Making Van Gogh by Alexander Eiling

Making van Gogh focuses on the uvre of Vincent van Gogh in the context of its reception. The publication examines the particular role which German gallerists, collectors, critics and museums played in the story of his success. At the same time it sheds light on the importance of van Gogh as a role model for the avant-garde generation of artists. Van Gogh is dead, but the van Gogh-chaps are alive! And how alive they are. It is van Goghing everywhere, was how Ferdinand Avenarius described it in 1910 in the magazine Der Kunstwart.