Nuenen

Nuenen is a town in the municipality of Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten, in 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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Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist, died here on August 6, 2002.

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Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten: Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten is a municipality consisting of the larger village of Nuenen and two adjacent smaller ones. It is located in the province of Noord-Brabant, about 10 km east of Eindhoven, the 5th largest city in the Netherlands. From being a small farmers town of less than 1000 inhabita...

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