Photo Vincent van Gogh turns out to be the Theo Inner Brother

This is what the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam announced this afternoon. The discovery was made by Belgian researcher Yves Vasseur and experts from the Van Gogh Museum. Zeno Gerardts, professor of forensic data at the computer institute of the University of Amsterdam, confirmed with great probability the results of their research. ", Says Axel Rüger, director of the Van Gogh Museum." We have now, as before 1957, when Theo's portrait was first presented as a Vincent weather vane, an image of 19-year-old Vincent van Gogh. "

Since 2014, there have already been serious doubts about the sepia photo taken by the Brussels photographer Balduin Schwarz In the VPRO Fotostudio De Jong program, the two photographs were used as comparison material for a third photograph. They have been compared to experimental digital technology It has already been suggested that the so-called 13-year-old boy and the 19-year-old boy would not be the same person.Additional investigations have already shown that the older boy was of all Vincent way.

Coincidence

Yves Vasseur discovered by chance that it was three years ago that photographer Balduin Schwarz had not opened his photo studio at B Brussels before 1870. "I realized that Vincent was then over 13 and I seriously wondered if he could be the boy represented. In collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum, I began to deepen my research. "

Given the strong similarities between the two men, one quickly thought of a close family member, Vincent's youngest brother, Theo, who, like him, had bright blond hair, but many blue eyes. more clear, was the first to be thought of. "This theory was confirmed because it is certain that Theo lived in Brussels for some time in 1873 and that his letters show that he was photographed in February that year, "says Vasseur.