“White House at Night” by Vincent van Gogh

“White House at Night” by Vincent van Gogh was created six weeks before his death. It is thought that van Gogh painted “White House at Night” around 8:00 PM, based on the position of the “star” in the painting.

Astronomers calculated that the star in the picture must be Venus, which was bright in the evening sky in June 1890. Does this painting express Van Gogh’s psychological tension?

The painting itself has had a turbulent history. In the late 1920s, it became part of a private collection of a German industrialist.

Pictures of this style were labeled “degenerate art” by the Nazis, contributing to this painting and other Post-Impressionism paintings being kept secret.

Thought to have been lost after World War II, the painting was in the Hermitage archives for fifty years before being exhibited in 1995.

At the same Hermitage exhibition, three other Van Gogh’s paintings, also thought to have been lost, were presented for the first time since the war.

They included: “Landscape with House and Ploughman,” “Morning: Going out to Work (After Millet)” and the “Portrait of Madame Trabuc” all by Vincent van Gogh.

White House at Night

Title: White House at Night
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Year: 1890
Place Created: Auvers-Sur-Oise, France
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions 59 cm × 72.5 cm (23.2 in × 28.5 in)
Museum: Hermitage Museum

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Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh has become among the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. Van Gogh was unsuccessful during his lifetime and was considered a madman and a failure.

He created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life.

They were characterized by bold colors and dramatic, impulsive, and expressive brushwork that contributed to modern art’s foundations.