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Vincent van Gogh was born in Zundert, Holland.
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At age 16 Vincent started to work for an art
dealer in The Hague. -
Vincent van Gogh followed his brother
Theo’s suggestion and took up painting in
earnest. -
Vincent van Gogh went
to Paris, where he moved in with his
brother Theo -
He decided to go south to Arles where he hoped
his friends would join him and help found a
school of art. Gauguin did join him but with
disastrous results. Near the end of ________, an
incident led Gauguin to ultimately leave Arles,
after a number of arguments with Vincent. Van
Gogh pursued him with an open razor, was
stopped by Gauguin, but ended up cutting a
portion of his own ear lobe off. -
The only painting
he sold during his lifetime, ‘The Red Vineyard’,
was created in ________ -
Van Gogh then began to alternate between
fits of madness and lucidity and was sent to the
asylum in Saint-Remy suffering with depression.
He spent much time in the asylum, though it was
later believed that he suffered from epilepsy.
While there he painted some 150 paintings. His
most famous work The Starry Night was painted
while staying in the asylum. -
On July 27 of the
same year, at the age of 37, after a fit of painting
activity, van Gogh shot himself in the chest. He
died two days later, with Theo at his side, who
reported his last words as "The sadness will
last forever" -
In May _________ Vincent van
Gogh left the clinic and went to the physician
Paul Gachet, in Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris,
where he was closer to Theo, who had recently
married. Here van Gogh created the portrait of
the melan cholic “Dr. Gachet”.