Vincent van Gogh

A little bit on Vincent van Gogh

Birth name: Vincent Willem van Gogh
Born: 30 March 1853 Zundert, Netherlands
Died: 29 July 1890 (aged 37)Auvers-sur-Oise, France
Nationality: Dutch
Field: Painter (1853-03-30) (1890-07-30)

Little appreciated during his lifetime, his fame grew in the years after his death. Today, he is widely regarded as one of history's greatest painters and an important contributor to the foundations of modern art. Van Gogh did not begin painting until his late twenties, and most of his best-known works were produced during his final two years. He produced more than 2,000 artworks, consisting of around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches. Although he was little known during his lifetime, his work was a strong influence on the modernist art that followed. Today many of his pieces—including his numerous self portraits, landscapes, portraits and sunflowers—are among the world's most recognizable and expensive works of art.