Vincent Van Gogh , (1853 - 1890)
Painter, born in Groot-Zundert, The Netherlands. At 16 he worked in an art dealer's, wherefore as a teacher, and became an evangelist at Le Borinage (187880). In 1881 he went to Brussels to deal with art, and steadfast at The Hague, where he produced his inaugural drawings and watercolours. At Nuenen he painted his first masterpiece, a domestic liveliness of peasant poverty, The Potato Eaters (1885, Amsterdam). He studied in Paris (18868), where he developed his normal delicacy of brushwork and a further colourful palette. At Arles, the Provenal panorama gave him crowded of his top subjects, agnate as Sunflowers (1888, Tate, London) and The Bridge (1888, Cologne). He showed improvement hieroglyphics of mad oppression (after a free-for-all with Gauguin, he outline take sample of his own ear), and was placed in an asylum at St Rmy (188990). He ergo stayed at Auvers-sur Oise, where at the process of his endure delineation Cornfields with Flight of Birds (1890, Amsterdam) he pursuit himself, and died two days later. One of the pioneers of Expressionism, he used crimson primarily for its awkward appeal, and profoundly influenced the Fauves and divers experimenters of 20th-c art.