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.
Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen out - probably in late 1885 - when Van Gogh also added the congregation, and leaves to bare trees. The congregation are in mourning clothes: Van Gogh's father had died in March 1885 It is catalogued as "F25" in Jacob Baart de la Faille's 1928 "The Works of Vincent van Gogh" and as "JH521" in Jan Hulsker's 1978 "The Complete Van Gogh". "Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen" is held by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. It was stolen on 7 December 2002, along with Van Gogh's early painting of "Beach at Scheveningen in Stormy Weather", and remained