Artist "Vincent van Gogh"

More about the Artist "Vincent van Gogh"

Vincent Willem van Gogh (* March 30, 1853 in Groot-Zundert; † July 29, 1890 in Auvers-sur-Oise) was a Dutch painter and draftsman. He is considered one of the founders of modern painting. As a student, he received painting and drawing lessons from Constant Cornelis Huijsmans, and later from his cousin Anton Mauve. According to the knowledge of 2021, he left over 900 paintings and over 1000 drawings.

The paintings were mostly done in the last ten years of his life. Vincent van Gogh kept an extensive correspondence, especially with his brother Theo van Gogh, the dealer of his paintings, which contains a wealth of references to his painterly work and is itself of literary rank.

The teenager's first drawings can be found there, and Vincent sketched out many of the paintings in his letters to Theo.