Vincent Van Gogh [antikvár]

VINCENT Ju WAS BORN OM MARCH 30, IB53 AT G ROOTZ UNDERT,HOLLAND. HIS FATHER,. THEOOORUS.WAS A PREACHER.ANNft CORNELIA, HiS. MOTHER, CAME FROM A FAIVMLV OF BOOKmDERS.VINCENT AND HIS BROTHER THEO HAD THREE SISTERS. FROM THE AGE OF SIXTEEN TO TWENTV-THREE,VOUNG- VAN GOH V\/ORKE0 IN HIS UNCLE'S ART GALLERIES IN HOLLAND, ENGLAND AND FRANCE AND MASTERED THE THREE LANUES. HE ALSO STUDIED THE AAANY ART MASTERPIECES INTHOSE CITIES. FOURVEARS LATER, AFTER STUDYING- FOR THE /AINISTRY AND SERVING BRIEFLY AS A PREACHER, HE DEDICATED HIS L\FE TO PAINTING- AND DRAVsilNG. AMONG-HIS MANY ARTIST FRJENDS WERE EMILE BERNARD, PAUL GAUGUIN, GEORGES SEURAT, CAMILLE PISSARRO AND HENRI ROUSSEAU. IN THE FINAL TEN YEARS OP H\S LIFE HE CREATED OVER ONE THOUSAND SEVEN riUAiORED WORKS OF ART. HE DEVELOPED A GENIUS FOR USING COLOR.THIS FRESW VISION OPENED A NEV^ WORLD FOR LATER ARTISTS TO EXPLORE. AT AGE 3T,VINCENT DIED. IN ADDITION TO HIS ART, HE LEFT A RICH PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE IN HIS LETTERS TO THEO. PORTHAn OF IHff AR-fiST BY IHRNEST «.ABOPF