Vincent van Gogh is world-famous. Did you know that in 1883, Van Gogh spent three months living in Drenthe? This was a short yet significant period in his life. Here, he developed his passion for painting.
Artist friends recommended that Van Gogh visit Drenthe to…
Vincent van Gogh is world-famous. Did you know that in 1883, Van Gogh spent three months living in Drenthe? This was a short yet significant period in his life. Here, he developed his passion for painting.
Artist friends recommended that Van Gogh visit Drenthe to be inspired by the primeval landscape and the Drenthe peat labourers. There are vista panels just like this one in various locations throughout the Drenthe landscape. Looking through the panels, you look into the landscape as if through Vincent van Gogh's eyes standing in the places that inspired him.
Apple Orchard
‘Wanted to tell you briefly about a trip to Zweeloo, the village where Lieberman lodged for a long time & made studies for his Schij van laatsten Salon with the washerwomen.’ With this sentence, Van Gogh reveals how much artists looked at each other’s work. But above all, they looked at the places where the painters took their inspiration. The village of Zweeloo was and still is a place where artists find inspiration in the picturesque farmland.
Van Gogh hoped to meet the painter Max Liebermann in Zweeloo. But Liebermann was no longer in the village, there were no painters at all. After all, it was November, not a great time to lodge in an uncomfortable country inn or paint outside. As there is no one to talk to, Van Gogh probably makes a sketch from this spot, disappointed, of the apple orchard where Liebermann created his painting The Bleaching Ground at Zweeloo. The linen sheets were bleached in the sun on meadows mowed short, such as among apple trees.
THESE VISTA PANELS ARE PART OF THE THREE SIGNPOSTED VAN GOGH CYCLING ROUTES.
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