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     Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was a Dutch painter. In 1869, the 16-year-old Vincent van Gogh apprenticed as an art dealer in The Hague. At the end of his apprenticeship, he was transferred to the company's London branch, where a deep psychological crisis caused by an unhappy love affair, however, ruined his further career and led him into religious musings. After a wandering life with various jobs, including a time as a lay preacher for the workers in the poor Belgian mining district of Borinage, van Gogh decided in the early 1880s to devote himself to painting. In the years 1886-1887, Van Gogh stayed in Paris, where he lived with his brother Theo van Gogh (1857-1891). While Vincent had drawn inspiration from Dutch art in the previous years, especially Rembrandt, he now came into inspiring close contact with the French art scene. Through his brother, he had the opportunity to see the works of the Impressionists. In his paintings, Van Gogh now began to use the rainbow palette of Impressionism, combined with a form and technique that can almost be characterized as a unique expressive variant of the pointillism of the Neo-Impressionists. At the beginning of 1888, Van Gogh moved to Arles in Provence. During this time, a number of uniquely intense pictures were created, most often painted in a state of intoxication-like exaltation. For a year he was admitted to the psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy, where in his lucid moments he painted some of his strongest and most moving pictures. In 1890, Van Gogh briefly resided in Auvers-sur-Oise, where he was supervised daily by a doctor. However, his mental imbalance led to new crises, and in July the artist chose to take his own life. Van Gogh's art is today regarded as a crucial precursor to 20th-century expressionism



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