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Vincent Van Gogh

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Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890) was active/lived in Belgium, France.  Vincent Van Gogh is known for Portrait, self-portrait, still life, sunflower, landscape painting.

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a major Post-Impressionist painter.  He was a Dutch artist whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art.  His output includes portraits, self portraits, landscapes and still lifes of cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers.  Van Gogh drew as a child but did not paint until his late twenties; he completed many of his best-known works during the last two years of his life.  In just over a decade he produced more than 2,100 artworks, including 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches and prints.

Van Gogh was born to upper middle class parents and spent his early adulthood working for a firm of art dealers.  He traveled between The Hague, London and Paris, after which he taught in England at Isleworth and Ramsgate.  He was deeply religious as a younger man and aspired to be a pastor.  From 1879 he worked as a missionary in a mining region in Belgium where he began to sketch peop   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 43267 characters.]  Artist bio

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.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Vincent Van Gogh available:    Claude Monet,  Alfred Sisley,  Paul Cezanne,  Max Beckmann,  Theo (Christian Emil Kupper) van Doesburg,  Kurt Schwitters,  Paul Gauguin,  Paul Serusier,  Wassily Vasilievich Kandinsky,  Egon Schiele,  Piet Cornelis Mondrian,  Gino Severini,  Camille Pissarro,  Alberto Giacometti,  Amedeo Modigliani,  Chaim Soutine,  Maurice de Vlaminck,  Edvard Munch,  Pierre Auguste Renoir,  Henri Matisse,  Kees (Cornelis Theodorus Maria) Van Dongen,  Georges Braque,  Rene Magritte,  Yves Tanguy



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Facts about Vincent Van Gogh

   Vincent Van Gogh  Born:  1853 - Groot-Zundest, Holland
Died:   1890 - Auvers-sur-Oise, France
Known for:  Portrait, self-portrait, still life, sunflower, landscape painting

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a major Post-Impressionist painter.  He was a Dutch artist whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art.  His output includes portraits, self portraits, landscapes and still lifes of cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers.  Van Gogh drew as a child but did not paint until his late twenties; he completed many of his best-known works during the last two years of his life.  In just over a decade he produced more than 2,100 artworks, including 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches and prints.

Van Gogh was born to upper middle class parents and spent his early adulthood working for a firm of art dealers.  He traveled between The Hague, Lond  ...  Displaying 750 of 43267 characters.
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