The city’s Van Gogh is showing a major exhibition that brings together works by Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Much for the first time in history. The exhibition focuses on the common ground between the work of these two artists. Munch : Van Gogh features more than 100 works of art: approximately 80 paintings and 30 works on paper.
This is the very first exhibition held in the museum’s reopened exhibition wing, and includes iconic pictures from all around the world that are rarely loaned out, such as Munch’s “The Scream” and Van Gogh’s “Star Night over the Rhone”.
This unique exhibition was first displayed at Oslo’s Munch Museum. In Amsterdam the exhibition was curated by Maite van Dijk under the ægis of Dr. Axel Rüger, the German-born director of the Van Gogh Museum. Both hosted a VIP/press preview on the exhibition on 22 September 2015, a day before it was officially opened by HRH Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands and HM Queen Sonja of Norway.
A week thereafter the Royal Norwegian Ambassador to the Netherlands, HE Anniken Krutnes, hosted a diplomatic preview on Wednesday, 30 September at the Van Gogh Museum.
For more information:
Van Gogh Museum: www.vangoghmuseum.nl/
Royal Norwegian Embassy to The Netherland and Luxembourg : www.noorwegen.nl
