Nuenen

Nuenen is a town in the municipality of Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten, in The Netherlands.

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Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten - The Netherlands

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Vincent van Gogh resided there from 1883-1885. At least one of his paintings features a scene in the town ? Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen (Het uitgaan van de hervormde kerk te Nuenen) which was stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in December 2002. His painting The Potato Eaters was created whilst he lived in Nuenen, and there is a street named after it in the town.

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Vincent van Gogh - 1883 - 1885 - Reformed Church - Van Gogh Museum - 2002 - The Potato Eaters

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Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist, died here on August 6, 2002.

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Edsger Dijkstra - Computer scientist - August - 2002

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