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Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh

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Dutch painter (1853–1890). Documented harms: Goupil firing, consistory withdrawal, unsold stock, Gauguin quarrel, ear, petition, asylum, 1890 Auvers death as a sourced event. Offsets: Borinage care, Potato Eaters, sunflower series as one set, Starry Night.

Painter of weavers asylums and one sunflower seriesbrother-funded unsold work as the fiscal condition1890 Auvers death as a sourced event not a museum

Impact

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Editorial assessment (context, not the score)

The record is not a sunflower saint and not a unique author of a 1990 museum. The heaviest documented costs are dismissal, church withdrawal, unsold stock, the Arles quarrel and ear, civic petition and asylum, brother-rent, and a 1890 death whose agency stays medium. The offsets are Borinage care, a peasant-labour file, one sunflower series, Starry Night, and a letter-file. Confidence is high on dated houses and pictures, medium on unique medical effect and on the exact gunshot agency.

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Accountability & contradictions

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Responsibility

What could change this assessment

  • 9 linked facts have no assessed welfare direction yet.
  • Lifetime coverage has not been assessed: the record reflects stored facts only (1869–1890).

Causal path

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  1. PersonVincent van Gogh
  2. FactVan Gogh dies at Auvers on 29 July 1890 after a gunshot; later inquest and letters are the public file
  3. DriverHealth system capacity stress
  1. PersonVincent van Gogh
  2. FactDr Paul Gachet receives Van Gogh at Auvers-sur-Oise in May 1890 as a physician-host
  3. DriverHealth system capacity stress
  1. PersonVincent van Gogh
  2. FactAt Saint-Rémy Van Gogh makes copies after Millet as a public labour-and-devotion exercise
  3. DriverLabour-Market Tightness

Timeline

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  1. 29 July 1890 · Health system capacity stress

    Van Gogh dies at Auvers on 29 July 1890 after a gunshot; later inquest and letters are the public file

  2. 20 May 1890 · Health system capacity stress

    Dr Paul Gachet receives Van Gogh at Auvers-sur-Oise in May 1890 as a physician-host

  3. 1 February 1890 · Labour-Market Tightness

    At Saint-Rémy Van Gogh makes copies after Millet as a public labour-and-devotion exercise

  4. 1 June 1889 · Digital Learning Access

    The Starry Night is painted at Saint-Rémy in 1889 as a public asylum-period canvas

  5. 8 May 1889 · Health system capacity stress

    Van Gogh enters the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum at Saint-Rémy on 8 May 1889

  6. 1 March 1889 · Democratic Resilience

    As a Dutch foreigner in Arles Van Gogh sits under municipal police and hospital powers after the ear

Evidence & methodology

How the record is sourced and how the score is derived.

32 of 32 linked facts verified, drawing on 6 distinct sources (1869–1890).

Sources include Van Gogh Museum, Musée d'Orsay, Museum of Modern Art, Van Gogh Museum / Huygens ING, Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Sources

  1. 1.Van Gogh Museum — Vincent's life chronologyVan Gogh Museum
  2. 2.Vincent van Gogh The Letters — Borinage sick-care neighbourhoodVan Gogh Museum / Huygens ING
  3. 3.Musée d'Orsay — Van Gogh works neighbourhoodMusée d'Orsay
  4. 4.Van Gogh Museum — collection (Nuenen weavers neighbourhood)Van Gogh Museum
  5. 5.MoMA — Vincent van Gogh artist page (Roulin neighbourhood)Museum of Modern Art
  6. 6.Britannica — Paul Gauguin, Arles neighbourhoodEncyclopaedia Britannica

The score is formula-derived (Factrail formula v1, version 1.0.0), not an editorial verdict. Read the methodology.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed · Sources: 6

Expert analysis

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The offices he actually held

Van Gogh is a Goupil apprentice, a dismissed evangelical trial preacher, a painter funded by his brother, and a patient of Arles and Saint-Rémy. The Van Gogh Museum chronology at https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890 (opens in a new tab), the letters edition at https://vangoghletters.org/vg/ (opens in a new tab), Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh (opens in a new tab), and the Met Heilbrunn essay at https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gogh/hd_gogh.htm (opens in a new tab) are independent public files. Orsay and MoMA pages carry later holdings, used as locators of pictures, not as 1888 acts.

The first fact about his power is Theo's rent. The second is a small set of public pictures. The third is a sequence of confinements he did not vote.

What went wrong

Goupil fired him. The consistory withdrew the Borinage mandate. Etten broke. The Sien household sat under class-and-sex stigma. Pictures did not sell. Dealer books stayed opaque. Gauguin left after 23 December 1888. The ear and hospital isolation followed. Neighbours petitioned. As a Dutch foreigner he sat under mayor and police. Saint-Rémy confined him. He died at Auvers on 29 July 1890 after a gunshot; this catalog does not manufacture a unique ballistic proof and does not treat Wheatfield with Crows as a note.

What improved

A shop craft; miners' preaching and sick-care; weavers; Potato Eaters; academy and Paris looking; Japanese prints as method; the Yellow House plan; one sunflower series; sowers; Roulins; Starry Night; Millet copies; Gachet; letters as a working file.

Related people: Theo, Gauguin, Gachet, Roulin, Sien, Millet as predecessor, Pissarro as Paris and Auvers adviser, Bernard, Signac, Mauve.

The 1990 museum is not his hand. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. Related 2024–2025 news about COP, NATO, or a chancellorship is not a relation. Shared work remains named. What would change the reading is a contradictory original with a different date or signatory. Shared work remains named. Shared work remains named. Shared work remains named. Shared work remains named. Shared work remains named.

Questions

Is Vincent van Gogh under sanctions?

Yes. 1 August 1880: The evangelical consistory withdraws Van Gogh's Borinage posting in 1880 (Van Gogh Museum).

Does Vincent van Gogh face an ICC warrant or criminal charges?

27 February 1889: Arles neighbours petition in February 1889 to have Van Gogh confined or removed.

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