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Van Gogh Exhibition

01/12/2006. - 01/04/2007.
Exhibition
Museum of Fine Arts

1st December- 1st April, 2007

Museum of Fine Arts

Two years after its show ‘Monet and His Friends’, the Museum of Fine Arts is organising an exhibition on the oeuvre of the Post-Impressionist master Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), another fascinating figure in the history of art.

Works by this disturbing genius of nineteenth-century Dutch and French art will be borrowed from some of the most important museums of the world.

As a ‘prelude’ to the exhibition, we shall present masters who influenced the development of Van Gogh’s art (e.g. Wolf Huber, Rembrandt, Delacroix, Caspar David Friedrich, Jean-François Millet, and Charles Daubigny). By way of conclusion, we shall outline, showing parallels, the influence exerted by the Dutch master on Hungarian art in the early twentieth century – on the Hungarian Fauves and on the painting of such artists as Gyula Derkovics and Gyula Czimra.

In the scholarly catalogue, which will be published in Hungarian and in English, a section presenting the reception of the works will – as in the case of the Monet exhibition – be accompanied by a selection of critical analyses. And in connection with some of the pieces exhibited from his large oeuvre, interesting extracts from Van Gogh’s correspondence will also be included.

Further information:

Budapest Tourism Office

Van Gogh Exhibition