File:Van Gogh Starry Night Drawing.jpg

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Summary

Artist



Alternative names	Vincent Willem van Gogh
Description	Dutch painter, draughtsman and printmaker
Date of birth/death	30 March 1853	29 July 1890
Location of birth/death	Zundert	Auvers-sur-Oise
Work period	between circa 1880 and circa July 1890
Work location	Netherlands ( Etten, The Hague, Nuenen, …, before 1886), Paris (from 1886 until 1887), Arles (from 1888 until 1889), Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (from 1889 until 1890), Auvers-sur-Oise (1890)
Authority control	WorldCat

Title

Starry Night
Sternennacht

Medium

drawing

Dimensions

47 × 62.5 cm (18.5 × 24.6 in)

Current location

Museum of Architecture

Moscow

Object history

formely Kunsthalle Bremen

Credit line

user:Rlbberlin

Source/Photographer

Own work

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