Vincent Willem Van Gogh, of Groot-Zundert, France, was born on March 30, 1853, near the southern Netherlands. He was noted as a troubled, erratic painter by David Sweetman, in his book Van Gogh: His Life and His Times. Anna Cornelia Carbentus and Theodrus van Gogh were the parents of this soon to be phenomenon, and focused their occupations around religion. Theodrus, Cor, Elizabeth, Anna, and Willemina were van Gogh’s siblings. The van Gogh unity held the common name “Vincent” throughout generations of their family. Other than his grandfather and great uncle, one year before van Gogh’s birth, a stillborn with his name was born, making him the replacement child. Art and religion was effortlessly threaded throughout his family, his great uncle being a sculptor successful in France, his uncles working as art dealers, and his father serving as a minister. Van Gogh didn’t wish to follow traditional schooling, and was sent to a Jan Povily boarding school in Zevenbergen in 1864. There he learned German, French, and English. Returning home to his family in France, he goes to the King Willem II secondary school. He spent one and a half years there, and left formal schooling around March of 1868, at the age of fifteen. (Van Gogh Museum) After discontinuing school, van Gogh returns home, and soon after becomes an art dealer for the firm Goupil & Cie., in the Hague. Recalling the fact that much of his family was associated in the business of art, van Gogh simply added to the legend. Theo, van Gogh’s favorite brother, worked as an art dealer himself, and had much thanks towards his choice of work. Seven years of his life was there working until 1873. He was then transferred to London in the same line of work, and had his firs... ... middle of paper ... ...mpagna-senza-tempo-citta-moderna-vittoriano-rome/> Gallagher, Daniel B. Vincent Van Gogh: Capagna Senza Tempo. 2011. Berkshire Review. 29 Apr. 2011 Vincent Van Gogh Biography. 2011. Advameg. 19 Apr. 2011 Blumer, Dietrich. The Illness of Vincent Van Gogh. 2011. American Psychiatric Association. 20 Apr. 2011 Brooks, David. The Vincent Van Gogh Gallery. 2011. Van Gogh Gallery. 2 May 2011 Baseleer, Richard. Letter from Dr Mark Edo Tralbaut to n/a. 2011. Web Exhibits. 2 May 2011
Vincent Van Gogh (30 M arch 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch post-impressionist painter. Unpopular at his time but still his own worst critic, he suffered from painful anxiety and mental illness, and died at the age of 37.
Vincent went to a village school for the first few years of his life, but his parents soon hired a governess. A few years later, they decided once again to change Vincent's schooling, and sent him Mr. Provily's school in a nearby town when he was eleven (2 Greenberg p 7). By thirteen, he was studying Dutch, German, French, and English, along with history, geography, botany, zoology, calligraphy, arithmetic, gymnastics, and drawing; but by March of his fifteenth year, he returned home without finishing school (Muhlberger p 7).
Vincent Willem van Gogh was born in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands on March 30, 1853. He was born into a middle class family that sometimes struggled financially. His grandfather was a famous preacher and his father was a minister so religion was pretty important within his family. The other passion within the family was art. His mother was an artist and three of his uncles and later his brother were art dealers. He got his first job at age 15, at his uncle’s art dealership. The fact that Vincent’s family was struggling at this time gave him the responsibility to leave school and go to work. Despite his family 's misfortune, van Gogh was fluent in 4 languages and his concern with art and religion kept growing. At the age of 20, he was transferred to the Goupil Gallery in London. It was there that he fell in love with art and English culture. He visited galleries in his spare time and in many aspects increased his understanding as a whole. In this period of time he started to fall in love with a woman named Eugenie Loyer. Vincent was prepared to ask her to marry him, but Eugenie didn’t feel the same as he did so she rejected the proposal and this caused van Gogh to suffer a mental breakdown. In this time he turned to God and threw away all unnecessary possessions except for the bible. He was fired from the Gallery for telling the customers “not to buy the worthless art.” Vincent then started teaching at a Methodist school and preached on the side a little. This was the first time in his life where he started to contemplate becoming a minister. He studied for a year planing to take the entrance exam to become a minister at the School of Theology in Amsterdam. He was denied entrance after refusing to take the Latin exam calling it a “de...
Heenk, Liesbeth. Secrets of Van Gogh 2: Van Gogh’s Inner Struggle. Amsterdam: Amersterdam, 2013. Ebook.
1.Van Gogh attended a boarding school in Zevenbergen from when he was ten to twelve.
Art historian Griselda Pollock, in her documentary entitled The Legend of van Gogh, stated that ‘there are several van Goghs.’ To agree or disagree with this statement, one must firstly understand the point Pollock is attempting to get across. One could interpret this opinion as meaning that there are various artistic styles and several facets of van Gogh’s life that can be critically analysed; having this understanding of Pollock’s attitude toward van Gogh, it would be difficult not to agree with her.
Van Gogh, being the son of a Lutheran minister, was very much drawn toward religion. Van Gogh decided to prepare himself for ministry by training in the study of theology. He failed at the courses and could not be the minister he hoped to become. Even though he failed the courses, he still had the desire to be a minister. His superiors sent him as a lay missionary to Belgium instead. There he wanted to be like his father and help out the unfortunates as a preacher. He tried to fight poverty through the teachings of Christ. Van Gogh's mission had to be discontinued. His approach to fighting poverty did not make his superiors happy. In 1879, he moved to his father's home in Ettan and stayed a while. He then left Ettan and went to The Hague.
Vincent Van Gogh was born in Holland in 1853 and died in an asylum at saint-Remy in 1890. As his father was a minister he was brought up in very religious and cultured surroundings and was a man of deep religious belief. Van Gogh tried many jobs unsuccessfully and his career as an artist lasted only 10 years from 1880 – 1890. In 1886 Van Gogh moved to Paris to stay with his brother Theo, with whom he had a very close relationship and whose unfailing financial support allowed Van Gogh to devote himself entirely to painting. Theo was an art dealer and through him Vincent met the impressionists Pissarro, Monet and Gauguin. The influences of these men caused him to move away from more formal painting, to experiment with, and develop, new techniques, to lighten the colours he used and to paint in the short brush strokes of the Impressionists. As well as this he was also influenced to paint using tubes, enabling him to paint ‘en plein air’. All things Japanese were very fashionable in Paris at the time and Van Gogh copied the style of Japanese prints in their use of strong outlines and large flat areas of colour, visible in the backgrounds of some of his portraits. Van Gogh moved to Arles in the south of France in February 1888; this was his ‘golden year’. He loved Arles and the bright light which seemed very beautiful to him. While there, Van Gogh lived in ‘The Yellow House’ and later when he invited Gauguin to stay he decorated his room in a series of his famous yellow sunflowers.
Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in the rectory of Zundert in Barbant (Burra). His father was a soft-spoken Dutch clergyman. The only thing Van Gogh got from his father, was the desire to be involved in the family church. Even at an early age, Vincent showed artistic talent but neither he nor his parents imagined that painting would take him where it did later in life. One of his first jobs came at the age of sixteen, as an art dealer’s assistant. He went to work for Goupil and Company, an art gallery where an uncle had been working for some time. Three of his father’s brothers were art dealers, and he was christened after the most distinguished of his uncles, who was manager of the Hague branch of the famous Goupil Galleries (Meier-Graefe). His parents were poor, so his rich uncle offered to take him ...
The life span of 37 years saw Vincent Willem van Gogh (Vincent) in creating beautiful works he dearly loved. Painting was an avenue, which allowed him to express his inner thoughts or vent his struggles. My decision to research on Vincent’s painting, Starry Night (1889) came with the inspiration from Don Mclean’s Song, Starry Starry Night where his lyrics spoke about Vincent’s life that further intrigued me in writing this paper.
In 1885 Vincent’s father died (ArtBook: Van Gogh; A profound and tormented genius—his life in paintings, 1998).
Vincent Van Gogh is one of the world’s greatest and most well-known artists, but when he was alive he considered himself to be a complete failure. It was not until after he died that Van Gogh’s paintings received the recognition they deserved. Today he is thought to be the second best Dutch artist, after Rembrandt. Born in 1853, he was one of the biggest artistic influences of the 19th century. Vincent Van Gogh created a new era of art, he learned to use art to escape his mental illness, and he still continues to inspire artists over 100 years later.
Vincent van Gogh is considered one of the greatest dutch painters after Rembrandt. Even though he remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life, just one of his paintings today in auction(the famous Starry Night) is worth over 80 million dollars in auction. In just over a decade Vincent created approximately 2100 paintings, including 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. All of his paintings consist of highly expressive and dramatic brush work which contributed to the inspiration of modern art today. Although is paintings are sold for millions of dollars all over the world today, he only sold one painting in his life time and became famous after his suicide at age 37. His suicide was after years of his
Van Gogh, V. W. Memoir of J. Van Gogh-Bonger. The Vincent van Gogh Gallery. David
The “world’s most beloved Dutch Artist” Vincent Van Gogh who was born on the 30thof March in 1853 in the Netherlands and sadly died in Auvers-sur-Oise France July the 29th 1890. During Vincent’s Van Gogh’s life his paintings never got the recognition they deserved, only after his death did people start to recognise the quality of his work.