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van gogh's birth
Zundert, Holland -
started working for an art dealer in the Hague
at the age of 16 { painting: the iron mill in the hague 1882 } -
took up painting in earnest
after following his beloved brother theo's suggestion.
[ for a brief period Vincent took painting
lessons from Anton Mauve in Hague. ] -
moved to paris with theo
the brothers shared a house on monmartre.
- there he met the painters Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Bernard, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Paul Gauguin.
- he discovered impressionism -
van gogh's accident and his stay in the asylum
having a nervous temperament, van gogh ended up cutting a portion of his own ear lobe off.
- he was sent to the asylum in Saint-Remy suffering with depression.
- while there, he painted some 150 paintings, one of which is ''starry night''. -
vincent left the clinic and went to a psysician
after leaving the asylum, vincent went to the physician Paul Gachet, in Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris, where he was closer to Theo, who had recently married.
{ painting; dr gachet } -
van gogh's death
his depression had aggravated and that's why it is believed that vincent shot himself in the chest, at the age of 37. he died two days later. - his last words were; ''the sadness will last forever''.
{ his last of the 900 paintings; wheatfield with crows }
