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Coordinates: 52°42′57″N 6°50′59″E

Van Gogh House (Drenthe)

Van Gogh House is a cultural site in Nieuw-Amsterdam, in
the province of Drenthe in the Netherlands. The painter
Van Gogh House
Vincent van Gogh stayed here for two months in 1883; the Van Gogh Huis
house is now a museum.

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History
Van Gogh in Drenthe
The house
References The house in 2019

History

Van Gogh in Drenthe

Vincent van Gogh lived in Drenthe for three months from

September 1883. He arrived in Hoogeveen, from The Hague,
by train on 11 September, and lived in a guest house there for
about two weeks.[1][2] Wikimedia | © OpenStreetMap

General information
He travelled by canal boat to Nieuw-Amsterdam, and lodged
Address Van Goghstraat 1

in a room in this house from 2 October. He explored the area,

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and he drew and painted. He wrote many letters to his brother
Theo in Paris.[1][2] Veenoord/Nieuw
Amsterdam
On 4 December he returned to Hoogeveen, and from there Country Netherlands
travelled by train to Nuenen, his parents' home.[1]
Coordinates 52°42′57″N 6°50′59″E
Website
The house https://www.vangogh-drenthe.nl/en/

The house was built in 1870 by J. A. Willinge Gratama, a

lawyer in Assen. In 1876 he sold it to Hendrik Scholte: he was van Gogh's host during the painter's
stay in Nieuw-Amsterdam. In 1904 Scholte sold the house to his son-in-law Andries Mol, and others
later owned the building.[3]

In 1997 the Stichting Van Gogh & Drenthe (Van Gogh & Drenthe Foundation) began to plan its
restoration, and the Van Gogh House was opened as a museum in March 2003. The room once
occupied by van Gogh is shown with furniture and his painting equipment, as it would have been
during his stay.[3]

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