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Johanna Gezina van Gogh-Bonger (4 October 1862 – 2 September 1925) was a Dutch editor who translated the hundreds of letters of her first husband, art dealer Theo van Gogh, and Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh-Bonger played a key role in the growth of Vincent van Gogh's posthumous fame.
The letters were published in three volumes in 1914 by Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Theo's widow, who also generously supported most of the early Van Gogh exhibitions with loans from the artist's estate. Publication of the letters helped spread the compelling mystique of Vincent van Gogh, the intense and dedicated painter who died young, throughout ...
Johanna van Gogh-Bonger played a very important role in establishing the fame of Van gogh through her editing of his letters and through lending works for early exhibitions. As Van Gogh's works now attract extraordinarily high prices at auction, the history of how the market for his work was established is an important topic.
He had just been loaned two paintings by Van Gogh from Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, the widow of Vincent's brother Theo van Gogh. They were one his famous series Sunflowers, now held in the National Gallery, in London, and The Yellow House in Arles, where he lived, now in the Van Gogh Museum, in Amsterdam. Isaac had requested to borrow these works ...
Andries Bonger (1861–1936), Dutch art collector, brother of Johanna Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (1862–1925), wife of Theo van Gogh and keyplayer in the growth of Vincent van Gogh's fame Willem Adriaan Bonger (1876–1940), Dutch criminologist
First sold in 1897 by Van Gogh's sister-in-law Johanna van Gogh-Bonger for 300 francs, the painting was subsequently bought by Paul Cassirer (1904), Kessler (1904), and Druet (1910). In 1911, the painting was acquired by the Städel (Städtische Galerie) in Frankfurt , Germany and hung there until 1933, when the painting was put in a hidden room.
Boch received Van Gogh's portrait of him, The Poet, from Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Van Gogh's sister in law. After his death, Boch's great-nephew Luitwin von Boch purchased part of Boch's collection with the intention of creating a museum for the work of Boch and his sister Anna. [citation needed]
In 1901, Cohen married Johanna Bonger, the widow of Theo van Gogh, who had died in 1891. They built a villa, named "Eikenhof", in Bussum, but lived there only a short time before moving to Amsterdam. In 1905, Cohen helped organize an exhibition of the works of Vincent van Gogh at the Stedelijk Museum and wrote the introduction to the catalogue ...