Cafe Terrace at Night

The Café Terrace at Night ( frz.Terrasse du café le soir or Café Terrace on the Place du Forum ) is a painting by Vincent van Gogh that he painted in Arles, France in September, 1888. The painting is painted with oil colors on linen and measures 81 × 65.5 cm. Today it hangs in the Kröller -Müller Museum, Otterlo (The Netherlands ).

Drawn by van Gogh's impressions of southern France, created a complete new image formation. He uses, for example, an unusual perspective for him. It is the first of many with a starry background. Thus emerged the theme of the night sky, for example, in September 1888 also painted Starry Night over the Rhone (French étoilée Nuit sur ​​le Rhône) and in the resulting June 1889 Starry Night ( Nuit French étoilée ).

The Café Terrace on the evening should not Night Cafe (Fr. le café de nuit ) be confused with Van Gogh's paintings.

The cafe shown in the photo on the Place du Forum, Arles was rebuilt in the 1990s in order to accurately reflect the view of van Gogh's picture.

The café in the summer of 2004