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Willem Bonger (brother) Johanna Gezina van Gogh-Bonger (4 October 1862 – 2 September 1925) was a multilingual 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. [1][2][3][4]
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh is a collection of 903 surviving letters written (820) or received (83) by Vincent van Gogh. [1] More than 650 of these were from Vincent to his brother Theo . [ 2 ] The collection also includes letters van Gogh wrote to his sister Wil and other relatives, as well as between artists such as Paul Gauguin , Anthon ...
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 ...
Wilhelmina[a] Jacoba " Wil " van Gogh (Dutch pronunciation: [ʋɪl (ɦɛlˈminaː jaːˈkoːbaː) vɑŋ ˈɣɔx]; 16 March 1862 – 17 May 1941) [1] was a nurse, teacher of scripture, and early Dutch feminist. She is the youngest and best-known sister of artist Vincent van Gogh, to whom he was close, [2] and the art dealer Theo van Gogh.
Died. 20 January 1936. (1936-01-20) (aged 74) Nationality. Dutch. Relatives. Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (sister), Willem Bonger (brother) Andries Bonger (20 May 1861 – 20 January 1936) was a Dutch art collector, as well as Johanna van Gogh-Bonger 's brother and Theo van Gogh 's friend, who later became his brother-in-law.
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh. London and other locations: Penguin Books. Luijten, Hans (2022). Jo van Gogh-Bonger: The Woman Who Made Vincent Famous. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts. ISBN 978-1350299580; Lubin, A (1996) [1972]. Stranger on the Earth: A Psychological Biography of Vincent van Gogh. New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80726-2.
Van Gogh receives a letter from Theo in which he announces his engagement to Johanna Bonger. In the evening Van Gogh and Gauguin argue again. Van Gogh cuts off his left ear and takes it, wrapped in paper, to a local brothel where he gives the ear to a woman named Rachel, asking her to look after it for him. Gauguin spends the night in a local ...
Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette (Dutch: Kop van een skelet met brandende sigaret) is an early work by Vincent van Gogh. The small and undated oil-on-canvas painting featuring a skeleton and cigarette is part of the permanent collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. [1] It was most likely painted in the winter of 1885–86 as a ...