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Van Gogh is moved into Arles hospital isolation after the ear, a forced indoor displacement

After the ear Van Gogh was moved into Arles hospital isolation. The instrument is that forced indoor displacement, not the later Saint-Rémy admission. In the causal graph this event strengthens Forced-Displacement Scale, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — a worsening welfare path.

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After the ear Van Gogh was moved into Arles hospital isolation. The instrument is that forced indoor displacement, not the later Saint-Rémy admission. Vincent van Gogh's documented role is: Hospital officers held him. The Yellow House emptied. This is the displacement of those days, not the May 1889 train to Saint-Rémy.

Context

Named hospital officers held the key. Sharing that lock is required. The ear injury remains the health row of 24 December. The setting of Van Gogh is moved into Arles hospital isolation after the ear, a forced indoor displacement is the public file around 1888-12-26. Driver forced-displacement-scale is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

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

Why it matters

Worsening path from Van Gogh is moved into Arles hospital isolation after the ear, a forced indoor displacement on 1888-12-26. Forced hospital isolation is a displacement path. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Two dates, two houses. Mixed effects of Van Gogh is moved into Arles hospital isolation after the ear, a forced indoor displacement are separate paths.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Vincent van Gogh

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    Hospital officers held him. The Yellow House emptied. This is the displacement of those days, not the May 1889 train to Saint-Rémy.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Vincent van Gogh The Letters — Borinage sick-care neighbourhoodVan Gogh Museum / Huygens ING · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Van Gogh Museum — Vincent's life chronologyVan Gogh Museum · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Official locator: Van Gogh Museum — Arles hospital neighbourhood at https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890 (opens in a new tab) (Van Gogh Museum). Independent locator: Vincent van Gogh The Letters — hospital December 1888 at https://vangoghletters.org/vg/ (opens in a new tab) (Van Gogh Museum / Huygens ING). Official carrier: Van Gogh Museum — Arles hospital neighbourhood (https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890 (opens in a new tab); Van Gogh Museum). Independent carrier: Vincent van Gogh The Letters — hospital December 1888 (https://vangoghletters.org/vg/ (opens in a new tab); Van Gogh Museum / Huygens ING).

Established: a sourced public record of Van Gogh is moved into Arles hospital isolation after the ear, a forced indoor displacement under 1888-12-26 for Vincent van Gogh. Established: a sourced public record of Van Gogh is moved into Arles hospital isolation after the ear, a forced indoor displacement under 1888-12-26.

Shared responsibility is part of Van Gogh is moved into Arles hospital isolation after the ear, a forced indoor displacement. Naming Vincent van Gogh does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1888-12-26 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.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

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

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorVincent van Gogh
  2. contributed toFactVan Gogh is moved into Arles hospital isolation after the ear, a forced indoor displacement
  3. strengthensDriverForced-Displacement Scale
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

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Factrail. (2026). Van Gogh is moved into Arles hospital isolation after the ear, a forced indoor displacement. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-hospital-displace

https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-hospital-displace

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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