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The story of Vincent van Gogh’s love life is mainly one of setbacks. Vincent was deeply in love with a number of women, and some of them loved him back. But he was never really lucky in love.
- What Was Van Gogh’s Love Life Like? - Van Gogh Museum
For a while in The Hague, he lived together with Sien...
- What Was Van Gogh’s Love Life Like? - Van Gogh Museum
For a while in The Hague, he lived together with Sien Hoornik – a former prostitute – bringing even more shame upon his family. In Nuenen, there was his devout, rather unstable neighbour Margot Begemann, who tried to take her life when her family forbade her from seeing Vincent.
May 18, 2022 · Van Gogh in Love: Directed by Jean-Luc Ayach. With Frédéric Diefenthal, Hande Kodja, Steve Driesen, Marie Borg. Léo, a contemporary artist, wants to reconnect with Élise, his former companion but Vincent Van Gogh, who returned to our time, fell in love with her.
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- Comedy
- Jean-Luc Ayach
- 2022-05-18
- Caroline Haanebeek
- Eugénie Loyer
- Kee Stricker
- Sien Hoornik
- Margot Begemann
- Gordina de Groot
- Agostina Segatori
- The End
Caroline and her sister Annet were Vincent’s second cousins on his mother’s side. His love for Caroline went unrequited and she married another man. At the same time, Annet became a sweetheart of Theo (Vincent’s younger brother), but she fell ill and died.
Eugénie Loyer was the 19-year-old daughter of a principal of a boys’ school and Vincent’s landlady while the artist was living in London. The principal rented him a room when Vincent was taken on as a trainee in 1873 at Goupil art dealers. Vincent and Eugénie got on “like brother and sister”, but nothing more happened; Loyer was secretly engaged to...
The third woman, Kee Stricker, was also Van Gogh’s cousin. Vincent met her just after the recent death of her husband. However, Stricker’s answer to the marriage proposals was: “No, nay, never”. Yet, Vincent didn’t give up easily and even though both families opposed the relationship, the artist traveled to Amsterdam and turned up on the Stricker f...
There is no secret that Vincent was much attracted to“those women whom the clergymen damn so and superciliously despise and condemn from the pulpit”– as he wrote to Theo once. Of course, I mean sex workers. In 1882, he became involved with Clasina “Sien” Maria Hoornik (1850–1904), a pregnant sex worker he had met on the street. The family didn’t ac...
In 1884, Vincent moved back in with his parents in Nuenen. Margaretha “Margot” Begemann (1841–1907) was ten years his senior and the daughter of their neighbors. She responded to Vincent’s advances, but their proposed marriage was opposed by Margot’s sisters. Another problem was that Begemannfrequently suffered from nervousness and mood swings. On ...
Vincent had contact in Nuenen with a farmer’s daughter, Gordina de Groot, one of the “potato eaters“. When De Groot became pregnant, everyone was positive that Vincent was the father. He denied it, and it was later revealed that he indeed wasn’t the baby’s father. Whatever the case, the parish priest lost patience with all the tittle-tattle and pro...
What precisely went on between Vincent and Agostina Segatori, the Italian owner of the restaurant Le Tambourin, on the Boulevard de Clichy in Paris, remains unclear. The two had a relationship from December 1886 to May 1887. Segatori was also a famous model who posed for celebrated painters in Paris, such as Édouard Joseph Dantan, Jean-Baptiste Cor...
Segatori seems to be the last woman Vincent was in love with. After so many failed relationships, while staying in Arles in 1888, Vincent turned for comfort to sex workers and to his only “requited love” – art. His death occurred in the early morning of 29 July 1890, in his room at the Auberge Ravoux in the village of Auvers-sur-Oise in northern Fr...
Unrequited loves. The story of Vincent’s love of women is mainly one of setbacks and rejections. There was no shortage of desire or need on his part, but Vincent was never lucky in love. How...
Van Gogh in Love tells the story of Van Gogh’s longing for love and a family. It explores the lesser-known area of his (not so!) romantic love life. Matters of love were always on his mind, and were inextricably linked with other aspects of his life.
Sep 14, 2023 · Be blown away by Van Gogh’s most spectacular paintings in our once-in-a-century exhibition. Walk with a pair of lovers beneath a starry night. Look up at swirling clouds and cypress trees swaying in the wind.
