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Wouter van der Veen (born 1974) is a researcher and author specialising in the life and work of Vincent van Gogh.[1] His research has focused on Van Gogh's correspondence, literary culture and final period in Auvers-sur-Oise.[2][3] He contributed to the critical edition of Van Gogh's correspondence and to exhibition catalogues published by the Van Gogh Museum and the Musée d'Orsay.[4][5] In 2020, he identified the exact location depicted in Van Gogh's final painting, Tree Roots.[2]
Career and research
[edit]Van der Veen worked on the transcription and translation of the French-language manuscripts for the complete critical edition of Van Gogh's correspondence.[4] His article "From Michelet to Gauguin: Van Gogh's Literary Mind" appeared in the Van Gogh Museum Journal in 2003.[6]
He completed a doctorate at Utrecht University in 2007 on the literary sources of Van Gogh's thought and work.[7] His monograph Van Gogh: A Literary Mind was published by the Van Gogh Museum and Waanders in 2009 as the second volume of Van Gogh Studies. Utrecht University classifies it as a peer-reviewed academic publication.[3]
Van der Veen taught at the University of Strasbourg and subsequently became an associate researcher there.[7] He served as scientific director of the Institut Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise from 2012 to 2022.[7]
Research on Van Gogh's final period
[edit]In 2020, Van der Veen matched the forms in Tree Roots with a bank of exposed roots shown on an early twentieth-century postcard of the Rue Daubigny in Auvers-sur-Oise. The site was inaugurated in the presence of representatives of the Van Gogh Museum and Vincent Willem van Gogh, the artist's great-grandnephew.[8] A historical photograph found in 2021 confirmed the identification of the exact location.[9] The Musée d'Orsay later described the discovery as the identification of the exact place where Van Gogh painted the work.[2]
Van der Veen contributed to Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise: His Final Months, the scholarly catalogue published in several languages by the Van Gogh Museum and the Musée d'Orsay for their 2023–2024 exhibition.[5] For the same exhibition, the Musée d'Orsay presented his research into a surviving frame associated with the 1905 Van Gogh retrospective at the Salon des Indépendants. Documentary evidence supported his conclusion that it corresponded to Van Gogh's preferred framing design, which the museum used to reframe four paintings in the exhibition.[2]
He was the general curator of Van Gogh, les derniers voyages, an exhibition presented at cultural sites in Auvers-sur-Oise, and supervised the restoration of the house of Paul Gachet.[10][7]
Selected publications
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ de Reus, Tjerk (1 July 2009). "Van Gogh en het menselijk lijden". Reformatorisch Dagblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "Portrait · Wouter van der Veen, spécialiste de Vincent van Gogh". Musée d'Orsay (in French). 24 November 2023. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- 1 2 "Van Gogh: A Literary Mind: Van Gogh Studies 2". Utrecht University Research Portal. 2009. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- 1 2 "De brieven: de volledige, geïllustreerde en geannoteerde uitgave". Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (in Dutch). Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- 1 2 Annual Report 2023 (Report). Van Gogh Museum. 2023. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- ↑ van der Veen, Wouter (2003). "From Michelet to Gauguin: Van Gogh's Literary Mind". Van Gogh Museum Journal. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Van Gogh and the Art of Words by historian Wouter van der Veen". Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles. 2026. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- ↑ "Las últimas pinceladas de Van Gogh". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 6 August 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- ↑ Annual Report 2021 (PDF) (Report). Van Gogh Europe. 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- ↑ Van Gogh: ses liens, ses rencontres, ses inspirations (PDF) (Report) (in French). Château d'Auvers and Maison du docteur Gachet. 2025. Retrieved 19 September 2026.
- 1 2 "Wouter Van Der Veen". University of Strasbourg (in French). Retrieved 19 September 2026.