The Harvest, Van Gogh (1888)
The RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, the Van Gogh Museum and the Kröller-Müller Museum have joined forces to create Van Gogh Worldwide, a free digital platform that brings together more than a thousand works by the Dutch painter.
The objective of this initiative is to present technical, historical and artistic data of the work of Vincent van Gogh in a simple and accessible way.
The platform is gradually being built, starting by including all Van Gogh's works in the Netherlands. Starting this year they will also begin to incorporate data from works located in other parts of the world.
'Cafe Terrace at Night' by Vincent van Gogh
VAN GOGH IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND
Van Gogh Worldwide has been built in collaboration with a host of partners, including museums, private collectors and research institutions, especially the Cultural Heritage Laboratory of the Netherlands Agency for Cultural Heritage (RCE).
The website is possible thanks to the three founding partners mentioned, also supported by the Vincent van Gogh Foundation and the Mondriaan Fund.
From the platform they point out that “Van Gogh Worldwide is not an authorized catalog raisonné, but consists of continually updated information on the works of Vincent van Gogh. as published in J.-B de la Faille in The Works of Vincent Van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam 1970 (also known for short as De la Faille 1970 ), but with some additions.
Sunflowers (1889)
HOW TO SEARCH FOR A WORK?
In Van Gogh Worldwide, you can search for a specific work typing your criteria in the search box, or using category filters.
Thus, you can also consult the works by periods: early period (until 1878), Borinage/Brussels (1878-1881), Etten (1881), The Hague (1881-1883), Drenthe (1883), Nuenen (1883-1885), Antwerp/Paris (1885-1888), Arles (1888-1889), Saint-Rémy (1889-1890) and Auvers-sur-Oise (1890).
You can also search for works by category (paintings, drawings, or sketches) and by contributing institutions: Centraal Museum (Utrecht), Dordrechts Museum (Dordrecht), Drents Museum (Assen), Groninger Museum (Groningen), Het Noordbrabants Museum (Den Bosch), Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (Rotterdam), Museum de Fundatie (Zwolle) , Museum Voorlinden (Wassenaar), Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), Rijksmuseum Twenthe (Enschede), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Van Gogh Huis (Zundert).
In the left column you will find many other filters such as materials (pencils, chalk, ink, pens, watercolour, charcoal, lithography, etching, linen, cardboard...) and support (layed paper, woven paper, canvas, watercolor paper, cardboard, paper, panel, plywood, tracing paper, burlap...).
Finally, you can also filter by technique (drawing, painting, lithography, oil...), theme (landscapes, cityscapes, seascapes, self-portraits, portraits, figures, nudes, still lifes, rural landscapes, animals, riverside landscapes, coastal landscapes, flowers, interiors...) and type of research (photographs, technical reports, slides, black and white photos...).
'Van Gogh's Room in Arles' (1889)
ONE WORK, ONE WORLD (POST-IMPRESSIONIST)
The information available on each work covers all kinds of details about it: technical data, provenance, restorations, exhibitions where it has been exhibited... even the letters in which the painter himself mentions it, such as those that Van Gogh wrote to his younger brother, Theo van Gogh, and to Paul Gauguin.
You can dive into Van Gogh's universe here.
Self-Portrait with Gray Felt Hat, Van Gogh (1887)