Vincent van Gogh was born on 30 March 1853 in Zundert ... The brothers started collecting Japanese prints, eventually building a collection of more than 600 works. It was in Paris, in 1887 ...

He is undoubtedly one of the world's best-known painters, and his paintings never fail to draw crowds: Vincent van Gogh never ... on the easel and the Japanese print to inspire him.

"I envy the Japanese" Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo. In the exhibition on which this film is based - VAN GOGH & JAPAN at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam - one can see why. Though Vincent van ...