Vincent van Gogh

✶March 30, 1853

†July 29, 1890

Netherlands

18 candles burning, 95 lit in all

About their life

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. His suicide at 37 followed years of mental illness and poverty.

Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose luminous, expressive works, largely unrecognized in his lifetime, became some of the most beloved images in art history.

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