# Van Gogh mutilates his ear in Arles on 23–24 December 1888 and is hospitalised

Date: 1888

## The fact

On 23–24 December 1888 Van Gogh mutilated his ear in Arles and was hospitalised. The instrument is that injury-and-admission. Vincent van Gogh's documented role is: He injured himself. Hospital physicians treated him. Later ear-gift anecdotes vary. High on hospitalisation, medium on the exact gift story.

## Context

Named hospital staff treated him. Sharing that ward is required. Gauguin's quarrel remains the previous day's polar row. The setting of Van Gogh mutilates his ear in Arles on 23–24 December 1888 and is hospitalised is the public file around 1888-12-24. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver health-system-capacity is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Van Gogh Museum — the ear incident neighbourhood at https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890 (Van Gogh Museum). Independent locator: Britannica — Vincent van Gogh, breakdown in Arles at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Van Gogh Museum — the ear incident neighbourhood (https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890; Van Gogh Museum). Independent carrier: Britannica — Vincent van Gogh, breakdown in Arles (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Van Gogh Museum — the ear incident neighbourhood (https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890; Van Gogh Museum).

## Significance

Worsening path from Van Gogh mutilates his ear in Arles on 23–24 December 1888 and is hospitalised on 1888-12-24. A dated self-mutilation and hospitalisation is a health-harm path. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Van Gogh mutilates his ear in Arles on 23–24 December 1888 and is hospitalised under 1888-12-24 for Vincent van Gogh. Established: a sourced public record of Van Gogh mutilates his ear in Arles on 23–24 December 1888 and is hospitalised under 1888-12-24.

The attached driver is health-system-capacity. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not print a unique gram-of-tissue coefficient. The neighbour petition is a later 1889 civic row. Mixed effects of Van Gogh mutilates his ear in Arles on 23–24 December 1888 and is hospitalised are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of Van Gogh mutilates his ear in Arles on 23–24 December 1888 and is hospitalised. Naming Vincent van Gogh does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1888-12-24 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Vincent van Gogh: https://factrail.ai/people/vincent-van-gogh

## Drivers

- Health-System Capacity: https://factrail.ai/drivers/health-system-capacity

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh
- https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-ear