Vincent van Gogh

Post-Impressionist painter whose bold colors and expressive brushwork profoundly influenced 20th-century art. In roughly a decade of artistic activity, he created about 2,100 artworks, including approximately 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life.

Education

• 1880 Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
• 1882 Studied with Anton Mauve, The Hague
• 1886 Académie des Beaux-Arts & Atelier Cormon, Paris

Selected Exhibitions

• 1888 Salon des Indépendants, Paris
• 1889 Salon des Indépendants, Paris
• 1889 Les XX, Brussels (invited)
• 1890 Salon des Indépendants, Paris
• 1901 Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, Paris (posthumous retrospective)

Collections

• Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
• Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Musée d'Orsay, Paris
• Art Institute of Chicago