GERMANY ~ Field with Poppies - Vincent van Gogh ~

... Posting two postcards today related to each other... first one shows Vincent van Gogh's beautiful "Field with Poppies"... the "father of modern art" has got to be one of the most interesting and famous artists in history... but during his lifetime he was hardly known and suffered financial hardship... fields are the artist's leitmotif, a motif, which runs like a thread through his work... it's part of the collection of the Kunsthalle Bremen ( showing on other postcard) and bought in 1910 by Gustav Pauli... the purchase prompted the protest of German artists against the arrival of French Modernism in German museums... he started an art scandal that has since become famous... known as the "Bremen artist dispute" or "Bremen art dispute"... with lovely matching stamp and as always and a great first day special postmark "Treasures of German Museums"!👍 Thanks a lot Dustin!【ツ】

At the beginning of May 1989, four and a half months after his serious breakdown, Vincent van Gogh entered a sanatorium in Saint-Rémy in the Provence where he let himself be voluntarily treated. When he was allowed to leave the the grounds of the institution in the beginning of June, this oil on canvas was of the first motifs he decided to paint.

Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853 -1890) was a Dutch post-impressionist painter. In just over a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life.

They include landscapes, still life's, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterized by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art.  His suicide at 37 came after years of mental illness and poverty.

Stamp:

Treasures of German Museums
 (Issued 02-01-2020)