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23-507: Nuenen ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈnynə(n)] ) is a town in the municipality of Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten in the Netherlands . From 1883 to 1885, Vincent van Gogh lived and worked in Nuenen. In 1944, a battle was fought there during Operation Market Garden . The local dialect is called Peellands. In 2009, Nuenen had a population of 22,437. Nuenen is listed in the 1792 Gazetteer of

46-509: A lithograph of the composition The Potato Eaters before embarking on the painting proper. He sent impressions to his brother and, in a letter to a friend, wrote that he made the lithograph from memory in the space of a day. Van Gogh had first experimented with lithography in The Hague in 1882. Though he appreciated small scale graphic work and was an enthusiastic collector of English engravings he worked relatively little in graphic mediums. In

69-414: A letter dated around 3 December 1882 he remarks I believe, though, that it would be a great mistake to imagine that such things as, for instance, the print The Grace (a family of woodcutters or peasants at table) were created at a stroke in their final form. No, in most cases the solidity and pith of the small is only obtained through much more serious study than is imagined by those who think lightly of

92-851: Is an oil painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh painted in April 1885 in Nuenen , Netherlands. It is in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The original oil sketch is at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, and he made lithographs of the image, which are held in collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The painting is considered to be one of Van Gogh's masterpieces. During March and

115-854: Is dramatised in episode 4 "Replacements" of the television series Band of Brothers . The spoken language is Peellands (an East Brabantian dialect, which is very similar to colloquial Dutch ). In 1882 Van Gogh's father became a pastor in Nuenen and the family lived at the vicarage there. After a stay in Drenthe for several months, Van Gogh moved to live with his parents in December 1883 and stayed there until May 1885. During that time he painted many character studies of peasants and weavers that culminated in The Potato Eaters , and paintings of still life . He also painted his father's church, vicarage and its garden , one such work being Congregation Leaving

138-605: Is known to have admired the Belgian painter Charles de Groux and in particular his work The blessing before supper . De Groux's work is a solemn depiction of a peasant family saying grace before supper. The painting was closely linked to Christian representations of the Last Supper . Van Gogh's The Potato Eaters was inspired by this work of de Groux and similar religious connotations can be identified in Van Gogh's work. Van Gogh made

161-609: Is located in the central park of the town. Theoretical computer scientist Edsger W. Dijkstra lived in Nuenen later in his life, and died there in 2002. The following year, the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) PODC Influential Paper Award in distributed computing was renamed the Dijkstra Prize in his honour. Dutch cyclist Steven Kruijswijk was also born in Nuenen and had lived there in his youth. Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten A battle fought in Nuenen during World War II

184-1009: Is often associated in people's minds with the Post-Impressionist movement , but in fact his artistic roots lay much closer to home in the artists of the Hague School such as Anton Mauve and Jozef Israëls . In a letter to his brother Theo written mid-June 1884, Vincent remarks: When I hear you talk about a lot of new names, it's not always possible for me to understand when I've seen absolutely nothing by them. And from what you said about 'Impressionism', I’ve grasped that it's something different from what I thought it was, but it's still not entirely clear to me what one should understand by it. But for my part, I find so tremendously much in Israëls, for instance, that I'm not particularly curious about or eager for something different or newer. Before Vincent painted The Potato Eaters , Israëls had already treated

207-537: Is referred to as his so-called dark or sombre period. Here he painted his famous painting The Potato Eaters as well as Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen ( Het uitgaan van de hervormde kerk te Nuenen ). The latter painting was stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in December 2002. Edsger Dijkstra (1930–2002), Dutch computer scientist , then a professor in the Mathematics Department at

230-495: Is that the painting of the peasants eating potatoes that I did in Nuenen is after all the best thing I did". However, the work was criticized by his friend Anthon van Rappard soon after it was painted. This was a blow to Van Gogh's confidence as an emerging artist, and he wrote back to his friend, "you... had no right to condemn my work in the way you did" (July 1885), and later, "I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it." (August 1885). Vincent Van Gogh

253-452: The Kröller-Müller Museum in December 1988. In April 1989, the thieves returned Weaver's Interior in an attempt to gain a $ 2.5 million ransom . The police recovered the other two on 14 July 1989; no ransom was paid. On 14 April 1991, the Vincent van Gogh National Museum was robbed of twenty major paintings including the final version of The Potato Eaters . However, the getaway car suffered

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276-494: The Technical University of Eindhoven , moved to a newly built house in Nuenen in 1964. Nuenen was added to the world map of computer science in 1973 when Dijkstra started to circulate his reports signed ‘Burroughs Research Fellow’ with his home address. Many thought that Burroughs , a company known at that time for the production of computers based on an innovative hardware architecture, was based in Nuenen. In fact, Dijkstra

299-738: The Netherlands, which lists it as "a village of Brabant, two leagues W. from Helmont". During Operation Market Garden on 20 September 1944, Nuenen was the scene of a battle involving the American 506th PIR of the 101st Airborne Division and the British 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars of the 11th Armoured Division equipped with Cromwell tanks , against the German 107th Panzer Brigade . The British lost two tanks. Four American and three British soldiers were killed. The Germans suffered two fatalities. The fight

322-528: The Reformed Church in Nuenen ( Het uitgaan van de hervormde kerk te Nuenen ) depicting the church, which is situated in a park area on the corner of Papenvoort Street and Houtrijk Street in the north of Nuenen. This painting was stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in December 2002 and recovered in Italy in September 2016. There is a street named after it in the town, as well as a cafe, college and bar. A statue of Van Gogh

345-498: The Table , Vincent had an appreciation for a simpler lifestyle. Vincent was known to disregard the finer things, once writing in a letter to his brother Theo: When I receive money, even if I've fasted, isn't for food, but is even stronger for painting [...] meanwhile the lifeline I cling to is my breakfast with the people where I live, and a cup of coffee and bread in the cremerie in the evening... Van Gogh seemed to emotionally identify with

368-447: The beginning of April 1885, Van Gogh sketched studies for the painting and corresponded with his brother Theo , who was not impressed with his current work nor the sketches Van Gogh sent him in Paris. He began working on The Potato Eaters while living with his parents in Nuenen, a rural town which was home to many farmers, labourers and weavers. He worked on the painting from 13 April until

391-479: The beginning of May, when it was mostly done except for minor changes that he made with a small brush later the same year. Van Gogh said he wanted to depict peasants as they really were. He deliberately chose coarse and ugly models, thinking that they would be natural and unspoiled in his finished work. Writing to his sister Willemina two years later in Paris, Van Gogh still considered The Potato Eaters his most successful painting: "What I think about my own work

414-495: The latter of which has an independent Alderman . Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) spent two years in Nuenen from 1883 to 1885. His father lived and worked there as the Protestant pastor in the largely catholic environment. Van Gogh lived in the small carriagehouse next to the beautiful pastor's house, which is well preserved and visited by art lovers from all over the world. Van Gogh was extremely productive in his years in Nuenen. It

437-537: The middle class, although he was from a family who were quite well-off. The subject was that of the harsh reality of life in the working class. He also simply admired the sustainability of the potato, or aardappel in Dutch. Aardappel literally translates to "earth apple," which paints an idea of a simpler, hearty lifestyle. Thieves stole the early version of The Potato Eaters, the Weaver's Interior , and Dried Sunflowers from

460-440: The same subject in his A Peasant Family at the Table and, judging from a comment in a letter to Theo 11 March 1882, Vincent had seen this (or at least a variation of it) and had been inspired to produce his own version of it. Compositionally, the two are very similar: in both paintings the composition of the painting is centered by a figure whose back is turned to the viewer. As well as an interest gained by A Peasant Family at

483-413: The task of illustrating ... Anyway, some paintings in their huge frames look very substantial, and later one is surprised when they actually leave behind such an empty and dissatisfied feeling. On the other hand, one overlooks many an unpretentious woodcut or lithograph or etching now and then, but comes back to it and becomes more and more attached to it with time, and senses something great in it. Van Gogh

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506-432: Was shown in an episode of the miniseries Band of Brothers . The historical battle took place there during Operation Market-Garden in September 1944. As of the 2022 municipal election , The municipal council of Nuenen contains seven parties. As of 2018, the municipal executive consists of four coalition parties: W70 Nuenen, GreenLeft (GL), Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) and Naturally Nuenen (Socialist Party before),

529-630: Was the only research fellow of Burroughs Corporation and worked for it from home, occasionally travelling to its branches in the USA. Dijkstra moved in 1984 to the University of Austin , Texas , USA, until his retirement in the autumn of 1999. Dijkstra returned from Austin, terminally ill, to his original house in Nuenen in February 2002, where he died half a year later, on 6 August 2002. The Potato Eaters The Potato Eaters ( Dutch : De Aardappeleters )

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