Zyklus und Serie Van Goghs Ansichten des ummauerten Feldes in Saint-Rémy

A few weeks before van Gogh admitted himself into a mental hospital in Saint-Rémy in spring 1889 he had written to Gauguin that he wanted to create a "consolatory art for distressed hearts". From his bedroom in the clinic he overlooked an enclosed wheat field. Over the course of a year th...

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Other Authors: Baumann, Lukas, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Alemán
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2018.
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Summary:A few weeks before van Gogh admitted himself into a mental hospital in Saint-Rémy in spring 1889 he had written to Gauguin that he wanted to create a "consolatory art for distressed hearts". From his bedroom in the clinic he overlooked an enclosed wheat field. Over the course of a year the seasonal changes inspired Van Gogh to paint a cycle of this wheat field, thereby seeing it as an allegorical representation of the fate of human life, which comforted him.
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