Genneper watermolen

Watermills were once an obsession of Vincent van Gogh. In the fall of 1884 he made several drawings and paintings of Eindhoven's Genneper watermill, at a time when he resided in Nuenen and the North Brabant countryside was a source of inspiration to him. Of course, back then there was no electric streetlights there, it was just poor rural land and Eindhoven was a small village. Things changed dramatically after Gerard and Frederik Philips established a small lamp factory there in 1891. Luckily the Genneper watermolen survived these changes, and this is how it looks like today, shown at dusk, lit by a 70 W sodium streetlight, with some LEDs in the background. Had van Gogh seen such a scene, there is no doubt he would have come up with a very interesting and unique vision for his paintings of this place.