Vincent van Gogh
Self-portrait (1887)
Birth nameVincent Willem van Gogh
Born
30 March1853(1853-03-30)
Zundert, The Netherlands
Died
29 July1890
(aged 37)
Auvers-sur-Oise, France
Nationality
Dutch
Field
Painter
Movement
Post-Impressionism
Famous works
The Potato Eaters,
Self-portrait (1887)
Birth nameVincent Willem van Gogh
Born
30 March1853(1853-03-30)
Zundert, The Netherlands
Died
29 July1890
(aged 37)
Auvers-sur-Oise, France
Nationality
Dutch
Field
Painter
Movement
Post-Impressionism
Famous works
The Potato Eaters,
Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Irises, Portrait of Dr. Gachet
Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March1853 – 29 July1890) was a DutchPost-Impressionist artist. His paintings and drawings include some of the world's best known, most popular and most expensive pieces.
Van Gogh spent his early life working for a firm of art dealers. After a brief spell as a teacher, he became a missionary worker in a very poor mining region. He did not embark upon a career as an artist until 1880. Initially, van Gogh worked only with sombre colours, until he encountered Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism in Paris. He incorporated their brighter colours and style of painting into a uniquely recognizable style, which was fully developed during the time he spent at Arles, France. He produced more than 2,000 works, including around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches, during the last ten years of his life. Most of his best-known works were produced in the final two years of his life, during which time he cut off part of his left ear following a breakdown in his friendship with Paul Gauguin. After this he suffered recurrent bouts of mental illness, which led to his suicide.
The central figure in Van Gogh's life was his brother Theo, who continually and selflessly provided financial support. Their lifelong friendship is documented in numerous letters they exchanged from August 1872 onwards. Van Gogh is a pioneer of what came to be known as Expressionism. He had an enormous influence on 20th century art, especially on the Fauves and German Expressionists.
Van Gogh spent his early life working for a firm of art dealers. After a brief spell as a teacher, he became a missionary worker in a very poor mining region. He did not embark upon a career as an artist until 1880. Initially, van Gogh worked only with sombre colours, until he encountered Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism in Paris. He incorporated their brighter colours and style of painting into a uniquely recognizable style, which was fully developed during the time he spent at Arles, France. He produced more than 2,000 works, including around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches, during the last ten years of his life. Most of his best-known works were produced in the final two years of his life, during which time he cut off part of his left ear following a breakdown in his friendship with Paul Gauguin. After this he suffered recurrent bouts of mental illness, which led to his suicide.
The central figure in Van Gogh's life was his brother Theo, who continually and selflessly provided financial support. Their lifelong friendship is documented in numerous letters they exchanged from August 1872 onwards. Van Gogh is a pioneer of what came to be known as Expressionism. He had an enormous influence on 20th century art, especially on the Fauves and German Expressionists.
The house where Van Gogh stayed in Cuesmes in 1880; it was while living here that he decided to become an artist.
Vincent van Gogh: View from his atelier in The Hague, watercolour
The Potato Eaters (1885)
Skull with a Burning Cigarette , oil on canvas, 1885.
Vincent van Gogh, pastel drawing by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Starry Night, June 1889 (The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Portrait of Dr. Gachet was sold for 2.5 million US dollars, current whereabouts unknown
The Red Vineyard (November 1888), Pushkin Museum, Moscow). Sold to Anna Boch, 1890.
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