The Letters of a Post Impressionist Being the Familiar Correspondence of Vincent Van Gogh — Vincent van Gogh

VINCENT VAN GOGH was born in 1853 at Groot Zundert a village in the province of North Brabant in Holland and was the son of a clergyman Like his two uncles he was destined to be an art dealer and from the time when he finished his education until his twenty third year he worked for the firm of Goupil at The Hague in London and in Paris He left Paris to return to England where for a short time he was engaged as a schoolmaster in the country But this did not satisfy him either and he now wished to study theology at Amsterdam When however he discovered that these studies also failed to give him precisely what he was seeking he left for Belgium where he went among the miners as an evangelist There among the coal mines he began to draw After going to Brussels he returned in 1881 to his home where he began to pursue independent studies until he moved to The Hague and for the first time entered into relations with other painters In 1883 he went into the province of Drenthe and very shortly afterwards back again to Brabant where he worked strenuously until 1885 The things he drew and painted there in Zundert were already stamped with an exceedingly strong personal character though they are very different from the works belonging to his later French period In 1885 he attended the Academy of Antwerp for a few months and in the spring of 1886 we find him in Paris where thanks to his brother Theodore van Gogh an art dealer with exceptionally good taste he became acquainted with the art of the Impressionist school and entered into personal relations with one or two of its exponents Very soon after this he travelled southward and worked first at Arles and later at St Remy In the works of this period he approached much more closely to the modern French school than to the art of his native land The remainder of his life was spent in a Hospital for Diseases of the Nerves at Auvers sur Oise where he died in 1890

The Letters of a Post Impressionist Being the Familiar Correspondence of Vincent Van Gogh

VINCENT VAN GOGH was born in 1853 at Groot Zundert a village in the province of North Brabant in Holland and was the son of a clergyman Like his two uncles he was destined to be an art dealer and from the time when he finished his education until his twenty third year he worked for the firm of Goupil at The Hague in London and in Paris He left Paris to return to England where for a short time he was engaged as a schoolmaster in the country But this did not satisfy him either and he now wished to study theology at Amsterdam When however he discovered that these studies also failed to give him precisely what he was seeking he left for Belgium where he went among the miners as an evangelist There among the coal mines he began to draw After going to Brussels he returned in 1881 to his home where he began to pursue independent studies until he moved to The Hague and for the first time entered into relations with other painters In 1883 he went into the province of Drenthe and very shortly afterwards back again to Brabant where he worked strenuously until 1885 The things he drew and painted there in Zundert were already stamped with an exceedingly strong personal character though they are very different from the works belonging to his later French period In 1885 he attended the Academy of Antwerp for a few months and in the spring of 1886 we find him in Paris where thanks to his brother Theodore van Gogh an art dealer with exceptionally good taste he became acquainted with the art of the Impressionist school and entered into personal relations with one or two of its exponents Very soon after this he travelled southward and worked first at Arles and later at St Remy In the works of this period he approached much more closely to the modern French school than to the art of his native land The remainder of his life was spent in a Hospital for Diseases of the Nerves at Auvers sur Oise where he died in 1890

VINCENT VAN GOGH 1853 te Hollanda nın Kuzey Brabant eyaletindeki bir köy olan Groot Zundert te doğdu ve bir din adamının oğluydu İki amcası gibi onun da kaderi bir sanat tüccarıydı ve eğitimini bitirdiği andan yirmi üçüncü yılına kadar Lahey deki Londra daki ve Paris teki Goupil firmasında çalıştı Paris ten ayrılarak İngiltere ye döndü ve kısa bir süre ülkede öğretmenlik yaptı Ama bu da onu tatmin etmedi ve şimdi Amsterdam da ilahiyat okumak istiyordu Ancak bu çalışmaların da tam olarak aradığı şeyi kendisine vermediğini keşfettiğinde madencilerin arasına evangelist olarak gittiği Belçika ya gitti Orada kömür madenleri arasında çizmeye başladı Brüksel e gittikten sonra 1881 de evine döndü Lahey e taşınana kadar bağımsız çalışmalara burada başladı ve ilk kez diğer ressamlarla ilişkilere girdi 1883 te Drenthe eyaletine gitti ve çok kısa bir süre sonra tekrar Brabant a geri döndü ve orada 1885 e kadar yoğun bir şekilde çalıştı Orada Zundert te çizdiği ve boyadığı şeyler her ne kadar çok güçlü bir kişisel karaktere sahip olsalar da zaten fazlasıyla güçlü bir kişisel karaktere sahipti daha sonraki Fransız dönemine ait eserlerden çok farklıdır 1885 te birkaç aylığına Antwerp Akademisi ne gitti ve 1886 baharında onu son derece iyi bir zevke sahip bir sanat tüccarı olan kardeşi Theodore van Gogh sayesinde sanatla tanıştığı Paris te bulduk İzlenimci okulun bir ya da iki temsilcisiyle kişisel ilişkilere girdi Bundan çok kısa bir süre sonra güneye gitti ve önce Arles da sonra St Remy de çalıştı Bu dönemin eserlerinde modern Fransız okuluna anavatanının sanatından çok daha yakın yaklaştı Hayatının geri kalanı 1890 da öldüğü Auvers sur Oise deki Sinir Hastalıkları Hastanesinde geçti