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Vincent van Gogh

• Herausgeber: Parkstone International
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Seitenzahl: 65

Beschreibung

Vincent van Gogh’s life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to observe one without thinking of the other. Van Gogh has indeed become the incarnation of the suffering, misunderstood martyr of modern art, the emblem of the artist as an outsider. An article, published in 1890, gave details about van Gogh’s illness. The author of the article saw the painter as “a terrible and demented genius, often sublime, sometimes grotesque, always at the brink of the pathological.” Very little is known about Vincent’s childhood. At the age of eleven he had to leave “the human nest”, as he called it himself, for various boarding schools. The first portrait shows us van Gogh as an earnest nineteen year old. At that time he had already been at work for three years in The Hague and, later, in London in the gallery Goupil & Co. In 1874 his love for Ursula Loyer ended in disaster and a year later he was transferred to Paris, against his will. After a particularly heated argument during Christmas holidays in 1881, his father, a pastor, ordered Vincent to leave. With this final break, he abandoned his family name and signed his canvases simply “Vincent”. He left for Paris and never returned to Holland. In Paris he came to know Paul Gauguin, whose paintings he greatly admired. The self-portrait was the main subject of Vincent’s work from 1886c88. In February 1888 Vincent left Paris for Arles and tried to persuade Gauguin to join him. The months of waiting for Gauguin were the most productive time in van Gogh’s life. He wanted to show his friend as many pictures as possible and decorate the Yellow House. But Gauguin did not share his views on art and finally returned to Paris. On 7 January, 1889, fourteen days after his famous self-mutilation, Vincent left the hospital where he was convalescing. Although he hoped to recover from and to forget his madness, but he actually came back twice more in the same year. During his last stay in hospital, Vincent painted landscapes in which he recreated the world of his childhood. It is said that Vincent van Gogh shot himself in the side in a field but decided to return to the inn and went to bed. The landlord informed Dr Gachet and his brother Theo, who described the last moments of his life which ended on 29 July, 1890: “I wanted to die. While I was sitting next to him promising that we would try to heal him. [...], he answered, ‘La tristesse durera toujours (The sadness will last forever).’”

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Vincent van Gogh

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Contents

BIOGRAPHY

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A

A Meadow in the Mountains:Le Mas de Saint-Paul, Saint-Rémy: mid-June 1889

A Pair of Shoes, Paris: early 1887

A Pair of Shoes, Spring 1887

Agostina Segatori Sitting in the Café du Tambourin, Paris: February–March 1887

Almond Tree in Blossom, Arles: April 1888

An Old Woman from Arles, Arles: February 1888

Asnières Bridge,Paris: Summer 1887

B

Beach at Scheveningen, The Hague: August 1882

Blossoming Almond Tree, Saint-Rémy: February 1890

C

Café at Night, Arles: September 1888

Chestnut Tree in Blossom,Auvers-sur-Oise: May 1890

Cottage with Decrepit Barn and Stooping Woman, Nuenen: July 1885

Crab on its Back, Arles: January 1889

Cypress and Two Women, Saint-Rémy: February 1890

Cypresses with Two Female Figures, Saint-Rémy: June 1889

E

Enclosed Wheat Field with Peasant, Saint-Rémy: early October 1889

Evening Landscape with Rising Moon, Saint-Rémy: early July 1889

F

Field with Ploughman and Mill, Saint-Rémy: October 1889

Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries, Arles: end of June 1888

Flowerpot with Chives, Paris: March–April 1887

G

Green Wheat Field with Cypress, Saint-Rémy: mid-June 1889

H

Haystacks in Provence, Arles: June 1888

Haystacks on a Rainy Day, Auvers-sur-Oise: July 1890

Head of a Peasant, Nuenen: January 1885

Head of a Woman with her Hair down, Antwerp: December 1885

J

Japonaiserie: Bridge in the Rain (after Hiroshige), Paris: September–October 1887

Japonaiserie: Oiran (after Keisai Eisen), Paris: September-October 1887

L

L’Arlésienne (Madame Ginoux), Saint-Rémy: February 1890

L’Arlésienne: Madame Ginoux with Books, Arles: November 1888

La Méridienne (after Millet), Saint-Rémy: January 1890

La Mousmé, Arles: July 1888

Landscape of Auvers in the Rain, Auvers-sur-Oise: July 1890

Langlois Bridge at Arles, Arles: April 1888

Le Moulin de la Galette, Paris: March 1887

Les Alyscamps, Arles: late October 1888

Les Peiroulets Ravine, Saint-Rémy: December 1889

M

Madam Roulin Rocking the Cradle (La Berceuse), Arles: January 1889

Memory of the Garden of Eden (Women of Arles), 1888

Morning: Peasant Couple Going to Work (after Millet), Saint-Rémy: January 1890

O

Olive Grove, Saint-Rémy: mid-June 1889

Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background, Saint-Rémy: June 1889

P

Paul Gauguin’s Armchair, Arles: December 1888

Peasant Woman Digging, Neunen: August 1885

Peasant Woman, Seated with White Cap, Nuenen: December 1884

Pietà (after Delacroix), Saint-Rémy: September 1889

Pine Tree against a Red Sky with Setting Sun, Saint-Rémy: November 1889

Plain at Auvers with Cloudy Skies, Auvers-sur-Oise: July 1890

Pollard Willows, Arles: April 1889

Poppies and Butterflies, Saint-Rémy: April–May 1890

Portrait of a Patient in Saint-Paul Hospital, Saint-Rémy: October 1889

Portrait of Armand Roulin, Arles: November–December 1888

Portrait of Doctor Félix Rey, Arles: January 1889

Portrait of Doctor Paul Gachet, Auvers-sur-Oise: June 1890

Portrait of Eugène Boch, Arles: September 1888

Portrait of Milliet, Lieutenant under Zouaves, Arles: September 1888

Portrait of Patience Escalier, Arles: August 1888

Portrait of Père Tanguy, Paris: Autumn 1887

Portrait of Postman Joseph Roulin, Arles: early August 1888

Portrait of the Art Dealer Alexandre Reid, Paris: Spring 1887

Portrait of the Artist’s Mother, Arles: October 1888

Portrait of Woman in Blue, Antwerp: December 1885

Prisoners’ Rounds (after Gustave Doré), Saint-Rémy: February 1890

R

Road with Cypress Trees and Starry Sky, Auvers-sur-Oise: May 1890

S

Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Paul Gauguin), Arles: September 1888

Self-Portrait in Front of Easel, Paris: January–February 1888

Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe, Arles: January 1889

Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, Arles: January 1889

Self-Portrait, Arles: November–December 1888

Self-Portrait, Saint-Rémy, late August 1889

Self-Portrait, Saint-Rémy: late August 1889

Self-Portrait, Saint-Rémy: September 1889

Self-Portrait, Saint-Rémy: September 1889

Sheaves of Wheat, Auvers-sur-Oise: July 1890

Starry Night over the Rhône, Arles: September 1888

Still Life with a Basket of Vegetables, Nuenen: September 1885

Still Life with Basket of Apples(to Lucien Pissarro),Paris: Autumn 1887

Still Life with Decanter and Lemons on a Plate, Paris: Spring 1887

Still Life with Red Cabbages and Onions, Paris: Autumn 1887

Still Life: Drawing Board with Onions, Arles: January 1889

Still Life: Pink Roses in a Vase, Saint-Rémy: May 1890

Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers, Arles: August 1888

Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers, Arles: January 1889

Street in Saintes-Maries, Arles: early June 1888

T

Thatched Cottages at Cordeville,Auvers-sur-Oise: June 1890

Thatched Cottages by a Hill, Auvers-sur-Oise: July 1890

The Bedroom, Saint-Rémy: early September 1889

The Bois de Boulogne with People Walking, Paris: Summer 1886

The Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night, September 1888

The Church at Auvers-sur-Oise,Auvers-sur-Oise: June 1890

The Garden of Saint-Paul’s Hospital, Saint-Rémy: May 1889

The Good Samaritan (after Delacroix), Saint-Rémy: May 1890

The Green Vineyard, Arles: September 1888

The Mulberry Tree, Saint-Rémy: October 1889

The Old Sad Man, Saint-Rémy: April–May 1890

The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in the Snow, Nuenen: January 1885

The Pit, the Mills at Montmartre, Paris: autumn 1888

The Poet’s Garden, Arles: September 1888

The Potato Eaters, Nuenen: April 1885

The Red Vineyard, Arles: November 1888

The Road Menders, Saint-Rémy: November 1889

The Shepherd (after Millet), Saint-Rémy: November 1889

The Sower (after Millet), Saint-Rémy: late October 1889

The Sower, Arles: November 1888

The Zouave (half-length), Arles: June 1888

Three White Cottages in Saintes-Maries, Arles: early June 1888

Trees in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospice, Saint-Rémy: October 1889

Trees in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospice, Saint-Rémy: October 1889

Trees with Figure in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital, Saint-Rémy: November 1889

Trunk of an Old Yew, Arles: 1888

Two Little Girls,Auvers-sur-Oise: June 1890

Two Poplars on a Road through the Hills, Saint-Rémy: October, 1889

V

View of the Churchat Saint-Paul-de-Mausole, Saint-Rémy: October 1889

Vincent’s Chair with his Pipe, Arles: December 1888

Vincent’s House in Arles (The Yellow House), Arles: September 1888

W

Ward in the Hospital in Arles, April 1889

Weaver, Seen from the front, Nuenen: May 1884

Wheat Field with Cypresses at Haut Galline near Eygalières, Saint-Rémy: late June 1889

Wheatfield with Crows,Auvers-sur-Oise: June 1890

Woman Sitting by a Cradle, Paris: Spring 1887

Wooden Sheds, Saint-Rémy: December 1889

Y

Young Girl Standing against a Background of Wheat,Auvers-sur-Oise: late June 1890

Self-Portrait, Saint-Rémy, late August 1889

Oil on canvas, 57 x 43.5 cm. Private Collection, New York

Biography

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