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He was born on March 30 1853, Zundert. Son of Theodorus and his wife Anna Cornelia
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I had four more brothers: Cornelius Vincent, Elisabetha Huberta, Anna Cornelia and Wilhelmina Jacoba.
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Van Gogh began work in 1869, at the age of 16, as an apprentice at Goupil & Co., a major international art trading company.
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Four years later he was transferred to London, and it was there that he had first contact with Eugenia, daughter of Ursula Loyer, patron saint from where he stayed. He fell in love with her, but the girl was engaged and turned him down.
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He enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts where he studied drawing and perspective. At this time he made drawings based on the paintings of Jean-Fran'ois Millet, depicting peasants and miners, and painting them very realistic and with dark tones.
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He decided to be a painter when he was 27 and always wanted to reflect life in his works. His pictorial career is marked by the places where he lived and worked.
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He falls in love again, this time of one of his kee cousins to which he quickly proposed marriage, Kee's response was: "No, never, ever."
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In 1885 he painted his first major work, The Potato Eaters.
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During the last thirty months of life he went on to make 500 works and in his last 69 days he signed up to 79 paintings.
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Van Gogh and Gauguin had an altercation that gave rise to one of the explanations that have been given about the loss of the first's left ear.
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Van Gogh's later years were marked by his psychiatric problems, which took him to mental sanatoriums voluntarily, including the asylum of Saint Paul-de-Mausole, where he entered on 8 May 1889.
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Van Gogh died from a firearm.
