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Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies

So she was an avid letter writer, just like Vincent van Gogh

So she was an avid letter writer, just like Vincent van Gogh

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So she was an avid letter writer,
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just like Vincent van Gogh.
Duration
5 seconds
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15
Timestamp in Movie
00:18:04
Uploaded
Jun 27, 2025
Genres
documentary
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A new look at Van Gogh, through the legacy of the largest private collector of artworks by the Dutch painter: Helene Kröller-Müller (1869-1939), who, in the early 20th Century, ended up buying nearly 300 of his works.
She describes why she loves art, what it, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:07
She describes why she loves art, what it,
(speaking in a foreign language) - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:06
(speaking in a foreign language)
Van Gogh is the key and the antithesis to so much. - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:05
Van Gogh is the key and the antithesis to so much.
One, that is based on Van Gogh - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:05
One, that is based on Van Gogh
(speaking in a foreign language) - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:10
(speaking in a foreign language)
He was capable of this because, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:07
He was capable of this because,
His relevance does not consist of his works, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:06
His relevance does not consist of his works,
No, his relevance lies in touching the innermost reaches - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:07
No, his relevance lies in touching the innermost reaches
Something we may have felt unknowingly, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:06
Something we may have felt unknowingly,
Guiding us through the archive of Helene's letters, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:06
Guiding us through the archive of Helene's letters,
Like many Dutch people, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:06
Like many Dutch people,
At the time, her imagination was struck by the fact - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:06
At the time, her imagination was struck by the fact
So after graduation, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:07
So after graduation,
She spent four years with all these papers - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:08
She spent four years with all these papers
Helene found a lot of comfort - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:06
Helene found a lot of comfort
For instance, when she traveled, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:10
For instance, when she traveled,
And they were so important to her, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:18
And they were so important to her,
She found a lot of comfort in his paintings, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:05
She found a lot of comfort in his paintings,
She writes, - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:09
She writes,
They convey such beautiful human things. - Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies 00:04
They convey such beautiful human things.