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Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who lived from the 30th of March 1853 to the 29th of July 1890. He created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, known for bold colours and dramatic, impulsive brushwork. He was unsuccessful in his lifetime and became famous after his death as the quintessential misunderstood genius.
Vincent van Gogh shot himself in the chest with a revolver on the 27th of July 1890, aged 37. The bullet was deflected by a rib, and he walked back to the Auberge Ravoux, where two doctors attended him. He died in the early hours of the 29th of July from an infection resulting from the wound.
Vincent van Gogh severed his left ear with a razor on the evening of the 23rd of December 1888, after an altercation linked to mounting tension with Paul Gauguin in the Yellow House in Arles. He wrapped the ear in paper and gave it to a young woman at a brothel he frequented. The hospital diagnosed acute mania with generalised delirium.
Theo van Gogh was Vincent's younger brother, an art dealer who provided him with financial and emotional support and access to the contemporary art scene. The two exchanged hundreds of letters from 1872 until 1890, with more than 600 surviving from Vincent to Theo. Theo died on the 25th of January 1891, only six months after Vincent.
Vincent van Gogh's named works include The Potato Eaters, The Night Cafe, Bedroom in Arles, Starry Night Over the Rhone, The Starry Night, multiple versions of Sunflowers, and Wheatfield with Crows. He painted series of olive trees, cypresses, wheat fields, and orchards, along with more than 43 self-portraits between 1885 and 1889.
Vincent van Gogh was born in Groot-Zundert in the Netherlands and worked across Europe, including The Hague, Nuenen, Antwerp, and Paris. He moved to Arles in the south of France in February 1888, entered an asylum at Saint-Remy-de-Provence, and spent his final months in Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris.