Vincent Willem Van Gogh was born at Groot-Zundert in northern Brabant,
Holland on March 30th 1853. He got interested
in art by his first job, which was working at his uncle's gallery in 1869.
It was called the La Haye branch of the Goupil Gallery. Then in 1873
he was sent to the London branch. Just two years later he moved to
Paris and abandoned art and became a preacher in 1878. Only six years later
he went back to painting and became an artist and spent the last ten years
of his life painting 800 paintings and 850 drawings, which works out as
one painting every two days. In 1888 Van Gogh settled at Arles where
he painted more than 200 paintings in 15 months. Van Gogh only sold
1 painting during his lifetime called Red Vineyard at Arles, which made
him very depressed. In the last 70 days of his life he painted 70
paintings.
Different styles of paintings
There are many different styles of painting such as surrealism and flemish.
VanGogh
Started to paint realism then moved on to expressionism.
What he thought of his paintings
Van Gogh thought the painting Night Café was the ugliest painting he ever painted.
About his family.
Van Gogh’s farther was called Theodorus Van Gogh. His job was a Protestant pastor. His mother was called Anna Comelia. They had eight children and Vincent was the oldest. They were called Elizabeth, Theo, Wilhelmina and four more. In 1889 Van Gogh’s brother Theo married a lady called Johanna.
Why he cut his ear off
On the evening of 23rd December 1888 Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin had a
argument in which Van Gogh threatened Gauguin with a knife.
Later that evening he returned to the ‘Yellow House’ in Arles where he
lived and cut part of his left ear off. In the portraits of himself
he has got a bandage on his right ear. This is because he is painting
himself looking in the mirror.
Where and when he died
Vincent Van Gogh died on July, 27th 1890 by committing suicide.
He did this by shooting himself in the chest. Just six months later
his brother Theo died from lung disease. His father died from a stroke
on March, 26th 1885.