Charley Toorop: Love for Van Gogh

May 24, 2025

Renske Cohen Tervaert, Wessel Krul, Franka Blok, Marjet Brolsma

Charley Toorop’s work has an originality and power all its own. However, there is one artist who she believed stood at the cradle of her artistic practice and whom she subsequently respected throughout her life: Vincent van Gogh. For her, his work was ‘the breakthrough to a new world’.

In four essays her fascination is outlined. Among the topics discussed are her travels to the Borinage and southern France, where she sees the landscape and people through Van Gogh’s eyes and her respect for Van Gogh’s ‘deep harsh love of reality’.

Exhibition
24 May to 14 September 2025
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

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