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Anna Boch was a Belgian painter, born in Saint-Vaast, Hainaut, in the 5th generation of the Boch family who made Ceramics since 1748 Her father Victor Boch operated the company Boch Freres and her uncle Eugen von Boch the company Villeroy & Boch.  Anna Boch participated in the Neo-Impressionist and Impressionnist movement. Her early works used a Pointillist technique, but she is best known for her Impressionist style. As a pupil of Isidore Verheyden, she was influenced by Théo van Rysselberghe. She was the only woman to be part of the Art Moovement Les XX. |
Anna Boch´s own paintings Anna Boch painted 913 paintings (as far as we know today)   Flowers    Stillife Paintings    Farm Houses   South of France more coming soon ... |
Besides her own paintings,
Anna Boch owned one of the most important collections of impressionist paintings of its time.
Thanks to her father´s ceramics business
and her moderate down to earth lifestyle she was financially well off, all her life.
This gave her the possibility to promote young artists,
including unknown Vincent van Gogh, who had no success
and whom she admired for his talent. She knew about him through her younger brother Eugene.
Vincent van Gogh was a friend of her brother Eugene Boch.
The portrait "The Poet" (Le peintre aux Etoiles) was done in September 1888 in the Yellow House in Arles.
Van Gogh paintings bought by Anna Boch
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La Seine à la Grand Jatte by Georges Seurat was one of several hundred
high profile paintings in Anna Boch´s collection.
Today the painting is in the Musee Royal de Beaux Arts in Brussels.
Anna Boch travelling and painting around the coasts of France
Anna Boch´s Heritage  Anna and her brother Eugen Boch in 1930. Most of the Anna Boch collection was sold after her death in 1936. In her will, she donated the money to pay for the retirement of poor artist friends. Some paintings were also donated to the Musees Royaux des Beaux Arts in Brussels.    140 paintings were left to Anna´s godchild, Ida van Haelewijn, daughter of the gardener Antoine van Haelewijn. In 1968 Anna´s great nephiew, Luitwin von Boch, a successful & visionary entrepreneur aquired the entire collection for a future Anna Boch Museum ... years ahead of his time.  In 1979 Luitwin von Boch opened the Museum of Ceramics where a very limited number of Anna Boch paintings could be seen next to ceramic treasures produced by the family for over 200 years.     The paintings remained in Ida van Haelewijn´s house until the end of her life in 1992. A permanent Anna Boch Exposition has open in april 2011 the above building in Mettlach / Germany .     opening night of the Anna Boch Exposition  Dr Thérèse Thomas, once hired by Luitwin von Boch to run the Museum of Ceramics in Mettlach, has a passion for Anna Boch. She collected uncountable information on her. Never discouraging Dr Thomas kept searching and followed up on any source to recuparate valuable and lost Information of the times of the Impressionists.  Catalogue Raisonne by Dr Thérèse Thomas |
Famous, historic Investments Anna Boch (1848 - 1936) and David Packard (1912-1996) never met, but both made history by making a historic investment. Both understood the value of something nobody else was able to see. Years ahead of their time ... investments requiring very little money that have become "priceless" today:  - Anna Boch bought The Red Vineyard painting on January 18 1890, the only painting Van Gogh sold during his lifetime, for 400 Francs (the equivalent of around $ 1600 in today´s values) Van Gogh died July 29 1890 and soon his paintings became valuable, more and more valuable, extremly valuable.  Today, 120 years later, Vincent van Gogh is the world´s most famous artist and The Red Vinyard, (if ever sold), might be the World´s most expensive painting (next to the also priceless Mona Lisa) the 7 most expensive Van Gogh paintings that have been sold:
see the List of the Most Expensive Painting  - David Packard registered the HP.com Internet Domain on March 3 1986 years ahead of his time ... for less than 100 $ It is the very first among the World´s shortest Internet Adresses ! In 1986 nobody knew about Internet. Internet started to become popular 8 years later, in 1984, with the launch of the website of the Whitehouse an initiative of the newly elected modern thinking President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore.  Today, 24 years later, the World has changed ... The value of the Internet Domain HP.com has become priceless. Not only priceless, every year the super simple HP.com helps generate several billion $ in Internet sales. David Packard understood that one of the keys to succes is simple, easy to understand marketing. With a spelling as complicated as, the full company name "Hewlett Packard.com" (called afer Bill Hewlett and himself, David Packard) he would never have become a World Leader in a Global Market. Today HP.com is the World´s largest Computer Manufacturer worth more than 50 billion $. Super Domains could be registered for a couple of Dollars in the very early years of the Internet (1986 - 1995) even much less than Van Gogh Vigne Rouge painting. Today these domains exceed the price of a Van Gogh painting, but most of the times their transaction remains a well kept secret. These might be the 7 most important Transaction (1998 - 2010):
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"The Red Vineard" bought by Anna Boch ... it´s first sale of only 900 van Gogh Paintings see also list of all van Gogh paintings |
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 see also 8th generation, Designer for Ceramics Helen von Boch.com  see also 8th generation, Painter Stephanie von Fuerstenberg  see also 9th generation, Painter Helene de Maneville  see also 9th generation, Photographer Michel von Boch.com |
This website was set up, a great great great nephew of Anna Boch, Ben Solms, 9th generation in the von Boch family, editor of different independant internet projects like VB.com Phonebook of the World.com, Hotels of the World.com or the Paris expo center Cremerie de Paris.com. The realisation of this website would have been impossible without the valuable help from Dr Thérèse Thomas and Beatrice von Boch.
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 This website Anna Boch.com would have been impossible without the help from Dr Thérèse Thomas  and from Beatrice von Boch.  see also Anna´s brother, 5th generation Eugene Boch.com |
Museums which show Anna Boch Paintings
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