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Vicent Van Gogh is born in The Netherlands.
He was the son of Theodorus van Gogh, a preacher, and Anna Cornelia Carbentus. -
Vincent attends school in the Netherlands.
He displayed no signs of having the unique artistic ability which flourished later. -
Vincent starts to work
Vincent lands a job at Goupil & Cie, an art dealership which has various galleries dotted around Europe. -
Love sorrow
Vincent is transferred to London and meets a landlady and her daughter in south London. He falls in love with the daughter, but his feelings are not reciprocated. -
Studies
Vincent goes to Brussels to study art. -
Vincent paints The Potato Eaters
One of his most famous works. -
Vincent in Paris
Vincent moves to Paris he meets artists like Camille Pissarro and Edgar Degas -
Vincent moves to Arles
His plan is to establish an artist's colony to find inspiration and enjoy life, in which he failed. -
Van Gogh cuts off his left ear.
Gauguin and van Gogh have a fight, he cutts his ear and left blood so later the cops assumed he was dead and arrested Gauguin. -
Van Gogh paints Starry Night in a mental hospital
Van Gogh voluntarily admits himself to the St Remy asylum. An there paints A Starry Night -
Out of the hospital
Van Gogh leaves the St Remy asylum and travels to Auvers-sur-Oise, a small village close to Paris. -
Vicent suicide
Van Gogh goes to paint wheatfields, but shoots himself in the chest*. He staggers back to his lodgings but dies two days later.
