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Vincent van Gogh: A Ten-Year Career That Changed Modern Art
He tried art dealing, teaching and preaching before he picked up a brush. In the ten years that followed he made more than 850 paintings and sold only a handful.
Vincent van Gogh
1853–1890
Dutch painter (1853–1890) whose career lasted only about ten years. He made more than 850 paintings, sold only a handful in his lifetime and became one of the most influential artists of modern art.
Van Gogh was born in Zundert on 30 March 1853.1 He turned to art in 1880 after working for an art dealer, as a teacher and as a lay preacher.2
He worked in Nuenen, Paris, Arles and Saint-Rémy, and died at Auvers-sur-Oise on 29 July 1890.2
Sources
- 1Young Vincent (Vincent's life, 1853–1890). Van Gogh Museum
- 2Vincent van Gogh: The productive decade. Encyclopaedia Britannica
