Amsterdam Gogh lived in Amsterdam for a short while and there is a museum dedicated to his work. The museum is housed in one of the few modern buildings in this area of Amsterdam. The building was designed by Gerrit Rietveld. This building is where the permanent collection is displayed. A new building was added to the museum in 1999. This building, known as the performance wing, was designed by Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa. Its purpose is to house temporary exhibitions of the museum. Some of Van Gogh's most famous paintings, like "The Potato Eaters" and "Sunflowers", are in the collection.
Van Gogh Museum van Gogh. The main exhibition chronicles the various phases of Van Gogh's artistic life. His selected works from Nuenen (1880–1885): His selected works from Antwerp (1886): His selected works from Paris (1886–1888): His selected works from Arles (1888–1889): His selected works from Saint-Rémy (1889–1890): And his selected works from Auvers-sur-Oise (1890): The permanent collection also includes nine of the artist's self-portraits and some of his earliest paintings dating back to 1882. The museum also features notable art works by Van Gogh's contemporaries in the Impressionist and post-Impressionist movements and holds extensive exhibitions on various subjects from 19th Century art history.