EDE, the Netherlands, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Dutch Kroller-Muller Museum in the Netherlands has this week displayed all paintings in its collection by Vincent Van Gogh for the first time since 1984.
The museum is home to 88 paintings by the 19th-century Dutch artist. It is one of the world's largest collections of his work.
"The exhibition presents all the paintings in relation to the three divine virtues: faith, hope and love," the museum said.
The exhibition, called "Van Gogh, All Our Paintings," opened on Tuesday. It features some of the artist's best-known works, including The Potato Eaters, The Sower, Cafe Terrace at Night, Sorrowing Old Man (At Eternity's Gate), L'Arlesienne and The Old Tower at Nuenen.
"Even before he became an artist, he wanted to help and comfort people through his work. That remained important to him throughout his artistic career," said the museum's curator Renske Cohen Tervaert.
Helene Kroller-Muller, the museum's founder, began collecting Van Gogh's works in 1908. Between then and 1930, she and her husband, Anton Kroller, acquired 88 paintings and more than 170 works on paper by Van Gogh.
Born in 1853, Van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose life and artistic career have had a lasting influence on art around the world. He died in 1890 at the age of 37. ■