Brabant is a must-visit destination for anyone with an interest in Vincent's life and work. He spent most of his life in Brabant, and it helped to shape him as a person and as a painter. He was always nostalgic about Brabant, the place where his deep affection for nature and rural life was born.
The family tree of the Vincent van Gogh family starts with Jan van Gogh and Jannetje den Meer, in 1575 in the vicinity of The Hague.
Read moreBreda: Vincent's grandfather, who came from an art loving family from De Hague, was a preacher of the Grote Kerk and the Royal Military Academy.
Read moreZundert: Vincent grew up as the son of the minister Theodorus van Gogh, who preaced in this church in Zundert.
Read moreZundert: The grave of Vincent's oldest brother who was stillborn can still be seen in the graveyard.
Read more
Zundert: On March 30rd 1853 Vincent van Gogh was born in Zundert.
Read moreZundert: The old village school was formerly situated on the corner of the market place, opposite Hotel de Roskam. Vincent received lessons there from January to October 1861.
Read more
Zundert: In 1910 Vincent's sister Lies wrote some romanticized memoirs of her brother and their childhood in Zundert.
Read moreZevenbergen: The Jan Provily boarding school, in Zundert, for boys was formerly housed in this building.
Read moreTilburg: The High School was housed in the former town palace of Willem II in 1866. Vincent received lessons here from one of the best drawing teachers of the time: Constant Cornelis Huijsmans.
Read moreTilburg: At this location on Korvel 57, there once stood the house of the Chief Customs Officer for Taxes, Jan Hannik and his wife Adriana van der Griend. Vincent lodged here
Read moreHelvoirt: Vincent never lived in Helvoirt. He had left the parental home two years earlier.
Read moreBreda: Vincent's rich godfather, the art dealer Vincent van Gogh, who for health reasons had returned from his busy commercial life in Paris, lived in this villa.
Read moreEtten-Leur: After several relations Vincent decided to become an artist and returned to his parental home in Etten.
Read moreEtten-Leur: Vincent felt misunderstood by his parents-a well known phenomenon.
Read moreEtten-Leur: Vincent looked close to home for his models.
Read moreEtten-Leur: In the summer of 1881 Vincent's cousin Kee Vos lodged at the presbytery. Vincent fell madly in love with her.
Read more
Etten-Leur: In Etten Vincent discovered the Pollard Willows.
Read moreEtten-Leur: Vincent often visited the farm "Boerderij D'n IJzeren Pot," where Piet Kaufmann lived with his mother and his younger sister.
Read moreNuenen: Vincent painted this church as a present for his mother
Read moreNuenen: The family Van Gogh lived here from 1882 to 1885, Vincent from December 1883 to May 1884.
Read moreNuenen: After a stay of three months in Drenthe, at the end of 1883 Vincent took the train to Nuenen where his father had been a minister since 1882.
Read moreEindhoven: This house was built by Pierre Cuypers on behalf of the retired goldsmith Antoon Hermans. Vincent gave painting lessons in the house of this amateur painter.
Read moreGerwen: Vincent van Gogh drew the St. Clemenskerk in Gerwen in December 1883.
Read moreEindhoven: Vincent made regular trips to Eindhoven.
Read moreNuenen: Only one of the many weavers' cottages which abounded in Nuenen during Van Gogh's time still remains. It was built in 1763 and is now a listed building.
Read moreNuenen: We now look out over meadows but Vincent would have seen the old tower of the 15th century church with its graveyard.
Read moreNuenen: The artist Anthon van Rappard, whom Vincent had met in Brussels in 1880 visited Van Gogh several times when he was living and working in Nuenen. They went out painting together.
Read moreNuenen: From May 1884 Vincent rented a studio from the Catholic verger Johannes Schafrat at what was then the Heieind 540. This space was more suitable for working with models.
Read moreNuenen: The Begemann family lived in Huis Nuneville, and Vincent and Margot fell in love with each other.
Read moreEindhoven: As an amateur painter Willem van de Wakker had lessons from Vincent.
Read moreHet Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch: The thatched peasants' houses in Nuenen and the surrounding area reminded Van Gogh think about the Brabant of his youth.
Read moreEindhoven: Jan Baijens (1838-1914) owned a paint shop which was located on the Rechtestraat C265 (now number 18).
Read moreNuenen: This windmill was built and commissioned during the period that Vincent was living and working in Nuenen.
Read moreHet Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch: Figure studies of peasants working in the fields symbolized for Vincent the unity of people with nature.
Read moreLieshout: During his stay in Nuenen Vincent often went out.
Read moreNuenen: In Vincent's time a farmhouse belonging to the De Groot family stood here. Vincent made a painting of the farmhouse and the family posed as models for countless studies of peasant's faces and hands.
Read moreEindhoven: The Gestel stone printer was located behind the Gestel family's home on Lange Dijk 8 (now called Vestdijk). Vincent visited the stone printer often to buy printing ink, which he used to darken his paint.
Read moreBreda: From 1888 till 1889 Vincent's mom and his youngest sister Willemien lived on the Haagdijk in Breda.
Read more