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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Van Gogh: Still Lifes

Oct 26, 2019 – Feb 2, 2020
Humboldtstraße 5-6, 14467 Potsdam, Germany

About a fifth of Vincent Van Gogh’s 800 or so paintings are still lifes. The first exhibition to focus exclusively on these works shows them to be both a means of experiment for the artist—studies that allowed flights of color and light—and a measure of outside influences, such as Impressionism and Japanese woodcuts. Van Gogh’s 10-year evolution as an artist, cut short by his premature death at 37, is alive within his still lifes, 20 of which are in this show. —J.V.

Van Gogh, “Still Life with a Plate of Onions,” 1889. Courtesy of Museum Barberini, Potsdam.