short biography

Vincent van Gogh (b. 1853, Groot-Zundert/Breda, Niederlande; d. 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, Frankreich) was a Painter and draftsman of the Post-Impressionism and Precursor of Fauvism and Expressionism. All in all, he was the founder of modern painting. He studied theology in Amsterdam and Brussels and worked as a preacher in the miners region of South Belgium. Afterwards he had a short study at the Antwerp Art Academy. He met Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Emile Bernard, Camille Pissarro and Paul Gauguin in Paris. In Arles he had a short collaboration with Paul Gaugin, but it ends in contentious dispute and a nervous breakdown of van Gogh. He suffered from epilepsy and went into the Sanatorium St. Rémy, while continuing his work. In 1890 he attempted to shoot himself and died of his injuries.
Famous works are " "The Yellow House in Arles", "Cafe Terrace at Night", "Sower with Setting Sun", "Starry Night with Cypresses", "Portrait Dr. Paul Gachet".

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collection/s

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Belvedere, Wien Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Centraal Museum Utrecht Cincinnati Art Museum Courtauld, London Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Dordrechts Museum Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles GAM Galleria d´Arte Moderna, Milan Getty, Los Angeles Groninger Museum Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Harvard Art Museums — Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, Arthur M. Sackler, Carpenter ° Hiroshima Museum of Art Honolulu Academy of Arts ICA Richmond Indianapolis Museum of Art Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Kreeger Museum, Washington Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Kunst Museum Winterthur Kunsthalle Bremen Kunsthalle Mannheim Kunstmuseum Basel / Museum für Gegenwartskunst Kunstmuseum Solothurn La Boverie, Liège MASP - Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo MNBA - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York Menil Collection, Houston Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Museo Soumaya, Mexico City Museum Folkwang, Essen Museum de Fundatie Zwolle Musée des Beaux-Arts La Chaux-de-Fonds Musée d´Orsay, Paris National Gallery Prague National Gallery of Art, Washington ° National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa National Gallery, London Neue Pinakothek, München (geschlossen) New Art Gallery Walsall Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen Phillips Collection, Washington Pinakothek der Moderne, München Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow . RISD Museum, Providence Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Sammlung Oskar Reinhart Am Römerholz, Winterthur State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg / RUS Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Städel Museum, Frankfurt Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art Tel Aviv Museum of Art Teylers Museum, Haarlem The Baltimore Museum of Art ° The National Museum Szczecin (Stettin) The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (closed) The Whitworth, Manchester Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Köln Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
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galleries

Acquavella Galleries, New York Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London
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