Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam: Highlights of the Collection

The Perfect Van Gogh Museum Guide

A lavishly illustrated museum guide containing the most important highlights of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam which houses the largest collection of Vincent van Gogh's paintings, drawings, letters and prints in the world. Written in an engaging style, this short guide describes the masterpieces of the collection.

You will be able to follow Van Gogh's development by seeing all of his great works, and will also get to know his personal ambitions, his emotions, the myths and his major influence on art until today.

In this Van Gogh Museum guide you will be introduced to his masterpieces, and you will discover some of the ideas and ambitions behind his art. For the purpose of clarity, we stick to a chronological presentation, while discussing works by Van Gogh and by other artists separately.

After a brief overview of the artist's life and work, this short guide not only focuses on Van Gogh's masterworks such as the Potato Eaters, the Sunflowers, the Irises and his Bedroom in Arles, but also describes various of his less well-known paintings.

Since Vincent and his brother Theo van Gogh collected work by their contemporaries, these are also on display at the Van Gogh Museum. The book contains color illustrations of work by Seurat, Pissarro, Lautrec, Gauguin and Bernard, some predecessors such as Millet and Breton, and artists that followed in his footsteps. This will show you the context, and the impact Van Gogh had on modern art.

If you read this book before you visit the museum, you will be able to fully appreciate and understand the works on display.

Recommended before visiting the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam

The series consists of:

1: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam - Highlights of the Collection

2: The Anne Frank House Amsterdam - Anne's Secret Annex turned into Museum

3: Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam - Highlights of the Collection

4: Hermitage Amsterdam. Highlights from the Hermitage Museum St Petersburg

Set of the complete Amsterdam Museum Guides: Vols 1 - 4 Things to Do in Amsterdam: Museums

Marko Kassenaar is an art expert living in Amsterdam. Liesbeth Heenk is an art historian specialized in Van Gogh.