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Birth of a Artist
Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on 30 March 1853 in Groot-Zundert, a village close to Breda in the province of North Brabant in the south of the Netherlands, a predominantly Catholic area. He was the oldest child of Theodorus van Gogh, a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and Anna Cornelia Carbentus. Vincent was given the name of his grandfather, and of a brother stillborn exactly a year before his birth. -
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Van Gogh Timeline
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Introduction to art
Constantijn C. Huysmans, a successful artist in Paris, taught van Gogh to draw at the school and advocated a systematic approach to the subject. Vincent's interest in art began at an early age. He began to draw as a child and continued making drawings throughout the years leading to his decision to become an artist. Though well-done and expressive,[16] his early drawings do not approach the intensity he developed in his later work.[17] In March 1868, van Gogh abruptly left school and returned ho -
Early life
As a child, Vincent was serious, silent and thoughtful. However there is not much information during the 13 years of his life since his birth,however, he went school . -
emerging artist
Van Gogh then devotes himself to drawing and painting in Nuenen and Antwerp and creates major works "The Potato Eaters" and the "Still Life..." series in art. -
Paris
Van Gogh traveled to Paris in March 1886, where he shared Theo's Rue Laval apartment on Montmartre, to study at Fernand Cormon's studio. In June, they took a larger apartment further uphill, at 54 Rue Lepic. Because the brothers had no need to write letters to communicate, little is known about van Gogh's stay in Paris, and less is known about this time than earlier or later periods of his life.In Paris he painted portraits of friends and acquaintances,still-life paintings, and of Le Moulin also -
Artistic breakthrough and final years
Van Gogh moved to Arles hoping for refuge; at the time he was ill from drink and suffering from smoker's cough.He was enchanted by the local landscape and light. His works from the period are richly draped in yellow, ultramarine and mauve. His portrayals of the Arles landscape are informed by his Dutch upbringing; the patchwork of fields and avenues appear flat and lack perspective, but excel in their intensity of color. -
Death
Shortly after being released from the hospital, van Gogh suffered a severe setback in December 1889 when his bouts of illness became more pronounced, followed in February 1890 by another "crisis that was worse than all the preceding ones."It is widely understood that on 27 July 1890, aged 37, van Gogh shot himself in the chest with a revolver. Where he was when he shot himself is unclear.
