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Van Gogh in

Drenthe

  1. 11 Sep. 1883 1883
     - 5 Dec. 1883 1883

Vincent vertrok in het najaar van 1883 vanuit Den Haag naar Drenthe, waar hij drie maanden zou verblijven. Toch heeft de relatief korte periode die hij hier verbleef een onuitwisbare indruk op hem gemaakt.

Inspired by people including his friend Anthon van Rappard (1858–1892) and partly motivated by the idea that life in the country would be less costly, Vincent arrived in Hoogeveen by train from The Hague on 11 September 1883. Having said goodbye to his girlfriend, Sien and her children, he moved into a guest house run by Albertus Hartsuiker (1827–1902). After about two weeks in Hoogeveen, which he spent getting to know the area, Vincent decided to travel deeper into Drenthe. He took a canal boat southeast toward the nearby villages of Nieuw-Amsterdam and Veenoord and found accommodation in a guest house run by Hendrik Scholte (1841–1915). He explored the surrounding countryside from there, for instance taking a day trip to Zweeloo.

During this time, Vincent corresponded with his brother Theo about Theo’s job with the art dealers Goupil & Cie in Paris. Vincent wanted his brother to join him in Drenthe and work alongside him as an artist but Theo chose to stay in Paris.

Despite the briefness of Vincent’s stay in Drenthe, it was important for his development in several respects. It was a lonely time in which he had no help from or contact with other artists but Drenthe’s landscape, its inhabitants and its singularity made an indelible impression on him, which he captured in paintings, drawings and watercolours. Although Vincent wrote of being influenced by the seventeenth-century Dutch masters, the Barbizon school painters and artists such as Max Liebermann (1847–1935), Drenthe was his greatest source of inspiration during this period.

Vincent left Nieuw-Amsterdam on 4 December to return to Hoogeveen, where he would board a train for Nuenen the next day.

Locations in Drenthe

Existing, accessible

Existing, inaccessible

Disappeared

Made here

Farm houses

Farm houses

Oil on canvas on carton, 35,5 x 55,5 cm

Landscape with a stack of peat and farmhouses, 1883

Landscape with a stack of peat and farmhouses, 1883

Watercolour on paper, 41,7 x 54,1 cm

Head of a woman with dark cap, 1883

Head of a woman with dark cap, 1883

Pen and inkt on paper, 21 x 13,5 cm

Cemetery, 1883

Cemetery, 1883

Letter sketch (brief 387)

Landscape with bog-oak trunks, 1883

Landscape with bog-oak trunks, 1883

Pen an pencil on paper, 31 x 37,5 cm

Two woman on the heat, 1883

Two woman on the heat, 1883

Oil on canvas, 27,8 x 36,5 cm

Drawbridge in Nieuw-Amsterdam

Drawbridge in Nieuw-Amsterdam

Watercolour, 38,5 x 81 cm

Kerkhof

Kerkhof

Briefschets (brief 387)

Farm with stacks of peat, 1883

Farm with stacks of peat, 1883

Oil on canvas, 37,5 x 55 cm

Peat boat with two figures, 1883

Peat boat with two figures, 1883

Oil on canvas on panel, 37 x 55,5 cm

Peasant burning weeds, 1883

Peasant burning weeds, 1883

Oil on canvas, 30,5 x 39,5 cm

Landscape in Drenthe, 1883

Landscape in Drenthe, 1883

Mixed media, 31,4 x 42,1 cm

Women working in the peat (Brief 393), 1883

Women working in the peat (Brief 393), 1883

Letter sketch

Ploughman and two women, 1883

Ploughman and two women, 1883

Briefschets

Man pulling a harrow, 1883

Man pulling a harrow, 1883

Letter sketch

Shepherd with flock near the little church at Zweeloo, 1883

Shepherd with flock near the little church at Zweeloo, 1883

Mixed media, 25 x 31,5

Letter Sketch (Letter 392), 1883

Letter Sketch (Letter 392), 1883

Ploeger en bukkende vrouw & Boerderij met turfhoop, 1883

Ploeger en bukkende vrouw & Boerderij met turfhoop, 1883

Letter sketch

Stooping woman in a landscape, 1883

Stooping woman in a landscape, 1883

Letter sketch

Workman beside a mound of peat; Peat barge with two figures, 1883

Workman beside a mound of peat; Peat barge with two figures, 1883

Letter sketch

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    1. Wout J. Dijk en Meent W. van der Sluis

      De Drentse tijd van Vincent van Gogh 1883
      Groningen, 2001