Vincent van Gogh

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Vincent van Gogh

Artist's Name:

Vincent van Gogh

Preferred medium:

painting

birth year:

1853

Nationality:

City:

Auvers-sur-Oise

Vincent van Gogh - Profile

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 - 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist whose paintings influenced 20th century art. Many of his paintings-including his numerous self portraits, landscapes, portraits and sunflowers-are among the world's most recognizable and expensive works of art. Little appreciated during his lifetime, his reputation increased in the years after his death. Today, he is regarded as one of history's greatest artists and an important contributor to the foundations of modern art. His younger brother Theo continually provided financial and emotional support. Their lifelong friendship, and most of what is known of Vincent's thoughts and theories of art, is recorded in the hundreds of letters they began exchanging in August 1872. Van Gogh was anxious and unsettled for most of his life. He spent his early adulthood working for a firm of art dealers in The Hague, London and Paris, after which he taught in England. An early vocational aspiration was to become a pastor and preach the gospel, and he eventually worked as a missionary in a poor mining region in Belgium. In 1879, he began to sketch people from the local Belgian community drawing scenes from ordinary life. In 1880, he took formal art classes, which included the study of anatomy, still-life and landscape. He began to paint in 1882 with the encouragement of his cousin-in-law Anton Mauve. By 1885, he was living in Nuenen, where he painted his first major work, The Potato Eaters. At the time, his palette consisted mainly of sombre earth tones and showed no sign of the vivid coloration that distinguished his later work. In March 1886, he moved to Paris where he discovered the French Impressionists and made his artistic breakthrough. His work developed rapidly and grew brighter in color. He quickly developed a uniquely recognizable style, one fully realized by the time he departed for Arles in February 1888, having painted over 200 paintings. Van Gogh did not begin his career as an artist until he was about 27. During his last ten years he produced more than 2,000 pieces, including around 900 paintings as well as 1,100 drawings and sketches. Most of his best-known works were produced during his final two years, amid recurrent bouts of mental illness. He died at the age of 37 from a self inflicted gunshot wound. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

important exhibitions from Vincent van Gogh

Exhibition	Location	City	Country	Date
Van Gogh: Up Close	National Gallery of Canada	Ottawa	CA	25.05.2012

Vincent van Gogh Zwischen Erde und Himmel: Die Landschaften	Kunstmuseum Basel	Basel	CH	26.04.2009

The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters	Royal Academy of Arts	London	GB	23.01.2010

Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore	The Jewish Museum of New York	New York	US	03.07.2011

Vincent van Gogh's Self-Portrait from the National Gallery of Art	Norton Museum of Art	West Palm Beach	US	04.09.2010

MOCA's First Thirty Years	The Museum of Modern Art - Grand Avenue - MOCA	Los Angeles	US	15.11.2009

Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet	Kunsthaus Zürich	Zürich	CH	12.02.2010

Escritos de artistas	Museu Serralves	Porto	PL	12.07.2008

Mantegna to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Courtauld Gallery	The Frick Collection	New York	US	02.10.2012

1912 - Mission Moderne	Wallraf-Richartz-Museum	Köln	DE	31.08.2012

WHAT'S ON - current exhibitions with Vincent van Gogh

Meisterwerke der Graphischen Sammlung

02/03/2012 - 07/10/2012
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein Albrecht Dürer Vincent van Gogh Lucas Cranach Martin Schongauer Jan van Goyen Marcantonio Raimondi

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