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Dutch post-impressionist painter. Some of his paintings and sketches are among the best-known and most expensive[2] works in the world.
Van Gogh spent his youth working in an art dealer firm, and after a short teaching experience, he became a missionary in a poor mining town in Belgium. He started his painting career after 1880. Van Gogh, who initially worked with dark and gloomy colors, switched to vibrant colors under the influence of the impressionism and neo-impressionism movements he met in Paris; During his time in Southern France, he developed his unique style of painting, which is widely recognized today.
Van Gogh produced approximately 900 watercolor/oil paintings and 1100 pencil drawings during the last ten years of his life, and his most famous works were painted in the last two years of his life. In 1888, after his friendship with the painter Paul Gauguin broke down, he cut off part of his left ear and committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest as a result of his gradually worsening mental illness. Some art historians also claim that Gauguin cut off Van Gogh's ear, either intentionally or for self-defense, as a result of a heated argument with Gauguin.
Van Gogh was able to survive throughout his painting career thanks to the financial support he received from his brother Theo. The friendship of the two brothers is documented in the letters they wrote to each other starting in 1872. While the number of letters Van Gogh wrote to Theo was more than 600; Only 40 letters Theo wrote to Van Gogh have been found.
Van Gogh, who seriously influenced the art of the 20th century, is one of the sources of inspiration for the Fauvists and is considered one of the pioneers of Impressionism.