Dutch painter (1853–1890)
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A Dutch painter who produced 2,100 works in a decade—most in his final two years—then shot himself at 37. Died unknown, became the template for the tortured genius.
Born into an upper-middle-class Dutch family in 1853, van Gogh worked as an art dealer before a transfer to London left him depressed. He turned to religion, spent time as a Protestant missionary in Belgium, then drifted in ill health until taking up painting in 1881, supported financially by his brother Theo. His early peasant scenes and still lifes were dark; after moving to Paris in 1886 and meeting the avant-garde, his palette exploded. In Arles in 1888 he painted wheat fields, olive trees, sunflowers—bold, impulsive, the foundations of modern art. Psychotic episodes followed: he severed p…
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Text: Psalm 119:19. I am a stranger on the earth, hide not Thy command ments from me. Are we what we dreamt we should be? No, but still the sorrows of life..
..Our life is a pilgrim's progress. I once saw a very beautiful picture: it was a landscape at evening.
If I should find something it will probably be a position between clergy man and missionary in the suburbs of London among the working people. Do not speak to anybody about it yet.
Theo, your brother has preached for the first time last Sunday in God's dwelling..
My dear Theo, Feeling, even a fine feeling, for the beauties of nature isn't the same as religious feeling, although I believe that the two are closely connected.
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