What was Van Gogh like as a person?

Thank you Dakota, for the compliment of the A2A. Of course no one today actually knew Van Gogh, so we are all making assumptions based on the writings of others - or upon our best source, which is Van Gogh's own letters. read more

At heart, Van Gogh was a kind, decent and very generous person. But he tended to go completely overboard in everything he did, and thus managed to alienate people by his nervous, over-excited and often quarrelsome nature. read more

Vincent Willem van Gogh (March 30, 1853 to July 29, 1890) was a post-impressionist painter whose work, notable for its beauty, emotion and color, highly influenced 20th-century art. He struggled with mental illness, and remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. read more

Van Gogh turned to well-known Hague School artists like Weissenbruch and Blommers, and received technical advice from them, as well as from painters like De Bock and Van der Weele, both of the Hague School's second generation. read more

Vincent van Gogh completed more than 2,100 works, consisting of 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings and sketches. Several of his paintings now rank among the most expensive in the world;"Irises" sold for a record $53.9 million, and his"Portrait of Dr. Gachet" sold for $82.5 million. read more

The Van Gogh Museum did not authenticate the photograph at the time and only a handful of photos of van Gogh at a much younger age have been deemed real. The address below the photo has also been called into question as it marks a Canadian location, and van Gogh never lived outside of Europe. read more