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that led them to the concert because you only have time but there's no amount of time i love. i love many peng to kids to search is ongoing bongo morning monkey said john. but as everybody loves to bon cole bongo is my favorite too so i want to visit his place i want to see where he lives and really he paint. and they search for him in the fields of france. and exhibitions worldwide vincent has a huge digital image. some flounce financial impact. so i think it's something that every artist tries to consolations here to 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. over there saw was a village northwest of paris then go who came here in may 1819 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 vanguard in over a village which artists and more name also visited. tourism and i come here every week to clean up

a bit 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 a here's a statuette of a person holding a guitar. 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 their father got it keep it on video it won't go all. this is the all bears are a small hotel where vang golf lived and worked you know where small was in 1905 dominic sharlee ensign's a belgian entrepreneur boarded and founded the institute van gogh to preserve the artist's memory. he leased out the bar where van gogh once sat it's now

a restaurant. vang gold's attic room is where he died in july 890. do get to go i have 2 different types of visitors. there are the funky 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 5 god so they're not the man who cut off one of his ears associated with a prostitute drank a lot and killed himself don't know if it was he to really 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 lessons 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 for the wall is i will work it out for so many myths and misunderstandings have grown up around found god that you can hardly see the historical reality that's another story could you chris kind of liberal val to vend a veiny scientific advisor at the vanguard institute and an internationally recognized

expert on the life and work of the artist. vandeven wrote his doctoral thesis on bangles 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. was an art dealer before he became an artist. vincent and his brother theo worked for some of the top dealers 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. the brothers' intellectual

environment was shaped by those books their lives were very very middle class and. the books at their own were beautifully made with gilt edges and leather covers. and so they were not for and undereducated as is so often claimed all. on the contrary they were very cultured and sophisticated people who really community. 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 belief. because with a load of pure professional. he was always talking about making money. and you have to remember that he was a dutch calvinist you're someone who grew up in that tradition in which social function plays a major role. really. so that was his motivation artists

have to be. really compensated for their work i do keep he paid a lot of attention to the business side of things. they speak it's hard to get people to understand that. he's usually for trade as an unselfish hero who sacrificed himself for his art it was. created paintings because he believed that they had economic value. like an art dealer. only on act then it was not a case of art for art's sake if you go when i speak on this topic at conferences also a lot of people reject this field was because you're wrong it's like they have this image of a selfless kind. of a small and also on the. margin

the who did it that's all it is i believe that vincent entail find god created a company incorporate the funk often funk corporation so to speak. i know of no other company that was founded in 880 and is still so successful today. it's very profitable and a lot of people share and those profits follow up if it's. 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. of bengal for multimedia display is located in an old line stone quarry.

the artist's life as expressed in his paintings. the images on corrie. 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 rigidity 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 what was vying really like it's time to check the facts to do that we've come to the shtetl museum in

frankfurt a mine. us and yet. i find his paintings and drawings absolutely fascinating but i'm less interested in the myths that have grown up around the guns and newton but 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 it is a miss and if not so when i don't just die i got a dog in oslo. it is in the you know in a 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 of the 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 sized in one of the non looked down if you will the figure may seem modern to us today but at the time and goss contemporaries complained that he got the proportions all wrong the imma be done in it and one of the nuns in the here son i'm also in contrast isn't enough to compare that work from 885 to this one to 895 you can see that his style is already changing and not as a vague fundies a. policy hasn't figures to portraits cost money and joy doing portraits of modern people down and mention 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. depicts 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 and hostile act as are in a melancholic pose with an atmosphere of genius and madness in the background. 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 1911 the portrait of dr ghosh a 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 1900 someone from japan paid $82000000.00 for the painting it's not known who owns it now. aleksandar eileen 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 amsterdam 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 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 no questions coming up so in the case of the sunflowers. there was an extensive research project. which really focused very much on his material is a mistake makes older paintings freely and 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 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 it was very methodical in his way of working and that's also confirmed by all the research that we've done into his is technically and his materials 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 to. be sweetly 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 a as a subject it's of course not he's of course not the 1st one but it but he's now there 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 his picture of the church a new name 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 1982 he sold a few drawings in the hague. van gough's early works often portrayed the lives of farmers. as. this is the potato eaters from 1885 his 1st large work in oil. vincent road to theo that this painting shows people who worked with their hands and earned their food on

a slave he noted that this life was quite different from then as that of the educated middle class. was fascinated by far more. but he knew that society always changes with you its arms started to disappear it's not it and he knew well that there was more and more and just realisation of what is it is. 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 what and he said he's like these people and wanted to live a life that was similar to that of a farmers and laborers and coal miners is a myth and by one button are bought on the 10 core law by a time when i had signed saying tot he often gave away his clothes or went around looking shabby when hot dogs and i'm tired he believed that this gave him credibility and a sense of self-sacrifice that was inspired by jesus christ steps off gob and of course then go had some very wealthy relatives right or vi didn't with financial

support might be don't want us to it's not his apparent poverty gave them street cred high as we say today hard to street credibility oh my dear the swat. 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 an art dealer. in 1886 a vincent moved to paris to live with theo the french capital was the center of the european art world. vincent met a number of impressionist at the paint supply shop owned by dealer pair tom de. bangkok changed his style again to capture the light of paris

he placed thin layers of paint on top of each other dull and flat and transparent and he put dots of complementary colors next to each other instead of mixing them. the view from his brother's apartment theo was never able to sell this piece it was too much competition from the impressionists. are in provence southern france. to get a van gogh spent 15 months here painting his now masterpieces. there are references to him just about everywhere you go in the city.

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 historian. why bang god's works are still so relevant today one goal is just dance interest 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 enters a plea to trends that became common in the 20th century and into a listers either strains today in advertising and on the internet sat straight to the message. that he 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 . he used it to dimensional style and that was also he element consistent. at that time vanga was inspired by japanese wood block prints which were popular among many of his contemporaries he 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 airplanes prince you do not have to focus on much from the avenues prince but the magic word is primitivism to certain extent and being decorative so it had to be flat flat means that there is no space beck definit and well those prints are fret so he 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 vang goss work like this painting called armand blossom. it was painted in the south of france. vincent wrote to theo at the time that he felt like he was in japan and my.

i think. a generation or artists 1st break away from the western tradition he is deeply influenced by japanese prints and the japanese princess also associates miss trends and things so that means you look at the subject and the way it painted as not exactly the subject. but is a separate subject to your mind on your heart so you remember right is it your restructure to boosie your mind i mean your heart so that's a big difference from the western tradition. for chinese pending over one goal we can see as

a similarities train you say to them brush paintings it's a lot more strokes and the color as not had really identified this reality is really that color in our mind the heart of it prefer which is a very typical tranny is statics pender is not. a receiver of the information that chance of seeing from nations into your own language. vango 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 good. he painted by a quirk. after the 2 parted in disharmony bangor 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. this year but today he was obsessed with the color value of the census and on this and on the land he was supposed to have moved to other or southern france in any case because one of his role models besides me a daughter from one to chile had worked there viewing the time he almost always painted sunrises and sunsets. i'm going to tell you what and iron and steel and market shelley developed

a unique style that involved a technique called impossible stalls and if the application of paint in fake layers or strokes is this one 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 and god then god got his 1st positive art reviewers by and he wrote to the author i bear of the year that he neglected to mention the influence of more to cheli is i don't i that or you once had done you mind for a bit of money each headed home if i guess. the critics were finally taking notice but a few months later vincent van gogh committed suicide and so the legend was born. in january $8091.00 vincent's brother died of syphilis the entire vango estate including paintings drawings and letters passed to theo's widow she would make

vincent vanguard an international superstar. your honner 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 haven't published excerpts of these letters in dutch magazines and aren't catalogues she recognized the potential that lay in the combination of life and work. a paris gallery owner called valar showed some of van goss works in 895 and there was a full exhibition in 1901 but it didn't attract much attention amongst collectors. that would change in 1905 in amsterdam steadily community in your honner vanguard organized an exhibition of bang goss complete works and it had

a huge impact. at this diddle museum in frankfurt alexander i linger and his team have been studying how the angle was so successfully marketed particularly in germany. one can up 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 and 114 before world war one there were dozens of exhibitions that featured his works with tile and we've seen that at about the same time more and more german museums and private collectors were buying bengazi feel a daughter provides the impetus from got a coffin as a dumb act when our national guard to get so there was a big increase in germany but not in france in the netherlands except for the big exhibition in amsterdam in the one opposite damo but museums and collectors there were not buying as well as some not often got i'm just playing what you mostly

enjoy my garnish. prices for vanguard were rising accordingly an invoice from a parasite gallery shows that in $1000.00 a level the steadily museum paid a huge sum for the portrait of dr guest say. the money was paid in installments because ditto of 20000 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 leave a prize. and the legend of van gogh also helped to push prices high on. german art critic and novelist he usually is my agree did much to create that legend. michael if it's on a constant my grey felt was a central figure in making van gough legend on the one hand and aren't pretty at

a collector dealer on the other hand a novelist or writer who saw the potential invent gough's work. eat but he wrote a history of the development of modern art in 1904 them with in which a large chapter was dedicated to van gough it was a cup it look a bit much but how about if you develop the whole thing into a biography in 1010 months and in $1021.00 finally into a novel and lies ago on it would add to my agony for stylized van gough 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 vons 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 slips of artwork. you hannah of angle died in 1925 and the quiff 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 you're all right theo was married to you and of boehner and the young couple of. son and this little baby is my grandfather. and grandfather inherited from his parents a collection of 200 paintings by fits and 500 drawings and for instance letters to his brother 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 was from hanging in the. living room the element blossomed a beautiful one of the most beautiful paintings ever made dedicated by finn sent to

the birth of his little nephew it's not a family you holds the rights that were licenses it's the museum and my grandfather was the owner of this amazing credible collection but in order to afford to it it would be defied it is 3 parts after his that he had 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 effort by fence and there theo brought out of the hands of the family and transferred it to a specially established fence and franco front ation. so vango sold the paintings to the dutch state in 1962 each built the museum for the collection in 1973. today the experts at the museum and the foundation aim to maintain scientific accuracy and infuse future generations of vincent van gogh.

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 ocean golf in paris in 201-913-0000 sold 413-0000 years if not all. of. the weapon was found in 1960 in a field near over their school was where vanguard used to paint the yorkshire house sold it as the weapon with which vanguard he's 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 dog's chest and the safety catch was off. but there is no scientific proof that links the weapon directly to vanguard. the owner of the auction house says he never claimed that there was. all of the oh boy lovers out 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's that's what makes a reputable auction also we only said that's the guy that he could have killed himself wherever soon you're a victim. but before the yorks and the weapon was advertised as vang goss 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. you know. in 2016 it 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. but was somebody known at the time when we had the exhibition who sent no not quite like that is and so he was asked what do you think a freak of business or well as long as there's not a 2nd rust. a gun coming from the same ground makes a very well chance you have to look at it i believe and it when you it's smaller to some so when you bomb and up it makes it very likely but as this i mean we have to take the word from we have from from from from the landowner 960 that indeed he found it on his land and not somewhere else you kind of you don't have an idea and a proof of that he ever had it in his hand and. now. they are good as a designer why they found a gun on fire then all there and it's supposed to be the one that vanguard used to

kill himself 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 and so we expressed interest in it but i don't want us to interfere. where does legend end and where it is 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. but it's going to see more of this drawing can scarcely be considered the work of god if he was an excellent draftsman at that point. he created impressive color and light effects with pens and pencils and. this drawing

has none of that very. sloppy job 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 the drawing style is very correct or istic and it was quite clear also front because i mean it is brownish tins which we know from for instance for instance drawings have. all 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 discarded to brown with simply browning. dishonest art dealers can earn a lot of money selling vango forgeries in 1932

a burly in art broker auto vaca was convicted on charges of putting 30 of them on the market divan timers it has in some had authenticity reports from renowned vanguard experts so you can see a lot of people and a lot of money from van gough and. even his commercialization inspires tate britain london the valhalla of british art history he's very much the hero of modern art and he says shying away british artists a new way to be an artist and an artist it doesn't have to be this is a respectable that can paint in their beds you want a 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 fangirl 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 munch painted this portrait of felix auerbach in 1906 he portrayed him in a very rough very. i would say expressionistic murder with stark red color not a very defined background step towards something that can go toes of course and putting all his attention and focus on the character of our boss 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 no was also influenced by van gogh 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 ben got a self-portrait and the next big moment i think it's a great combination because you can see how similar the self portraits are that it's all heard about the big exhibition in amsterdam in 1005. and then grew a beard so that it would look like and off of the here because if you know me from god i'm so i. can send govind and you have a van gough artisans overcome their van gaal phrases relatively quickly because they don't want to be seen a successor sashed convoy and so at some point ben got receipts further and further into the background on one call him about and then him to a point that but his works open minds to color to style to the application of color

and some top. and that helps them find their own style and gives them the courage to find their own style and want in mood and i've mentioned it's offended. so isn't 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 innovators who 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 in him they may succeed in finding themselves.

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story of prejudice and propaganda. they were called the rhineland bastards born after the 1st world war. their mothers were germans living in the occupied rhineland their father's soldiers from the french colonies. least half of the german children had a hard time because they were a reminder of the german defeat. exclusion and culminated in sourced sterilization under the nazis. this documentary examines the few traces that remain of their existence. they call them the children if she. starts january 11th on g.w. .

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