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Van Gogh Museum, art institution in Amsterdam that is devoted to the life and work of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh.
The core of the Van Gogh Museum’s collection was that of Theo van Gogh, Vincent van Gogh’s younger brother. It remained in the van Gogh family until 1962, when, with the help of the government of the Netherlands, Vincent Willem van Gogh, the artist’s nephew, donated the collection to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation. The foundation then gave the collection to the Van Gogh Museum on permanent loan. The museum augmented it with works acquired through purchase and donation. In addition to van Gogh’s work, the museum exhibits work by his contemporaries, including Paul Gauguin, Mary Cassatt, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, as well as paintings by older artists whom van Gogh admired, most notably Léon Lhermitte and Jean-François Millet.
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1973 – present
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The Van Gogh Museum opened in 1973 in a building designed by Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld, a member of the progressive art movement De Stijl in between the World Wars. In 1999 the museum opened a new exhibition wing that designed by the Japanese architect Kurokawa Kisho. Both buildings have an open design that emphasizes geometrical forms and allows much natural light into the exhibition space. The museum features a research library that is open to the public and an auditorium for public lectures and films about van Gogh.