Vincent van Gogh Van Gogh Museum opened in the Museumplein in Amsterdam in 1973. It became the second most popular museum in the Netherlands, after the Rijksmuseum, regularly receiving more than 1.5 million visitors a year. In 2015 it had a record 1.9 million; 85 percent of the visitors come from other countries. Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of
Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-Rémy (Van Gogh series) Alpilles range, can be seen from the streets of Saint-Remy. Van Gogh generally saw the Alpilles from his room or the grounds of Saint-Paul hospital. In Van Gogh's "Le Mont Gaussier with the Mas de Saint-Paul" the Alpilles are painted in yellow, green and purple. Left of Mont Gaussier is the "Montagne des Deux Trous". In van Gogh's painting of this hill its dark holes are visible about the "undulating olive trees." Van Gogh, known for his landscapes, seemed to find painting portraits his greatest ambition. To his sister he wrote, "I should like to paint portraits which appear after