i know the. plans to take part in the rescheduled torch relay she's also looking forward to adding to her collection of memorabilia the tokyo games are set to open in under 200 days. you're watching d.w. news coming to you live from berlin up next our documentary on vincent but fortune get all the latest news and information around the block on our web site that's the w dot com i'm terry marshall thanks for watching. and you hear me now on yes we're going to need you and i love stance gemstone so that when you bring that man and you've never had to have surprise yourself with what is possible called really what moves. on some of the people who follow along the way maurice and critics alike joining us from arkansas stops.

them because if you believe that it's time to visit him take a look. i love many paying 2 kids to search. again bongo morning. but as everybody. told my favorite so i want to visit his place i want to see where he lives and. they search for him in the fields of france. and exhibitions worldwide vincent has a huge digital image. some flams them to.

say it is something that every artist tries to consolations here change that. vincent van gough lives on especially in people's minds because his life has become the stuff of legend. but who was he really and how did his legend grow to become an international phenomenon. where school was a village northwest of paris bangalore came here in may 8090 and though the 70 days created dozens of oil paintings on july 27 aged just 37 he shot himself and died of his wounds 2 days later. dominique shall yun sins presides over the

institute bangle in over here a village which artists and monet also visited. today so many i come here every week to clean up a bit of the dried leaves and so forth. and i find that visitors have left messages and gaps. asian people bring oranges and lemons. i want to become you know here's a statuette of a person holding a guitar. if every day people bring flowers. jewish people play stones on the grave. and here you can see ashes. cremated remains of artists who wanted to be laid to rest near find god we keep it on video we go got all. this is the old bears of a small hotel where van gough lived and worked you know where school was in 1905

dominique charlie ensign's a belgian entrepreneur boarded and founded the institute vango to preserve the artist's memory. he leased out the bar where van gogh once sat it's now a restaurant. vango house attic room is where he died in july 8090. and you do get to go i have 2 different types of visitors. there are the fun god junkies who know everything about him and his paintings he's like a hero to them did you know. that's about 10 to 15 percent of. another 10 to 15 percent have read his letters of the song. and then the rest only know the hollywood foreign god so they're not the man who cut off one of his ears associated

with prostitutes drank a lot and killed himself on our own country in $43.00 let it go it was you see. this is the so painted in 1908 lange is often portrayed as a typical artist misunderstood impoverished struggling with himself over a period of 10 years he created nearly 900 paintings and more than 1000 drawings a huge achievement he also wrote an estimated 900 letters in some of them he spoke about the meaning of life. possessed enormous creative energy but was he driven by his so-called madness by his genius. on the next question on the longer you've heard the saying you can't see the forest for the trees of all the values of one worker for so many myths and misunderstandings have grown up around found god that you can hardly see the historical reality that's another story if you do

a new christian to. vow to vanda veiny scientific advisor at the vango institute and an internationally recognized expert on the life and work of the artist. vandeven wrote his doctoral thesis on bangle literary role models and has spent years studying his correspondence. he also transcribed the artist's letters for the van gogh museum in amsterdam vandeven says that a selective reading of this correspondence and skewers the artist's image including for example his pragmatism. thank god was an art dealer before he became an artist . vincent and his brother theo worked for some of the top of their time theo provided vincent with financial support throughout his life early on vincent set high goals

for himself he often wore fine clothes he spoke several languages and read books favored by the dutch educated elite lepard ali dong as well the brothers intellectual environment was shaped by those books their lives were very very middle class so it was. the books that they own it were beautifully made with gilt edges and leather covers. and so they were not before and an educated as is so often the way. on the contrary they were very cultured and sophisticated people who could really free an idea. in many of his letters vincent talked about money but not because he was poor hard work and financial success were part of his religious beliefs. with a load of group of us from groups agenda he was always talking about making money.

and you have to remember that he was a dutch calvinist someone who grew up to have tradition in which social function plays a major role. it only you don't see here so that was his motivation artists have to be. really compensated for their work. he paid a lot of attention to the business side of things. they speak it's hard to get people to understand that because he is usually for trade as an unselfish hero who sacrificed himself for his art. if you don't let him created paintings because he believed that they had economic value. like an art dealer. only on the back then it was not a case of art for art's sake if you know when i speak on this topic at conferences also a lot of people reject this view with you because you're all it's like they have this image of a selfless. o'toole the you didn't have

a small device on the. margin book who did it. i believe that vincent entail found god created a company incorporate the funk often funk corp so to speak. i know of no other company that was founded in 880 s. and is still so successful today. it's very profitable and a lot of people share and those profits are all up which isn't. the 1st years of the corporation went badly and during their lifetime vincent and theo didn't make a lot of money from it but today the bank business is booming. this is the village of labeled a pulse in the south of france. a bangle multimedia display is located in an old

line stone quarry. the artist's life as expressed in his paintings. the images on cory. graft to a special soundtrack. he left all his mistakes behind and that makes him infinitely charming. and despite those mistakes and his personal problems he's now an enormously successful one of the world's most famous painters normal. was absolutely fearless and saw his for jodi and vulnerability as qualities so many people find that appealing ok those are very attractive human characteristics. everyone seems to have their own personal vincent but one was van gogh who really like

it's time to check the facts to do that we've come to the shtetl museum in frankfurt a mine whose fuss and yet find a model i find his paintings and drawings absolutely fascinating but i'm less interested in the myths that have grown up around a gun salute and don't tell me how. you can't evaluate his work properly if you focus too much on his personal life is a fact. i think i've retained and increased my fascination for the original this in difference in that's the one i've got a dog in oslo. and the cutoff of this work shows a woman who is planting potatoes but we don't see her face the focus is on her bulky limbs her hands and her cogs and then it's like

a big shapeless forms and also how you can see that it was difficult for them to draw the human figure. you learn to draw from textbooks. and i think it's worth noting that he had no proper academic training in art and themselves in one of the non looked the more down if you will the figure may seem modern to us today but at the time when goss contemporaries complained that he got the proportions all wrong the imma be done it can go to the norms in the here someone else in contrast isn't and compare that work from 885 to this one to 895 you can see that his style is already changing and not as a vague one he's a clue which from a policy present figures to portraits cost 1000000 joy doing portraits of modern people down and. that was a deliberate move by vango he was reacting to changes in the market. in this portrait he includes themes of self perception like something you might see these days on instagram. went off their. man got into

pics dr gushee in a typical melancholic pose like do are used for his famous engraving. but he's not referencing do a lot of work they're quite admired. by. their shows for quite a tussle in a sane asylum than hostile act as are in a melancholic cold with an atmosphere of genius and madness in the background and one title. the shtetl was the 1st public museum in germany to buy works by vanguard. 190818 years after the artist's death it acquired farmhouse in newnan and in 911 the portrait of dr gushee the museum still has the frame of the gosh a portrait but not the painting itself it was seized by the nazis in 1937 and later sold in 1990 someone from japan paid $82000000.00 for the painting it's not

known who owns it now. alexander island takes a sober approach to his study of bank of work and he succeeds in getting closer to him through drawings and prints. the van gogh museum in answer to dam which contains the world's largest collection of the artist's paintings and drawings some $2000000.00 people visit the museum every year and each of them brings with them their own personal concept of the man and his work out of the museum's experts see him. i. i i.

i think the more we know about the horse about his about his life about his work the more you realize that are that are still so many things that you don't know and there's new questions coming up so in the case of the sunflowers. there was an extensive research project. which really focused very much on his materials and his technique so the painting was really. looked at in depth with all these different techniques in the conservation studio. we've often found under drawings we even have found under drawing on painting when he is using the perspective frame to lay out his composition or to help him lay out his composition to get the perspective right and this is a device that he has sketched in a letter for hawk was very methodical in his way of working and that's also confirmed by all the research that we've done into his stick nukes and his material

as he was really planning his picture. yes and his drawings and he was often calculating even the amount of pain to study would need to you know to to paint a specific amount of canvases. did vanguard take the same calculating approach to professional success he was certainly a master of self promotion. you might say that he tried to market himself as a brand with sunflowers as a company logo. this really choosing that subject as something deadly can make his own and then later on he really says i've chosen the sunflowers and i've really been the 1st one to take the sunflower as it as it is a subject it's course not he's of course not the 1st one but it but he's now his

paintings are the most famous there in art history. and it's simply not true that bangle did not sell a single painting during his lifetime. he was born and raised in the brabant region in the netherlands. vango painted this picture of the church in newton in 1904 his father was minister here and as a young man vincent worked for a while as a protestant missionary in belgium but in 982 he sold a few drawings in the hague. van gough early works often portrayed the lives of farmers. this is the potato eaters from 1885 his 1st large work in oil.

vincent rode to theo that this painting shows people who worked with their hands and earned their food honestly he noted that this life was quite different from then is that of the educated middle class. the 1st time god was fascinated by far more. but he knew that society was changing us with you its arms started to disappear and he knew well that there was more and more and just realisation of what is least. an arm what and when he asked people to pose for him he didn't want to come across as a wealthy artist on board and watch and he said he liked these people and wanted to live a life that was similar to that of a farmer laborers and coal miners on that end by one button ah but on that end color on one had signed the clyde on fresh saying tot he often gave away his clothes or went around looking shabby one hot dog and i'm tired but he believed

that this gave him credibility and a sense of self-sacrifice that was inspired by jesus christ steps in of course then god had some very wealthy relatives hypervisor down with financial support if my we don't want us to it's not his apparent poverty gave him street cred high as we say today hard to do street credibility you might do this wat one lots and in fact his brother theo enabled him to enjoy a good standard of living he regularly sent him a lot of money every $2.00 weeks perhaps out of love but perhaps because he hopes the investment would pay off after all theo was a not dealer. in 886 a vincent moved to paris to live with theo the french capital was the center of the european world. vincent met a number of impressionists at the paint supply shop owned by dealer pair tom de.

bangor changed his style again to capture the light of paris he plays thin layers of paint on top of each other doll and flat and transparent and he put dots of complimentary colors next to each other instead of mixing them. the view from his brother's apartment theo was never able to sell this piece there was too much competition from the impressionists. are improvised southern france. if you like bankole spent 15 months here painting his now masterpieces.

there are references to him just about everywhere you go in the city. our look is also home to the van gough foundation which is dedicated to honoring the artist's work and exploring the impact that it has on contemporary art the foundation often displays bangle paintings borrowed from world class collections. we are asked swiss art historian. why vang god's works are still so relevant today one goal is this dance. it was very interesting and important for him to move away from so long art and conventional compositions. mom he wanted to create art that had an immediate visual impact that name to show and by doing that he anticipated trends that became common in the 20th century into little see those trends today in advertising and on the internet sang straight to

the message so how did that help wanted to create artistic tension. this is paint a branch of a tree that crosses the entire painting well the human figures were quite small and socially he used it to dimensional style and that was also he element consistent. at that time van gogh was inspired by japanese wood block prints which were popular among many of his contemporaries and suddenly start a very big collection of 660 prints and we know why did that because the relationship with theo was. becoming more feeble and he was afraid that c.e.o. would kick him out maybe give him less money so he thought that he should have something on the side kind of adil a ship he had in mind and he would make money in the beginning but maybe later on

so these were the kind of feelings that he had he began to copy the japanese prints in oil on canvas. so if you want to understand those deputies bins you do not have to focus on much on your knees prince but the magic word is primitivism to a certain extent and being decorative so it had to be flat flat means that there's no space practive in it and well those prints are fret so we learned from them how to do that but of course he had to learn it all by himself the formal design and structure of japanese prints soon found their way into vanguard's work like this painting called arment blossom. it was painted in the south of france. vincent wrote to theo at the time that he felt like he was in japan

my. i think. a generation or artists 1st break away from the western tradition he is deeply influenced by japanese prints and the japanese prints are also associated to restrain spending so that means you look at a subject on the way appended it's not exactly a subject. but is a separate subject to your mind on your heart so you remember right is it you are restructuring to boosie your mind i mean your heart so that's a big difference from the western tradition.

for chinese and pending over one goal we can see the similarities. then brush paintings it's a lot more strokes under the collar as navid really identified it's reality coloring in our mind the heart and if you prefer which is a very good 10 yeas statics pender is not. a receiver of the information. seen from nations into your own language. bangle painted was he felt in colors that he felt often in an abstract style he often discussed these concepts with his friend the french artist paul gold. he painted van gogh at work. after the 2 parted in disharmony

bangle cut off part of his own left ear he was committed to a psychiatric institution where he painted a portrait of himself as jesus christ. and works with radiant color like the sunflowers he had painted earlier. in. the super today he was obsessed with the colors you know well you have the sense in this and again on the night he was supposed to have moved to other southern france in any case because one of his role models besides me adored him on to cheli had worked there dealing the time he almost always painted sunrises and sunsets.

and wanted to tell you what guns i can and steal and what the chili developed a unique style that involved a technique called impossible hostiles and if the application of paint and layers are strokes as does mine it gives the work an added depth and structure and you can see how the paint really stands out with streaks and furrows on fast one big 890 then god got his 1st positive art reviewers by then and he wrote to the author i bear in mind that he neglected to mention the influence of motor cheli is idle or you once had done you mind for a bit of money to charity how do you think us and soviet. the critics were finally taking notice but a few months later vincent van gogh committed suicide and so the legend was born. in january and $891.00 vincent's brother died of syphilis the entire gang got

a state including paintings drawings and letters passed to theo's widow she would make vincent vanguard an international superstar. johana vanguard bangor immediately took matters into her own hands based in paris she used the family's connections and contacted art critics and gallery owners. she soon became successful vincent van gough letters were an important part of this process 2 years later you had a published excerpts of these letters in dutch magazines and out catalogs she recognized the potential that lay in the combination of life and work. of paris gallery owner called valar showed some of us work seen 895 and there was a full exhibition in 1901 but it didn't attract much attention amongst collectors

that would change in 905 in amsterdam steadily community in your honner vanguard bangle organized an exhibition of vang goss complete works and it had a huge impact. at this diddle museum in frankfurt alexander i ling and his team have been studying how the angle was so successfully marketed particularly in germany. one crop once not starting in 1000 or 5 and there was a huge increase in the number of vanguard exhibitions in germany wants not from fernand between 1000 or 5 in 1014 before world war one there were dozens of exhibitions of featured his works with fire and we've seen that at about the same time more and more german museums and private collectors were buying vanguard's daughter pre-bought on loan. from as a dumb act when i did so there was

a big increase in germany but not in france in the netherlands except for the big exhibition in amsterdam aluminums adama but museums and collectors there were not buying as well as some not often got i'm just playing what he was into my garnish. prices for vanguard were rising accordingly an invoice from a parasite gallery shows that in $1011.00 the steadily museum paid a huge sum for the portrait of dr gushee. the money was paid in installments it cost a total of $20000.00 francs it had changed hands 3 years before and the asking price then was only 2000 francs so that's a huge increase and must believe or want to see it on prize. and the legend of van gogh also helped to push prices higher. in german critique and novelist you lias my agree did much to create that legend.

michael davis on a constant my gray felt was a central figure in making van gough legend of dying on the one hand and aren't pretty it up a collector dealer on the other hand a novelist or writer who saw the potential invent gough's work. eat his book he wrote a history of the development of modern art in 1004 them with in which a large chapter was dedicated to van gough and the cup it will give it much but about as he developed the whole thing into a biography in 1010 months and in 1021 finally into a novel. done it to my ok for stylized vanguard as the christ of modern art as he called it a savior because the romantic artist between genius and madness it's which suddenly gained an enormous readership it was to be on bonds and i gave as van gough biography was one of the 1st bestsellers in art literature coffee line a day i asked one of the best sellers one split of artwork.

you hanna of and go haunted died in 1925 and the queen to her son vincent villain the items that she had not yet sold. your vincent villain's grandson villain serves as an advisor to the bangle foundation. so that. theo was married to join you and i'm going and the young couple of. son and this little baby is my grandfather. and grandfather inherited from his parents a collection of $200.00 paintings by fits and $500.00 drawings and for instance letters to each product and here we see in the sixty's in the sixty's we see here the living room of grandfather and i remember the element lost in the painting and

in the living room the element blossomed a beautiful one of the most beautiful paintings ever made. dedicate by for instance to the birth of his little nephew it's not a family or holds the rights that were licenses it's the museum my grandfather was the owner of this amazing credible collection but in order to avoid it it would be defied it is 3 parts after he's there with the 3 children and his dream worse to keep the collection together and to share the collection rid everybody for always so he brought the entire collection everything ever since and there are theo brought out of the hands of the family and transferred it to a specially established fence and fingo front ation. so vang gulfs sold the paintings to the dutch state in 1962 it built the museum for the collection in

1973. today the experts of the museum and the foundation aim to maintain scientific accuracy and infuse future generations for vincent van gar. the museum has 1700000 followers on instagram and about 2500000 likes on facebook bangkok's works have become part of the digital landscape. but the balancing act between scientific correctness and ever new legends is difficult. so i thought a revolver was opened off in paris in 201-913-0000 sold 413-0000 i just thought. the weapon was found in 1960 in a field near all their school was where vanguard used to paint the yorkshire house

sold it as the weapon with which vanguard is said to have killed himself. forensic tests indicate. that the gun lay in the ground for 70 years and had the same caliber as the bullet that was found in vang golf chest and the safety catch was off. but there is no scientific proof that links the weapon directly to vang gar. the owner of the auction house says he never claimed that there was. a will of the overall of his side with we said before the auction that there was never any proof that it's not like we're just saying this now after the sale so we've always been careful to leave it as a possibility because of what sets what makes a reputable watch also we only said that's the gun that he could have killed themselves so you know. but before the yorks in the weapon

was advertised as vang dos revolver that was misleading to say the least the auction house also touted the fact that the gun had been displayed at one museum and requested for exhibition by another. in 2016 that was shown in amsterdam as part of the exhibition on the verge of insanity the sheila museum in frankfurt also wanted to borrow it for an exhibition. that was somebody known at a time when we had the expiration who sent no not quite like that and so so he was asked what do you think of this and he said well as long as there's not a 2nd rusty gun coming from the same ground i mean it makes a very well charms effect and you have to look at it in that why i believe and it's when it's smaller to some so when you buy an adoption makes it very likely but does this i mean we have to take the word from the it from from from from the landowner $960.00 that indeed he found it on his mind that somewhere else you can or you don't have an

a prove of that he ever had it in his hand and. no. at the end i'm fed and all they are good as it is that why they found a gun on file when all there and it's supposed to be the one that ben got used to kill himself in the current how does he what did he really pull the trigger is it possible that it's a different weapon on one of them but suddenly this worthless object this rusty revolver became a part of the legend author and so expressed interest in it and that but i don't want us to much into see it. where does legend end and where does for all would begin. this book was published in france in 2016 it shows facsimiles of a sketchbook that vango is said to have compiled in and allegedly found by a private individual but experts have serious doubts about its authenticity. so this is. going to see more of this drawing can scarcely be considered the work of

found guard uniform he was an excellent draftsman at that point as a career. he created impressive color and light effects with pens and pencils and. this drawing has none of that in her very. sloppy job and as if to show that the artist had no discipline he. was not like that at all. his work was always very neat. the book contains a sketch of a sunflower field for instance drawing start his very crypt wristy and it was quite clear also from the colors i mean that it's brownish tins which we know from for instance since the drawings have been well faded in more or less and this was to evenly colored in so it was didn't look like it was drawn with with a black ink which was discovered to brown but simply browning. dishonest

dealers can earn a lot of money selling bangle forgeries in 1932 a burly broker auto vaca was convicted on charges of putting 30 of them on the market given time as it is i'm had authenticity reports from renowned bank experts so you can see a lot of people and a lot of money from van gough and. even his commercialisation inspires tate britain london the valhalla of british art history he's very much the hero of modern art. and he says showing in a way british artists a new way to be an artist and an artist it doesn't have to be this the same respect all that can paint in their bedroom or their front room and things like that. in 1957 british artist francis bacon portrayed vanguard as

a man with his head bowed on a path to nowhere. the paintings that thank god created during the final 2 years of his life have inspired generations his distinctive use of color has become part of the language of modern art. norwegian artist edvard painted this portrait of felix auerbach in 1006 he portrays him in a very rough very. i would say expressionistic murder with stark red color not a very defined backgrounds that's also something that go those of course. putting all his attention and focus on the character of our past and it's interesting that in his letter is not so much about this portrait but also other portraits he refers to that go. german artist and slewed big snow was also

influenced by van gaal as we see in this painting from 1908 artists turn vang dos artistic power into their program of artistic self dramatization max beckmann as vincent. here in this business from one coffin to who's there we have van gaal self-portrait and next big moment i think it's a great combination because you can see how similar the self portraits are. with beckman heard about the big exhibition in amsterdam in 1005 and then grew a beard so they would look like vanguard in the here because if you know me from god i'm so i and. the consent of on coffee artisans overcome they're going to go off raises relatively quickly because they don't want to be seen as successors convoy or not and so at some point then got receipts further and further into the background than

one got in the right and then he wanted but his works opening minds to color to style to the application of color and some top of todd want em and that helps them find their own style and gives them the courage to find their own style and want to move to mine i mentioned it's a fantasy. so is it this courage that transcends the legend is it his weaknesses or his strengths dr gushee a prescribed painting for vango as therapy and during his last 70 days you know various school was he painted another 80 pictures in a bid to save himself. and maybe that's why all these people are still searching for the real vincent. because

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