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Vincent Van Gogh Atlas (The) by Nienke Denekamp and Rene van Blerk

Title: Vincent Van Gogh Atlas (The)

Author: Nienke Denekamp and Rene van Blerk

Translator: Laura Watkinson

Illustrator: Geert Gratama

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Date Published: 2024

Format: Hardback

Genre:

Book Category: Non Fiction

Age Range: 9-11

Original Title: First published in Dutch by Rubinstein Publishing B.V., Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2022

Country of Origin: Netherlands

Vincent Van Gogh Atlas (The)

by Nienke Denekamp and Rene van Blerk
Age Range: 9-11

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) is one of the world’s most famous artists. Unlike a conventional biography, The Vincent Van Gogh Atlas is a well-crafted narrative non-fiction book which is unique in its approach providing a truly illustrative biographical account that illuminates Van Gogh’s life in a way that perhaps text on its own cannot. Van Gogh’s restlessness, his zest for constantly being on the move and, after trying out other occupations, his desire to become an artist are all captured in this compelling and fascinating book.

As a result of the expansion of the railway system in Europe during the late 19th century, Van Gogh travelled thousands of miles during his lifetime. Throughout his short life, he lived and worked in more than twenty different locations. The Dutch authors Nienke Denekamp and René van Blerk have cleverly traced Van Gogh’s travels across Europe from “Z-A”, starting in Zundert in the southern Netherlands where he was born and ending in Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris where he died.

Van Gogh lived in both the rural countryside and bustling cities, such as London or Paris, and everywhere he went he recorded his thoughts and feelings in his letters to his brother Theo. The lively, chatty narrative, translated by Laura Watkinson, with its short, concise paragraphs is combined with hand-drawn maps and dotted lines that connect to contemporary photographs and reproductions of Van Gogh’s sketches, drawings and paintings as well as copies of his letters and notes. The table of contents provides a comprehensive timeline and a map charting where the artist went creating a clear outline of his life.

Although produced for a younger audience the authors do not avoid dealing with the artist’s traumatic final years writing about it sensitively. The black pen and ink, watercolour artwork by Geert Gratama is dynamic and vibrant having a comic-style feel together with a gentle humour that perfectly complements the narrative.

This is an irresistible biography with a difference and one that will appeal to young readers as well as adults.

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