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

Date: 1888

## The fact

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. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [forced-displacement-scale](/drivers/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.

## Evidence and sources

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

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

## Significance

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. Do not twin with Saint-Rémy as the same confinement. 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.

## What is established and what is not

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.

The attached driver is forced-displacement-scale. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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.

## People

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

## Drivers

- Forced-Displacement Scale: https://factrail.ai/drivers/forced-displacement-scale

## Sources

- https://vangoghletters.org/vg/
- https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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