There is a vista panel here. Walk into the cemetery. You’ll find the vista panel to the right of hte path. After reaching the vista, take the path to the left to reach another Van Gogh monument on your right.
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 r…
There is a vista panel here. Walk into the cemetery. You’ll find the vista panel to the right of hte path. After reaching the vista, take the path to the left to reach another Van Gogh monument on your right.
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.
Cemetery
Vincent van Gogh walked a lot, and over great distances. His wanderings were a search for people, models, and original Drenthe landscapes. He covered quite a few kilometres around Hoogeveen during the autumn of 1883 during his three-week stay. Always searching, watching, and fascinated by the landscape.
On Saturday 15 September 1883, he saw a cemetery and in the distance, a church spire. It could possibly have been this cemetery in Hollandscheveld, or it could be that the Pesse cemetery is depicted in this sketch here.
‘Imagine an plot of heathland with a hedge of closely spaced mast trees around it such that one would think it was an ordinary mast grove. But there is an entrance, a short lane, and then you come to a number of graves overgrown with bunt and heather.’
The area around this cemetery is now under cultivation. It looked vastly different in Vincent van Gogh’s time; much more wild and natural. You could already see the peat digging sites near Hoogeveen’s municipal border. Commercial peat extraction ended here some years after Vincent van Gogh’s visit.
THESE VISTA PANELS ARE PART OF THE THREE SIGNPOSTED VAN GOGH CYCLING ROUTES.
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