Vincent van Gogh - Rosenstiel's · PDF fileVincent van Gogh - ... The Cafe Terrace, Place Du Forum, Arles ... Title: The Starry Night, June 1889 Ref: RH0936 Ref: Title: Self-Portrait
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Vincent van Gogh - was born in 1853 and took up painting around 1880 after working as an art dealer,
a teacher and a missionary. Van Gogh travelled to Paris in 1886 and studied at Cormon’s atelier, where he met Toulouse-Lautrec and Emile Bernard. There he absorbed Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism which, combined with his admiration for Japanese prints, encouraged him to adopt an increasingly brilliant palette and to create the more strongly patterned compositions which made him, along with Cezanne and Gauguin, the greatest of the Post-Impressionist artists. His mental health had always been suspect (he cut off part of his left ear during an argument with Gauguin) and he suffered a breakdown, subsequently spending a year living in the hospital at St Remy. After leaving the hospital van Gogh moved to Auvers in Northern France, where he killed himself in July 1890. He sold only one painting during his lifetime.