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.
Japonaiserie (Van Gogh) and his brother Theo dealt in these prints, and they eventually amassed hundreds of them, now housed in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. In a letter to Theo dated about 5 June 1888 Vincent remarks A month later he wrote, Van Gogh's interest in Japanese "ukiyo-e" prints dates from his time in Antwerp when he was also immersing himself in Delacroix's theory of colour and where he used them to decorate his studio. During his subsequent stay in Paris, where "Japonisme" had become a fashion influencing the work of the Impressionists, he began to collect "ukiyo-e" prints and eventually to