Finally, in 1877 he got a job in a bookstore in Dordrecht until he decided to pursue his father's career. Van Gogh becomes depressed, suffers repeated nervous breakdowns, and spends long periods of loneliness. Then, in December, he goes to Etten the same year, where he meets his family, but his family relationships are complex he only feels understood by Theo, his younger brother. He goes to England, where he accepts the teacher position at a small-town elementary school. However, in April 1876, after being upset with his clients, he was dismissed from the Goupil group. In 1875, van Gogh obtained his transfer to Paris, where he thought he could free himself from all his frustrations. Then he goes to London, always at the service of the gallery. After three years, he is sent to Brussels, where he spends two years.
In 1869 he entered a local boarding school.Īt 16, Van Gogh went to The Hague to work with his uncle, who opened the branch of Galeria Goupil, an important company that sold works and books. The son of a Calvinist pastor was a rebellious and withdrawn child. Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890) was born in Zundert, a small Dutch village, on March 30, 1853. Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was an influential Dutch painter, one of the most outstanding representatives of post-impressionist painting. Today he is universally seen as one of the great forerunners of 20th century painting, and one of the tragic masters of art. Van Gogh craved recognition during his lifetime but was denied it till after his self-inflicted death. His truest friend was his brother Theo, who supported him unstintingly throughout and followed him to the grave just six months later.This richly illustrated study by two experts on van Gogh follows the artist from the early gloom-laden paintings in which he captured the misery of peasants and workers in his home parts, through the bright and colourful paintings he did in Paris, to the work of his final years under a southern sun in Arles, where he at last found the light that produced the unmistakable van Gogh style.At Arles, Saint-Remy and Auvers-sur-Oise, in the feverish burst of creative energy that marked the last two and a half years of his life, he produced the 463 paintings on which his immortality rests. And he has long been recognised as one of the greatest modern artists.Van Gogh, who followed a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairing and self-destructive man his whole life long. Van Gogh did indeed go at least to the brink of insanity.
The man was Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), a vicar's son born at Groot-Zundert near Breda in Holland, who at that time was struggling to find buyers for his paintings. "This man will either go insane or leave us all far behind," prophesied the great Impressionist Camille Pissarro.
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