House of sexton Schafrat and Het Park
Vincent rented two rooms from May 1884 from the Catholic sexton Johannes Schafrat, whose house stood on this spot.
Vincent rented two rooms from May 1884 from the Catholic sexton Johannes Schafrat, whose house stood on this spot. Here Vincent had his studio and painted his masterpiece ‘The Potato Eaters’. The sexton’s house was demolished in 1936. A statue of a painter with his easel in the front garden reminds of the fact that Vincent had a studio here.
Directly opposite this place stands a sculpture group of The Potato Eaters. On 9 December 2015 the artwork by the artist Peter Nagelkerke was unveiled. Further north in The Park stands a statue of Vincent van Gogh, erected in 1984, one hundred years after the stay of Van Gogh in Nuenen.
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