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He was the son of Theodorus van Gogh, a preacher, and Anna Cornelia Carbentus.
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He displayed no signs of having the unique artistic ability which flourished later.
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Vincent lands a job at Goupil & Cie, an art dealership which has various galleries dotted around Europe.
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Vincent is transferred to London and meets a landlady and her daughter in south London. He falls in love with the daughter, but his feelings are not reciprocated.
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Vincent goes to Brussels to study art.
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One of his most famous works.
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Vincent moves to Paris he meets artists like Camille Pissarro and Edgar Degas
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His plan is to establish an artist's colony to find inspiration and enjoy life, in which he failed.
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Gauguin and van Gogh have a fight, he cutts his ear and left blood so later the cops assumed he was dead and arrested Gauguin.
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Van Gogh voluntarily admits himself to the St Remy asylum. An there paints A Starry Night
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Van Gogh leaves the St Remy asylum and travels to Auvers-sur-Oise, a small village close to Paris.
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Van Gogh goes to paint wheatfields, but shoots himself in the chest*. He staggers back to his lodgings but dies two days later.