Brabant is Vincent van Gogh’s homeland (1853 - 1890). Van Gogh’s masterpieces are scattered throughout the world, but their roots are in Brabant. Here is where Van Gogh produced his first masterpiece ‘The Potato Eaters’. To this day, Vincent’s footsteps can be traced in places like Zundert, Nuenen, Tilburg, Etten-Leur and ’s-Hertogenbosch. You can see the house where he was born, his young brother’s grave, his art class at school, the parsonage and several churches where his father worked. Nuenen is a historical village that offers a walking tour along 23 locations related to his work. The Noordbrabants Museum in ‘s-Hertogenbosch houses original works by Van Gogh in ‘The Story of Brabant’.
The Markdal Valley was the end of my day trip through the Vincent van Gogh countryside and landscapes in the area south of Breda. After moving in with his parents in Etten early in 1881, Vincent was inspired by the rural surroundings and by the peasants w
I discovered five places in the Brabant countryside that Vincent recorded on canvas a century and a half ago. In this blog I’ll accompany you past places in the Dommel Valley marshland and heathland, and I hope it will be my turn to inspire you.
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Follow in the footsteps of master painter Van Gogh
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Great museum about Vincent van Gogh, and some art by artists inspired by Van Gogh.
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