Amsterdam: suicide weapon of Vincent Van Gogh for the first time on public display – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

The Lefaucheux pocket revolver, caliber 7.0 mm

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a heavily rusted revolver is the highlight of a new exhibition of Vincent Van Gogh in Amsterdam – because with this weapon to the Dutch painters have caused his death. “The small, badly rusted revolver from a private collection” going on public display for the first time, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam said Tuesday on the occasion of his exhibition “The Edge of Reason” In the last year and a half of Van Gogh.

Probably with this weapon had Van Gogh shot on 27 July 1890 a field in France Auvers-sur-Oise himself in the chest. Thereafter, however, it was yet succeeded to zurückzuschleppen to his inn in the artist village near Paris. 30 hours later died of 37-year-old painter in his brother Theo’s arms. The murder weapon had not been found at that time.

More but found the subject

Around 1960, a farmer in Auvers on his land a rusty weapon – a Lefaucheux bag revolver caliber 7.0 mm. In the area Van Gogh had shot himself. “The degree of corrosion suggested that the gun 50 to 60 years in the soil was” the Museum

told The low firepower of the weapon also offer an explanation of why the fired close ball to Van Goghs ribs bounced. The bullet slide reportedly but deeper, so that removal of the ball is considered too dangerous was and Van Gogh finally succumbed to his injury.

Another interesting piece of the exhibition is a drawing of Doctor Felix Rey anfertigte after Van Gogh had cut off the left ear during his time in the south of France Arles. The drawing shows that the painter separated out the entire ear and not accepted as long, only part of it, explained the museum.

raised the curator out that Van Gogh’s art “not as a product of his illness should be considered “, but rather was created in spite of his condition. The exhibition will be officially opened on Friday and will be shown until September 25.

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