[citation needed] After completing the gymnasium in Winschoten, he left for Amsterdam to study at the Rijksacademie voor Beeldende Kunsten.
[citation needed] There he met Theo van Gogh, art dealer for Goupil & Cie, and his older brother Vincent.
[citation needed] After the latter left Paris for the South in the spring of 1888, Arnold was given a place in Theo's apartment on Rue Lepic.
Shortly afterwards he had a house built on the outskirts of the nearby village of Voorthuizen, in which he would continue to work on an extensive oeuvre until an old age, in order to be in the middle of nature as much as possible.
[citation needed] When Koning started studying at the Rijksacademie in 1880, the Dutch impressionism of the Hague School was the leading style.
Values of his paintings are starting to climb as his recognition and association with van Gogh has peaked collectors interest around the world.
Arnold Koning was listed as one member of a rare antique group photograph of Vincent van Gogh and friends that was auctioned in 2015 but did not hit its reserve of $136,000.
It appears to show the artist drinking with fellow post-Impressionists Paul Gauguin and Émile Bernard, among others, would be only the third confirmed photo of van Gogh to date.
[5] The Dutch database of the National Office for Art History Documentation provides information about the painter Arnold Koning.
Royal BDU Publishers, 2008[7] (Book cover translation) "Impressionists Arnold (1860-1945) and Edzard Koning (1869-1954) are well-known and beloved artists.
Arnold, partly influenced by his friendship and correspondence with Vincent van Gogh, left beautiful landscape paintings.
Their working life was characterized by a 'flight forwards', via Paris and The Hague, away from urbanization and industrialization and back to nature in the quiet Veluwe, near the estates along the IJssel, around Ede and Nunspeet, and finally in the Veluwse Voorthuizen to unwind.