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Johanna (Jo) van Gogh-Bonger<\/a> was the wife of Theo van Gogh.\u00a0 It is thanks to Jo that we know as much about Vincent van Gogh<\/a> as we do.\u00a0 Interestingly, Jo met Van Gogh only 3 months before he died, when he stayed with Theo\u2019s family in Paris for 3 days.\u00a0 After the initial meeting she met him only two more times.\u00a0 Though they experienced only a slight personal relationship Jo crusaded to make Van Gogh\u2019s work widely known.<\/p>\n

On May 17, 1890 Theo met Vincent at the train station in Paris and brought him home to meet his wife.\u00a0 In her Memoir, Jo wrote this about her first meeting with Vincent,<\/p>\n

\u201cI had expected a sick person, but here was a sturdy, broad-shouldered man, with a healthy color, a smile on his face, and a very resolute appearance; of all the self-portraits, the one before the easel is most like him at that period.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe stayed with us three days and was lively and cheerful all the time.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Self<\/a><\/p>\n

At the beginning of June Dr. Gachet<\/a> invited Theo and his family to come visit on a Sunday while Vincent would be there as well.\u00a0 Following the visit Vincent sent a letter on June 10, 1890 saying,<\/p>\n

\u201cSunday has left me a very pleasant memory; in this way we feel that we are not so far from one another, and I hope that we shall often see each other again.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

I thought that the little one looked well and you two also; you must come back soon.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jo made available to Emile Bernard<\/a> letters that Vincent had sent to his brother, Theo, so they could be published in Mercure de France<\/i>.\u00a0 By 1893 a number of the letters had been published and the public was becoming aware of Van Gogh\u2019s life and ideas.\u00a0 In Paris, The Hague and Amsterdam the importance of Van Gogh\u2019s works was becoming evident in exhibitions which Jo loaned Vincent\u2019s work for.<\/p>\n

Following Theo\u2019s death, Jo determined to move back to Holland in 1891.\u00a0 Her brother, Andre, suggested that she simply be rid of all the Van Gogh works, throwing them out.\u00a0 Thankfully she paid her brother no attention.\u00a0 Instead she sold a number of the paintings and drawings over the years helping to spread Van Gogh\u2019s fame as an artist.<\/p>\n

Jo worked hard to edit the correspondence between Vincent and Theo.\u00a0 In 1914 she published Brieven aan zijn broeder<\/i>, a Dutch three volume addition of Van Gogh\u2019s letters to his brother in which she wrote a 64 page introduction for the 1st<\/sup> volume, offering many details of Van Gogh\u2019s life<\/a> that had not yet been offered.\u00a0 Her sources were the letters between the brothers, as well as her memories of the talks she and Theo had about Vincent.\u00a0\u00a0Van Gogh\u2019s mother, Anna Cornelia Carbentus, died in 1907 at the age of 87 and it is assumed that she was Jo\u2019s source for information about Van Gogh\u2019s earliest years<\/a>.\u00a0 Jo had spent years arranging the letters in chronological order though many of them offered no date.\u00a0 The order arranged was based on facts and references.\u00a0 In the early years she re-wrote the letters by hand and later years by typewriter.\u00a0 She did all of the edits herself.<\/p>\n

In 1915 Jo moved to New York and began translating the Van Gogh letters<\/a> into English.\u00a0 She died on September 2, 1925 having reached letter 526.<\/p>\n

She spent a great amount of effort to exhibit Van Gogh\u2019s works<\/a> and publish his letters so the world would be aware of Vincent\u2019s talent and Theo\u2019s sacrifice to allow the talent to mature.\u00a0 It is thanks to Johanna van Gogh\u2019s tireless efforts that Vincent van Gogh\u2019s legacy and fame spread.<\/p>\n

Letter Source:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.webexhibits.org\/vangogh\/letter\/21\/640.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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