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Vincent Van Gogh
Dutch Post-Impressionist Painter, 1853-1890
Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 ?C 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. Some of his paintings are now among the world's best known, most popular and expensive works of art.
Van Gogh spent his early adult 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.
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Painting ID:: 23458
Head of a Peasant Woman with Dark Cap (nn040
Nuenen,March 1885
Oil on canvas on panel
38.5x26.5cm
f 134 jh 684
Paris,Musee d'Orsay
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Painting ID:: 23459
Head of a Peasant Woman with White Cap (nn04)
Nuenen,March 1855
Oil on panel
41x31.5cm
f 81,jh 695
Berne,Kunstmuseum Bern
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Painting ID:: 23460
Head of a Peasant Woman with White Cap (nn04)
Nuenen,March 1885
Oil on canvas on pnel
47x34.5cm
f 85a,jh 694
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Painting ID:: 23461
Head of a Peasant Woman with White Cap (nn04)
Nuenen,April 1885
Oil on canvas on cardboard
47.5x35.5cm
f 140,jh 745
Edinburgh,National Gallery of Scotland
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Painting ID:: 23462
The Potato Eaters (nn04)
Nuenen,April 1885
Oil on canvas
81.5x114.5cm
Amsterdam,Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh,Vincent van Gogh Foundation
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Vincent Van Gogh
Dutch Post-Impressionist Painter, 1853-1890
Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 ?C 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. Some of his paintings are now among the world's best known, most popular and expensive works of art.
Van Gogh spent his early adult 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.
. Related Artists to Vincent Van Gogh: | alexis de tocqueville | John Masey Wright | Gherardo Starnina | William Hogarth | Giuseppe Benassai |
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