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No visit to the city that prides itself on not to make a visit to the Van Gogh Museum where visitors can enjoy almost all the work of Vincent van Gogh, one of those artists best known contemporary art world and one of The most significant of the Netherlands along with Rembrandt.

When he died at 37 years old van Gogh had left a legacy of some 900 pictures and over a thousand pictures could not sell, nor had given to friends and family. It was his brother Theo van Gogh, an art dealer, who was left with this legacy which had to add many works by artists such as Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Jean François Millet.

But his early death was not him who promotes the work of his brother along with other paintings acquired, but it was his widow, Johanna van Gogh who returns to the Netherlands and is devoted to exhibit, thus contributing to the dissemination of work of this important painter.

The first major exhibition to take place in 1905 at the Stedelijk Museum, the Rijksmuseum, the refusal to accept on loan from the works of Van Gogh. Thus, during the following years either by Johanna Van Gogh’s work and for his son Vincent Willem van Gogh’s paintings and drawings was being provided roaming to museums in Amsterdam.

Finally in 1960 the Foundation was created to Vincent van Gogh that he would be assigned until the entire collection in 1973 opened its doors the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam where they are now publicly available.