read (see the Bibliography and Van der Veen 2007, Annexe III, for an extensive list of the authors and books

QUICK GUIDE

All the letters written and received by Vincent van Gogh are presented in this web edition: 902 letters and 25 'Related Manuscripts' (such as loose sheets and unsent drafts of letters).

HELP INFORMATION

Hints. Preferred browser This site should work with any modern browser. However, it has been optimised for and tested most extensively with Firefox versions 3.0 and higher. Printing The letters are displayed in two or more columns. If you want to print all the information about a letter, click the Print button in the letter title bar. This will display letter metadata, original text VAN GOGH AS A LETTER-WRITER Another threat is posed to the letters by iron-gall ink corrosion. In the period 1880-1885, in particular, Van Gogh often used iron-gall ink, which in the course of time reacted with water vapour in the air, with the result that the paper was literally eaten away by acid. 73, The more ink that was used the stronger the reaction, which has led to the letter sketches, in particular, becoming VAN GOGH AS A LETTER-WRITER When the correspondence between the Van Gogh brothers opened on 29 September 1872 with the words ‘My dear Theo’, 10 the 19-year-old Vincent had already been working for three years in the Hague branch of the French art and print dealers Goupil & Cie under the supervision of the young and energetic H.G. Tersteeg.It can be assumed that Tersteeg was an important formative influence on Vincent VAN GOGH AS A LETTER-WRITER In 1973, Hulsker was the first to focus attention on ‘Van Gogh as a writer’. 40 His aim was to show that, on the evidence of the prose of the letters, that Van Gogh could have been a writer if he had not become an artist, partly in the light of his own words that if he did not succeed as a painter ‘I would either go into the business or I

would write’ ().

VINCENT VAN GOGH THE LETTERSBY PERIODBY CORRESPONDENTBY PLACEWITH SKETCHESVAN GOGH AS LETTER-WRITER Edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker. The letters are the window to Van Gogh's universe. This edition, the product of 15 years of research at the Van Gogh Museum and Huygens ING, contains all Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, his artist friends Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard, and many others. Here you will find the letters in the latest edition (2009), richly annotated

THE LETTERS

001 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 29 September 1872. 001a To Hendrik Verzijl. The Hague, Saturday, 26 October 1872. 002 To Theo van

Gogh.

CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY A French mould-made paper that comes in various thicknesses and is particularly suitable for drawings. It is a mingle-coloured paper, with a special grain and watermark (see Heenk 1995, p. 27). In Van Gogh’s terminology, ‘Ingres’ stands for any kind of laid paper, but that is an incorrect widening of the meaning. CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY In addition to the 902 surviving letters there must have been at least 550 to Van Gogh and 290 from him that we no longer have. Van Gogh is known to have corresponded with the people listed below, but the letters have not survived. UPDATES - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS Updates (version June 2012) Letters. A recently discovered letter was added (letter 1a).. Letter 12, n. 7 changed to: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Britain’s oldest public gallery with a famous collection of seventeenth-century paintings. On Monday, 4 August, Van Gogh wrote his signature ‘VWvanGogh the Hague’ in the visitor’s book (Documentation Dulwich Picture Gallery). CHRONOLOGY - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS In addition to biographical information, such as dates of employment and changes of address, it also lists Vincent ’s visits to museums and exhibitions, his meetings with artists and others who played an important part in the correspondence, as well as a selection of the books he read (see the Bibliography and Van der Veen 2007, Annexe III, for an extensive list of the authors and books

PUBLICATION HISTORY

In 1898 the cousins Paul and Bruno Cassirer established an art gallery and publishing house. They parted company in 1901, and from that moment on Paul, the art dealer, was one of the driving forces behind the spread of Van Gogh’s work in Germany, while Bruno, the publisher, did the same for the letters. 37 37. THE LETTERS BY CORRESPONDENT The letters by correspondent. 001 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 29 September 1872. 002 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 13 December 1872. 003 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, mid-January 1873. 004 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 28 January 1873.

PUBLICATION HISTORY

The activities of the art lover and ‘art educationalist’ H.P. Bremmer had a major influence on the Van Gogh reception in the Netherlands. He published widely on Van Gogh, in the journals he ran, Moderne Kunstwerken (1903-1910) and Beeldende Kunst (1913-1938), and elsewhere. 52 He gave lessons and courses on modern art, frequently using Van Gogh to illustrate his ideas. CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY Sophie (Fie) Cornelia Elisabeth (Tante Fie) Carbentus-Van Bemmel (Aunt Fie) (1828-1897) wife of Arie Carbentus, brother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Anna Cornelia Carbentus-Van der Gaag (1792-1855) mother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus, grandmother of Vincent. Arie Carbentus (1826-1875) brother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. VINCENT VAN GOGH THE LETTERSBY PERIODBY CORRESPONDENTBY PLACEWITH SKETCHESVAN GOGH AS LETTER-WRITER Edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker. The letters are the window to Van Gogh's universe. This edition, the product of 15 years of research at the Van Gogh Museum and Huygens ING, contains all Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, his artist friends Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard, and many others. Here you will find the letters in the latest edition (2009), richly annotated

THE LETTERS

001 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 29 September 1872. 001a To Hendrik Verzijl. The Hague, Saturday, 26 October 1872. 002 To Theo van

Gogh.

CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY A French mould-made paper that comes in various thicknesses and is particularly suitable for drawings. It is a mingle-coloured paper, with a special grain and watermark (see Heenk 1995, p. 27). In Van Gogh’s terminology, ‘Ingres’ stands for any kind of laid paper, but that is an incorrect widening of the meaning. CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY In addition to the 902 surviving letters there must have been at least 550 to Van Gogh and 290 from him that we no longer have. Van Gogh is known to have corresponded with the people listed below, but the letters have not survived. UPDATES - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS Updates (version June 2012) Letters. A recently discovered letter was added (letter 1a).. Letter 12, n. 7 changed to: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Britain’s oldest public gallery with a famous collection of seventeenth-century paintings. On Monday, 4 August, Van Gogh wrote his signature ‘VWvanGogh the Hague’ in the visitor’s book (Documentation Dulwich Picture Gallery). CHRONOLOGY - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS In addition to biographical information, such as dates of employment and changes of address, it also lists Vincent ’s visits to museums and exhibitions, his meetings with artists and others who played an important part in the correspondence, as well as a selection of the books he read (see the Bibliography and Van der Veen 2007, Annexe III, for an extensive list of the authors and books

PUBLICATION HISTORY

In 1898 the cousins Paul and Bruno Cassirer established an art gallery and publishing house. They parted company in 1901, and from that moment on Paul, the art dealer, was one of the driving forces behind the spread of Van Gogh’s work in Germany, while Bruno, the publisher, did the same for the letters. 37 37. THE LETTERS BY CORRESPONDENT The letters by correspondent. 001 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 29 September 1872. 002 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 13 December 1872. 003 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, mid-January 1873. 004 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 28 January 1873.

PUBLICATION HISTORY

The activities of the art lover and ‘art educationalist’ H.P. Bremmer had a major influence on the Van Gogh reception in the Netherlands. He published widely on Van Gogh, in the journals he ran, Moderne Kunstwerken (1903-1910) and Beeldende Kunst (1913-1938), and elsewhere. 52 He gave lessons and courses on modern art, frequently using Van Gogh to illustrate his ideas. CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY Sophie (Fie) Cornelia Elisabeth (Tante Fie) Carbentus-Van Bemmel (Aunt Fie) (1828-1897) wife of Arie Carbentus, brother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Anna Cornelia Carbentus-Van der Gaag (1792-1855) mother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus, grandmother of Vincent. Arie Carbentus (1826-1875) brother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY Included in this edition are 25 letters that are either unfinished, crossed out, incomplete and/or were not sent which have been grouped together in this edition as ‘Related manuscripts’: a one-line note from Paul Gachet, Van Gogh’s doctor in Auvers, and 24 letters by Van

Gogh.

UPDATES - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS Updates (version June 2012) Letters. A recently discovered letter was added (letter 1a).. Letter 12, n. 7 changed to: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Britain’s oldest public gallery with a famous collection of seventeenth-century paintings. On Monday, 4 August, Van Gogh wrote his signature ‘VWvanGogh the Hague’ in the visitor’s book (Documentation Dulwich Picture Gallery).

VINCENT VAN GOGH

Now also available: The Quintessential Van Gogh The Best of his Letters. Five years after the launch of the successful six-volume publication Vincent van Gogh – The Letters, the Van Gogh Museum is collaborating with numerous international publishers to produce an anthology featuring a selection of his finest correspondence.. In addition to 265 of his letters, the publication features a

ABOUT THIS EDITION

All the surviving letters written and received by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) are contained in this edition of his correspondence. 1). Excepting only the digital form in which they are now being published, this is the continuation of a long tradition. CHRONOLOGY - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS In addition to biographical information, such as dates of employment and changes of address, it also lists Vincent ’s visits to museums and exhibitions, his meetings with artists and others who played an important part in the correspondence, as well as a selection of the books he read (see the Bibliography and Van der Veen 2007, Annexe III, for an extensive list of the authors and books

QUICK GUIDE

Quick guide. All the letters written and received by Vincent van Gogh are presented in this web edition: 902 letters and 25 'Related Manuscripts' (such as loose sheets and unsent drafts of letters). They can also be accessed by period, correspondent and place, or by selecting those containing sketches .

HELP INFORMATION

Hints. Preferred browser This site should work with any modern browser. However, it has been optimised for and tested most extensively with Firefox versions 3.0 and higher. Printing The letters are displayed in two or more columns. If you want to print all the information about a letter, click the Print button in the letter title bar. This will display letter metadata, original text VAN GOGH AS A LETTER-WRITER Another threat is posed to the letters by iron-gall ink corrosion. In the period 1880-1885, in particular, Van Gogh often used iron-gall ink, which in the course of time reacted with water vapour in the air, with the result that the paper was literally eaten away by acid. 73, The more ink that was used the stronger the reaction, which has led to the letter sketches, in particular, becoming VAN GOGH AS A LETTER-WRITER When the correspondence between the Van Gogh brothers opened on 29 September 1872 with the words ‘My dear Theo’, 10 the 19-year-old Vincent had already been working for three years in the Hague branch of the French art and print dealers Goupil & Cie under the supervision of the young and energetic H.G. Tersteeg.It can be assumed that Tersteeg was an important formative influence on Vincent VAN GOGH AS A LETTER-WRITER In 1973, Hulsker was the first to focus attention on ‘Van Gogh as a writer’. 40 His aim was to show that, on the evidence of the prose of the letters, that Van Gogh could have been a writer if he had not become an artist, partly in the light of his own words that if he did not succeed as a painter ‘I would either go into the business or I

would write’ ().

VINCENT VAN GOGH THE LETTERSBY PERIODBY CORRESPONDENTBY PLACEWITH SKETCHESVAN GOGH AS LETTER-WRITER Edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker. The letters are the window to Van Gogh's universe. This edition, the product of 15 years of research at the Van Gogh Museum and Huygens ING, contains all Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, his artist friends Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard, and many others. Here you will find the letters in the latest edition (2009), richly annotated

THE LETTERS

001 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 29 September 1872. 001a To Hendrik Verzijl. The Hague, Saturday, 26 October 1872. 002 To Theo van

Gogh.

CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY A French mould-made paper that comes in various thicknesses and is particularly suitable for drawings. It is a mingle-coloured paper, with a special grain and watermark (see Heenk 1995, p. 27). In Van Gogh’s terminology, ‘Ingres’ stands for any kind of laid paper, but that is an incorrect widening of the meaning. CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY In addition to the 902 surviving letters there must have been at least 550 to Van Gogh and 290 from him that we no longer have. Van Gogh is known to have corresponded with the people listed below, but the letters have not survived. UPDATES - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS Updates (version June 2012) Letters. A recently discovered letter was added (letter 1a).. Letter 12, n. 7 changed to: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Britain’s oldest public gallery with a famous collection of seventeenth-century paintings. On Monday, 4 August, Van Gogh wrote his signature ‘VWvanGogh the Hague’ in the visitor’s book (Documentation Dulwich Picture Gallery). CHRONOLOGY - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS In addition to biographical information, such as dates of employment and changes of address, it also lists Vincent ’s visits to museums and exhibitions, his meetings with artists and others who played an important part in the correspondence, as well as a selection of the books he read (see the Bibliography and Van der Veen 2007, Annexe III, for an extensive list of the authors and books

PUBLICATION HISTORY

In 1898 the cousins Paul and Bruno Cassirer established an art gallery and publishing house. They parted company in 1901, and from that moment on Paul, the art dealer, was one of the driving forces behind the spread of Van Gogh’s work in Germany, while Bruno, the publisher, did the same for the letters. 37 37. THE LETTERS BY CORRESPONDENT The letters by correspondent. 001 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 29 September 1872. 002 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 13 December 1872. 003 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, mid-January 1873. 004 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 28 January 1873.

PUBLICATION HISTORY

The activities of the art lover and ‘art educationalist’ H.P. Bremmer had a major influence on the Van Gogh reception in the Netherlands. He published widely on Van Gogh, in the journals he ran, Moderne Kunstwerken (1903-1910) and Beeldende Kunst (1913-1938), and elsewhere. 52 He gave lessons and courses on modern art, frequently using Van Gogh to illustrate his ideas. CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY Sophie (Fie) Cornelia Elisabeth (Tante Fie) Carbentus-Van Bemmel (Aunt Fie) (1828-1897) wife of Arie Carbentus, brother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Anna Cornelia Carbentus-Van der Gaag (1792-1855) mother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus, grandmother of Vincent. Arie Carbentus (1826-1875) brother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. VINCENT VAN GOGH THE LETTERSBY PERIODBY CORRESPONDENTBY PLACEWITH SKETCHESVAN GOGH AS LETTER-WRITER Edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker. The letters are the window to Van Gogh's universe. This edition, the product of 15 years of research at the Van Gogh Museum and Huygens ING, contains all Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, his artist friends Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard, and many others. Here you will find the letters in the latest edition (2009), richly annotated

THE LETTERS

001 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 29 September 1872. 001a To Hendrik Verzijl. The Hague, Saturday, 26 October 1872. 002 To Theo van

Gogh.

CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY A French mould-made paper that comes in various thicknesses and is particularly suitable for drawings. It is a mingle-coloured paper, with a special grain and watermark (see Heenk 1995, p. 27). In Van Gogh’s terminology, ‘Ingres’ stands for any kind of laid paper, but that is an incorrect widening of the meaning. CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY In addition to the 902 surviving letters there must have been at least 550 to Van Gogh and 290 from him that we no longer have. Van Gogh is known to have corresponded with the people listed below, but the letters have not survived. UPDATES - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS Updates (version June 2012) Letters. A recently discovered letter was added (letter 1a).. Letter 12, n. 7 changed to: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Britain’s oldest public gallery with a famous collection of seventeenth-century paintings. On Monday, 4 August, Van Gogh wrote his signature ‘VWvanGogh the Hague’ in the visitor’s book (Documentation Dulwich Picture Gallery). CHRONOLOGY - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS In addition to biographical information, such as dates of employment and changes of address, it also lists Vincent ’s visits to museums and exhibitions, his meetings with artists and others who played an important part in the correspondence, as well as a selection of the books he read (see the Bibliography and Van der Veen 2007, Annexe III, for an extensive list of the authors and books

PUBLICATION HISTORY

In 1898 the cousins Paul and Bruno Cassirer established an art gallery and publishing house. They parted company in 1901, and from that moment on Paul, the art dealer, was one of the driving forces behind the spread of Van Gogh’s work in Germany, while Bruno, the publisher, did the same for the letters. 37 37. THE LETTERS BY CORRESPONDENT The letters by correspondent. 001 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 29 September 1872. 002 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 13 December 1872. 003 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, mid-January 1873. 004 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 28 January 1873.

PUBLICATION HISTORY

The activities of the art lover and ‘art educationalist’ H.P. Bremmer had a major influence on the Van Gogh reception in the Netherlands. He published widely on Van Gogh, in the journals he ran, Moderne Kunstwerken (1903-1910) and Beeldende Kunst (1913-1938), and elsewhere. 52 He gave lessons and courses on modern art, frequently using Van Gogh to illustrate his ideas. CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY Sophie (Fie) Cornelia Elisabeth (Tante Fie) Carbentus-Van Bemmel (Aunt Fie) (1828-1897) wife of Arie Carbentus, brother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Anna Cornelia Carbentus-Van der Gaag (1792-1855) mother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus, grandmother of Vincent. Arie Carbentus (1826-1875) brother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY Included in this edition are 25 letters that are either unfinished, crossed out, incomplete and/or were not sent which have been grouped together in this edition as ‘Related manuscripts’: a one-line note from Paul Gachet, Van Gogh’s doctor in Auvers, and 24 letters by Van

Gogh.

UPDATES - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS Updates (version June 2012) Letters. A recently discovered letter was added (letter 1a).. Letter 12, n. 7 changed to: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Britain’s oldest public gallery with a famous collection of seventeenth-century paintings. On Monday, 4 August, Van Gogh wrote his signature ‘VWvanGogh the Hague’ in the visitor’s book (Documentation Dulwich Picture Gallery).

VINCENT VAN GOGH

Now also available: The Quintessential Van Gogh The Best of his Letters. Five years after the launch of the successful six-volume publication Vincent van Gogh – The Letters, the Van Gogh Museum is collaborating with numerous international publishers to produce an anthology featuring a selection of his finest correspondence.. In addition to 265 of his letters, the publication features a

ABOUT THIS EDITION

All the surviving letters written and received by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) are contained in this edition of his correspondence. 1). Excepting only the digital form in which they are now being published, this is the continuation of a long tradition. CHRONOLOGY - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS In addition to biographical information, such as dates of employment and changes of address, it also lists Vincent ’s visits to museums and exhibitions, his meetings with artists and others who played an important part in the correspondence, as well as a selection of the books he read (see the Bibliography and Van der Veen 2007, Annexe III, for an extensive list of the authors and books

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Quick guide. All the letters written and received by Vincent van Gogh are presented in this web edition: 902 letters and 25 'Related Manuscripts' (such as loose sheets and unsent drafts of letters). They can also be accessed by period, correspondent and place, or by selecting those containing sketches .

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Hints. Preferred browser This site should work with any modern browser. However, it has been optimised for and tested most extensively with Firefox versions 3.0 and higher. Printing The letters are displayed in two or more columns. If you want to print all the information about a letter, click the Print button in the letter title bar. This will display letter metadata, original text VAN GOGH AS A LETTER-WRITER Another threat is posed to the letters by iron-gall ink corrosion. In the period 1880-1885, in particular, Van Gogh often used iron-gall ink, which in the course of time reacted with water vapour in the air, with the result that the paper was literally eaten away by acid. 73, The more ink that was used the stronger the reaction, which has led to the letter sketches, in particular, becoming VAN GOGH AS A LETTER-WRITER When the correspondence between the Van Gogh brothers opened on 29 September 1872 with the words ‘My dear Theo’, 10 the 19-year-old Vincent had already been working for three years in the Hague branch of the French art and print dealers Goupil & Cie under the supervision of the young and energetic H.G. Tersteeg.It can be assumed that Tersteeg was an important formative influence on Vincent VAN GOGH AS A LETTER-WRITER In 1973, Hulsker was the first to focus attention on ‘Van Gogh as a writer’. 40 His aim was to show that, on the evidence of the prose of the letters, that Van Gogh could have been a writer if he had not become an artist, partly in the light of his own words that if he did not succeed as a painter ‘I would either go into the business or I

would write’ ().

VINCENT VAN GOGH THE LETTERSBY PERIODBY CORRESPONDENTBY PLACEWITH SKETCHESVAN GOGH AS LETTER-WRITER Edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker. The letters are the window to Van Gogh's universe. This edition, the product of 15 years of research at the Van Gogh Museum and Huygens ING, contains all Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, his artist friends Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard, and many others. Here you will find the letters in the latest edition (2009), richly annotated

VINCENT VAN GOGH

Now also available: The Quintessential Van Gogh The Best of his Letters. Five years after the launch of the successful six-volume publication Vincent van Gogh – The Letters, the Van Gogh Museum is collaborating with numerous international publishers to produce an anthology featuring a selection of his finest correspondence.. In addition to 265 of his letters, the publication features a CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY A French mould-made paper that comes in various thicknesses and is particularly suitable for drawings. It is a mingle-coloured paper, with a special grain and watermark (see Heenk 1995, p. 27). In Van Gogh’s terminology, ‘Ingres’ stands for any kind of laid paper, but that is an incorrect widening of the meaning. THE LETTERS BY PERIOD The Hague, Tuesday, 18 or Wednesday, 19 April 1882. 219 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 21 April 1882. 220 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 23 April 1882. 221 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 26 April 1882. 222 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 1 May 1882.

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Quick guide. All the letters written and received by Vincent van Gogh are presented in this web edition: 902 letters and 25 'Related Manuscripts' (such as loose sheets and unsent drafts of letters). They can also be accessed by period, correspondent and place, or by selecting those containing sketches . UPDATES - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERSCAFE VAN GOGH LONDONVAN GOGH CAFE ARLESVAN GOGH CAFE PUZZLEVAN GOGH CAFE TERRACEVAN GOGH YELLOW CAFE Updates (version June 2012) Letters. A recently discovered letter was added (letter 1a).. Letter 12, n. 7 changed to: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Britain’s oldest public gallery with a famous collection of seventeenth-century paintings. On Monday, 4 August, Van Gogh wrote his signature ‘VWvanGogh the Hague’ in the visitor’s book (Documentation Dulwich Picture Gallery).

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Period. 1. The Hague, letters 1 - 8 29 September 1872 - 9 May 1873; 2. London, letters 9 - 33 13 June 1873 - 8 May 1875; 3. Paris (and Etten), letters 34 - 74 31 May 1875 - 4 April 1876

PUBLICATION HISTORY

The activities of the art lover and ‘art educationalist’ H.P. Bremmer had a major influence on the Van Gogh reception in the Netherlands. He published widely on Van Gogh, in the journals he ran, Moderne Kunstwerken (1903-1910) and Beeldende Kunst (1913-1938), and elsewhere. 52 He gave lessons and courses on modern art, frequently using Van Gogh to illustrate his ideas. CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY Sophie (Fie) Cornelia Elisabeth (Tante Fie) Carbentus-Van Bemmel (Aunt Fie) (1828-1897) wife of Arie Carbentus, brother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Anna Cornelia Carbentus-Van der Gaag (1792-1855) mother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus, grandmother of Vincent. Arie Carbentus (1826-1875) brother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus.

PUBLICATION HISTORY

The 1923-1924 reprint of Brieven aan zijn broeder was sold out in November 1941. De Wereldbibliotheek had wanted to print a new impression then, but the war made it impossible. Although the publishers were given permission in 1944 for a reprint in an edition of 1,000 copies, they did not pursue it. 110 After the war V.W. van Gogh conceived of a much more ambitious edition than the reprint VINCENT VAN GOGH THE LETTERSBY PERIODBY CORRESPONDENTBY PLACEWITH SKETCHESVAN GOGH AS LETTER-WRITER Edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker. The letters are the window to Van Gogh's universe. This edition, the product of 15 years of research at the Van Gogh Museum and Huygens ING, contains all Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, his artist friends Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard, and many others. Here you will find the letters in the latest edition (2009), richly annotated

VINCENT VAN GOGH

Now also available: The Quintessential Van Gogh The Best of his Letters. Five years after the launch of the successful six-volume publication Vincent van Gogh – The Letters, the Van Gogh Museum is collaborating with numerous international publishers to produce an anthology featuring a selection of his finest correspondence.. In addition to 265 of his letters, the publication features a CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY A French mould-made paper that comes in various thicknesses and is particularly suitable for drawings. It is a mingle-coloured paper, with a special grain and watermark (see Heenk 1995, p. 27). In Van Gogh’s terminology, ‘Ingres’ stands for any kind of laid paper, but that is an incorrect widening of the meaning. THE LETTERS BY PERIOD The Hague, Tuesday, 18 or Wednesday, 19 April 1882. 219 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 21 April 1882. 220 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 23 April 1882. 221 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 26 April 1882. 222 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 1 May 1882.

QUICK GUIDE

Quick guide. All the letters written and received by Vincent van Gogh are presented in this web edition: 902 letters and 25 'Related Manuscripts' (such as loose sheets and unsent drafts of letters). They can also be accessed by period, correspondent and place, or by selecting those containing sketches . UPDATES - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERSCAFE VAN GOGH LONDONVAN GOGH CAFE ARLESVAN GOGH CAFE PUZZLEVAN GOGH CAFE TERRACEVAN GOGH YELLOW CAFE Updates (version June 2012) Letters. A recently discovered letter was added (letter 1a).. Letter 12, n. 7 changed to: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Britain’s oldest public gallery with a famous collection of seventeenth-century paintings. On Monday, 4 August, Van Gogh wrote his signature ‘VWvanGogh the Hague’ in the visitor’s book (Documentation Dulwich Picture Gallery).

ADVANCED SEARCH

Period. 1. The Hague, letters 1 - 8 29 September 1872 - 9 May 1873; 2. London, letters 9 - 33 13 June 1873 - 8 May 1875; 3. Paris (and Etten), letters 34 - 74 31 May 1875 - 4 April 1876

PUBLICATION HISTORY

The activities of the art lover and ‘art educationalist’ H.P. Bremmer had a major influence on the Van Gogh reception in the Netherlands. He published widely on Van Gogh, in the journals he ran, Moderne Kunstwerken (1903-1910) and Beeldende Kunst (1913-1938), and elsewhere. 52 He gave lessons and courses on modern art, frequently using Van Gogh to illustrate his ideas. CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY Sophie (Fie) Cornelia Elisabeth (Tante Fie) Carbentus-Van Bemmel (Aunt Fie) (1828-1897) wife of Arie Carbentus, brother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Anna Cornelia Carbentus-Van der Gaag (1792-1855) mother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus, grandmother of Vincent. Arie Carbentus (1826-1875) brother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus.

PUBLICATION HISTORY

The 1923-1924 reprint of Brieven aan zijn broeder was sold out in November 1941. De Wereldbibliotheek had wanted to print a new impression then, but the war made it impossible. Although the publishers were given permission in 1944 for a reprint in an edition of 1,000 copies, they did not pursue it. 110 After the war V.W. van Gogh conceived of a much more ambitious edition than the reprint CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY Included in this edition are 25 letters that are either unfinished, crossed out, incomplete and/or were not sent which have been grouped together in this edition as ‘Related manuscripts’: a one-line note from Paul Gachet, Van Gogh’s doctor in Auvers, and 24 letters by Van

Gogh.

THE LETTERS WITH SKETCHES 024 To Betsy Tersteeg. Helvoirt, Tuesday, 7 July 1874. 032 To Theo van Gogh. London, between Tuesday, 13 and Sunday, 18 April 1875. 039 To

Theo van Gogh.

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Period. 1. The Hague, letters 1 - 8 29 September 1872 - 9 May 1873; 2. London, letters 9 - 33 13 June 1873 - 8 May 1875; 3. Paris (and Etten), letters 34 - 74 31 May 1875 - 4 April 1876

PUBLICATION HISTORY

The present edition is the latest in a long line of publications of Van Gogh’s letters. Contrary to a widely-held belief, this history did not begin with the publication of the first major edition of the letters, the 1914 Vincent van Gogh.Brieven aan zijn broeder edited by Jo van Gogh-Bonger, since brief quotations from them had appeared in the catalogue to the Van Gogh exhibition in the VAN GOGH AS A LETTER-WRITER W.H. Auden (ed.), Van Gogh, a self-portrait. Letters revealing his life as a painter. New York and Greenwich 1961, p. . Jan Hulsker, for decades an authority on Van Gogh’s correspondence, unreservedly placed the letters on the level of world literature: ‘Vincent was able to express himself splendidly, and it is this remarkable writing

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Hints. Preferred browser This site should work with any modern browser. However, it has been optimised for and tested most extensively with Firefox versions 3.0 and higher. Printing The letters are displayed in two or more columns. If you want to print all the information about a letter, click the Print button in the letter title bar. This will display letter metadata, original text CHRONOLOGY - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS In addition to biographical information, such as dates of employment and changes of address, it also lists Vincent ’s visits to museums and exhibitions, his meetings with artists and others who played an important part in the correspondence, as well as a selection of the books he read (see the Bibliography and Van der Veen 2007, Annexe III, for an extensive list of the authors and books THE LETTERS BY CORRESPONDENT The letters by correspondent. 001 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 29 September 1872. 002 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 13 December 1872. 003 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, mid-January 1873. 004 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 28 January 1873.

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The purpose of this section is to document the various people with whom Van Gogh corresponded in the different periods of his life, discover how he got to know them, and see how the contact and correspondence progressed. VINCENT VAN GOGH THE LETTERSBY PERIODBY CORRESPONDENTBY PLACEWITH SKETCHESVAN GOGH AS LETTER-WRITER Edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker. The letters are the window to Van Gogh's universe. This edition, the product of 15 years of research at the Van Gogh Museum and Huygens ING, contains all Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, his artist friends Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard, and many others. Here you will find the letters in the latest edition (2009), richly annotated

VINCENT VAN GOGH

Now also available: The Quintessential Van Gogh The Best of his Letters. Five years after the launch of the successful six-volume publication Vincent van Gogh – The Letters, the Van Gogh Museum is collaborating with numerous international publishers to produce an anthology featuring a selection of his finest correspondence.. In addition to 265 of his letters, the publication features a CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY A French mould-made paper that comes in various thicknesses and is particularly suitable for drawings. It is a mingle-coloured paper, with a special grain and watermark (see Heenk 1995, p. 27). In Van Gogh’s terminology, ‘Ingres’ stands for any kind of laid paper, but that is an incorrect widening of the meaning. THE LETTERS BY PERIOD The Hague, Tuesday, 18 or Wednesday, 19 April 1882. 219 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 21 April 1882. 220 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 23 April 1882. 221 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 26 April 1882. 222 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 1 May 1882.

QUICK GUIDE

Quick guide. All the letters written and received by Vincent van Gogh are presented in this web edition: 902 letters and 25 'Related Manuscripts' (such as loose sheets and unsent drafts of letters). They can also be accessed by period, correspondent and place, or by selecting those containing sketches . UPDATES - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERSCAFE VAN GOGH LONDONVAN GOGH CAFE ARLESVAN GOGH CAFE PUZZLEVAN GOGH CAFE TERRACEVAN GOGH YELLOW CAFE Updates (version June 2012) Letters. A recently discovered letter was added (letter 1a).. Letter 12, n. 7 changed to: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Britain’s oldest public gallery with a famous collection of seventeenth-century paintings. On Monday, 4 August, Van Gogh wrote his signature ‘VWvanGogh the Hague’ in the visitor’s book (Documentation Dulwich Picture Gallery).

ADVANCED SEARCH

Period. 1. The Hague, letters 1 - 8 29 September 1872 - 9 May 1873; 2. London, letters 9 - 33 13 June 1873 - 8 May 1875; 3. Paris (and Etten), letters 34 - 74 31 May 1875 - 4 April 1876

PUBLICATION HISTORY

The activities of the art lover and ‘art educationalist’ H.P. Bremmer had a major influence on the Van Gogh reception in the Netherlands. He published widely on Van Gogh, in the journals he ran, Moderne Kunstwerken (1903-1910) and Beeldende Kunst (1913-1938), and elsewhere. 52 He gave lessons and courses on modern art, frequently using Van Gogh to illustrate his ideas. CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY Sophie (Fie) Cornelia Elisabeth (Tante Fie) Carbentus-Van Bemmel (Aunt Fie) (1828-1897) wife of Arie Carbentus, brother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Anna Cornelia Carbentus-Van der Gaag (1792-1855) mother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus, grandmother of Vincent. Arie Carbentus (1826-1875) brother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus.

PUBLICATION HISTORY

The 1923-1924 reprint of Brieven aan zijn broeder was sold out in November 1941. De Wereldbibliotheek had wanted to print a new impression then, but the war made it impossible. Although the publishers were given permission in 1944 for a reprint in an edition of 1,000 copies, they did not pursue it. 110 After the war V.W. van Gogh conceived of a much more ambitious edition than the reprint VINCENT VAN GOGH THE LETTERSBY PERIODBY CORRESPONDENTBY PLACEWITH SKETCHESVAN GOGH AS LETTER-WRITER Edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker. The letters are the window to Van Gogh's universe. This edition, the product of 15 years of research at the Van Gogh Museum and Huygens ING, contains all Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, his artist friends Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard, and many others. Here you will find the letters in the latest edition (2009), richly annotated

VINCENT VAN GOGH

Now also available: The Quintessential Van Gogh The Best of his Letters. Five years after the launch of the successful six-volume publication Vincent van Gogh – The Letters, the Van Gogh Museum is collaborating with numerous international publishers to produce an anthology featuring a selection of his finest correspondence.. In addition to 265 of his letters, the publication features a CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY A French mould-made paper that comes in various thicknesses and is particularly suitable for drawings. It is a mingle-coloured paper, with a special grain and watermark (see Heenk 1995, p. 27). In Van Gogh’s terminology, ‘Ingres’ stands for any kind of laid paper, but that is an incorrect widening of the meaning. THE LETTERS BY PERIOD The Hague, Tuesday, 18 or Wednesday, 19 April 1882. 219 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 21 April 1882. 220 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 23 April 1882. 221 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 26 April 1882. 222 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 1 May 1882.

QUICK GUIDE

Quick guide. All the letters written and received by Vincent van Gogh are presented in this web edition: 902 letters and 25 'Related Manuscripts' (such as loose sheets and unsent drafts of letters). They can also be accessed by period, correspondent and place, or by selecting those containing sketches . UPDATES - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERSCAFE VAN GOGH LONDONVAN GOGH CAFE ARLESVAN GOGH CAFE PUZZLEVAN GOGH CAFE TERRACEVAN GOGH YELLOW CAFE Updates (version June 2012) Letters. A recently discovered letter was added (letter 1a).. Letter 12, n. 7 changed to: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Britain’s oldest public gallery with a famous collection of seventeenth-century paintings. On Monday, 4 August, Van Gogh wrote his signature ‘VWvanGogh the Hague’ in the visitor’s book (Documentation Dulwich Picture Gallery).

ADVANCED SEARCH

Period. 1. The Hague, letters 1 - 8 29 September 1872 - 9 May 1873; 2. London, letters 9 - 33 13 June 1873 - 8 May 1875; 3. Paris (and Etten), letters 34 - 74 31 May 1875 - 4 April 1876

PUBLICATION HISTORY

The activities of the art lover and ‘art educationalist’ H.P. Bremmer had a major influence on the Van Gogh reception in the Netherlands. He published widely on Van Gogh, in the journals he ran, Moderne Kunstwerken (1903-1910) and Beeldende Kunst (1913-1938), and elsewhere. 52 He gave lessons and courses on modern art, frequently using Van Gogh to illustrate his ideas. CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY Sophie (Fie) Cornelia Elisabeth (Tante Fie) Carbentus-Van Bemmel (Aunt Fie) (1828-1897) wife of Arie Carbentus, brother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Anna Cornelia Carbentus-Van der Gaag (1792-1855) mother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus, grandmother of Vincent. Arie Carbentus (1826-1875) brother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus.

PUBLICATION HISTORY

The 1923-1924 reprint of Brieven aan zijn broeder was sold out in November 1941. De Wereldbibliotheek had wanted to print a new impression then, but the war made it impossible. Although the publishers were given permission in 1944 for a reprint in an edition of 1,000 copies, they did not pursue it. 110 After the war V.W. van Gogh conceived of a much more ambitious edition than the reprint CONCORDANCE, LISTS, BIBLIOGRAPHY Included in this edition are 25 letters that are either unfinished, crossed out, incomplete and/or were not sent which have been grouped together in this edition as ‘Related manuscripts’: a one-line note from Paul Gachet, Van Gogh’s doctor in Auvers, and 24 letters by Van

Gogh.

THE LETTERS WITH SKETCHES 024 To Betsy Tersteeg. Helvoirt, Tuesday, 7 July 1874. 032 To Theo van Gogh. London, between Tuesday, 13 and Sunday, 18 April 1875. 039 To

Theo van Gogh.

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Period. 1. The Hague, letters 1 - 8 29 September 1872 - 9 May 1873; 2. London, letters 9 - 33 13 June 1873 - 8 May 1875; 3. Paris (and Etten), letters 34 - 74 31 May 1875 - 4 April 1876

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The present edition is the latest in a long line of publications of Van Gogh’s letters. Contrary to a widely-held belief, this history did not begin with the publication of the first major edition of the letters, the 1914 Vincent van Gogh.Brieven aan zijn broeder edited by Jo van Gogh-Bonger, since brief quotations from them had appeared in the catalogue to the Van Gogh exhibition in the VAN GOGH AS A LETTER-WRITER W.H. Auden (ed.), Van Gogh, a self-portrait. Letters revealing his life as a painter. New York and Greenwich 1961, p. . Jan Hulsker, for decades an authority on Van Gogh’s correspondence, unreservedly placed the letters on the level of world literature: ‘Vincent was able to express himself splendidly, and it is this remarkable writing

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Hints. Preferred browser This site should work with any modern browser. However, it has been optimised for and tested most extensively with Firefox versions 3.0 and higher. Printing The letters are displayed in two or more columns. If you want to print all the information about a letter, click the Print button in the letter title bar. This will display letter metadata, original text CHRONOLOGY - VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS In addition to biographical information, such as dates of employment and changes of address, it also lists Vincent ’s visits to museums and exhibitions, his meetings with artists and others who played an important part in the correspondence, as well as a selection of the books he read (see the Bibliography and Van der Veen 2007, Annexe III, for an extensive list of the authors and books THE LETTERS BY CORRESPONDENT The letters by correspondent. 001 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 29 September 1872. 002 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 13 December 1872. 003 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, mid-January 1873. 004 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 28 January 1873.

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The purpose of this section is to document the various people with whom Van Gogh corresponded in the different periods of his life, discover how he got to know them, and see how the contact and correspondence progressed. Version: January 2020 Edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker THE LETTERS ARE THE WINDOW TO VAN GOGH'S UNIVERSE. THIS EDITION, THE PRODUCT OF 15 YEARS OF RESEARCH AT THE VAN GOGH MUSEUM AND HUYGENS ING, CONTAINS ALL VAN GOGH'S LETTERS TO HIS BROTHER

THEO , HIS

ARTIST FRIENDS PAUL GAUGUIN

AND EMILE

BERNARD , AND

MANY OTHERS .

HERE YOU WILL FIND THE LETTERS IN THE LATEST EDITION (2009), RICHLY ANNOTATED AND ILLUSTRATED, WITH NEW TRANSCRIPTIONS AND AUTHORIZED ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS.

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