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How the Germans invented Vincent van Gogh ; VISUAL ART ++ Van Gogh and Expressionism Van Gogh Museum AMSTERDAM
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The Independent on Sunday
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December 10, 2006
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When the director of the Bremen Kunsthalle proposed that his
museum buy van Gogh's Poppies in a Field at St-Remy in 1911, local
artists rose up in fury. Why waste money on inferior French art when
there was the echt German kind to be had right there? Standing in
front of the picture, currently on loan to the Van Gogh Museum in
Amsterdam, you suppress a little shudder. Three years after this
outburst, German nationalism would take on an altogether bloodier
tinge. So, too, would poppies in French fields.
The really odd thing about this story, though, is how untypical
it was of Van Gogh's reception in Germany. In 1937, the spirit of
the burghers of Bremen would find voice in Goebbels's ...
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