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Vincent van GoghHolland, 1853–1890Stjernenatten
The Starry Night
Om maleriet
Stjernenatten er et maleri af Vincent van Gogh fra juni 1889. Det er udført i olie på lærred og fylder 73,7 × 92,1 cm. Det opbevares på Museum of Modern Art i New York. Vincent Van Gogh malede det da han var indlagt på Saint-Paul-de-Mausole sindssygehospital i Saint-Remy-de-Provence da han havde skåret en del af sit venstre øre af med en baberkniv efter han havde truet Paul Gauguin med den.
Oplysninger
- Inventarnummer
- 472.1941
Imens i livet hos Vincent van Gogh
Hele livet1888
To Arles, dreaming of a “Studio of the South”
The public still neither accepted nor bought his paintings, and in February 1888 Van Gogh left for Arles in the south of France to found a “Studio of the South”, a brotherhood of like-minded artists in which he gave Gauguin the leading role. Theo backed the plan with money.
23 October 1888
Gauguin arrives in Arles
After much pleading Gauguin arrived in Arles, and in November the two painted together: Gauguin portrayed Van Gogh in “The Painter of Sunflowers”, and their first joint outing was to the Alyscamps. At Gauguin's suggestion Vincent painted from memory, producing “Memory of the Garden at Etten”.
23 December 1888
The severed ear
After an altercation on the evening of 23 December, Van Gogh, seemingly hearing voices, severed his left ear, wholly or in part, with a razor and delivered it, wrapped in paper, to a woman at a brothel. Next morning a policeman found him unconscious; in hospital he was diagnosed with “acute mania with generalised delirium”.
1889
Voluntarily into the Saint-Paul asylum
Van Gogh left Arles and voluntarily entered the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum, a former monastery in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, accompanied by the Protestant clergyman Frédéric Salles. Of his two cells with barred windows one became a studio, and the clinic and its garden became the main subjects of his paintings.
27 July 1890
A fatal wound: a revolver shot
