# Vincent van Gogh ## 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, the letters edition at https://vangoghletters.org/vg/, Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh, and the Met Heilbrunn essay at https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gogh/hd_gogh.htm 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. ## Dated facts - Van Gogh dies at Auvers on 29 July 1890 after a gunshot; later inquest and letters are the public file. https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-death-1890. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh, https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890. - Dr Paul Gachet receives Van Gogh at Auvers-sur-Oise in May 1890 as a physician-host. https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-gachet. Sources: https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks?s=van%20gogh, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh. - 1890: At Saint-Rémy Van Gogh makes copies after Millet as a public labour-and-devotion exercise. https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-millet-copies. Sources: https://vangoghletters.org/vg/, https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890. - The Starry Night is painted at Saint-Rémy in 1889 as a public asylum-period canvas. https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-starry-night. Sources: https://www.moma.org/artists/2206, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh. - Van Gogh enters the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum at Saint-Rémy on 8 May 1889. https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-saint-remy. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh, https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890. - 1889: As a Dutch foreigner in Arles Van Gogh sits under municipal police and hospital powers after the ear. https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-foreigner-police. Sources: https://vangoghletters.org/vg/, https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890. - Arles neighbours petition in February 1889 to have Van Gogh confined or removed. https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-petition. Sources: https://vangoghletters.org/vg/, https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890. - 1889: After the ear, public taunting and isolation in Arles are stored as a civic humiliation file. https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-humiliation. Sources: https://vangoghletters.org/vg/, https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890. - 1889: Theo's monthly support remains the fiscal condition of Vincent's work and is stored as a brother-rent dependency. https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-theo-rent. Sources: https://vangoghletters.org/vg/, https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890. - 1888: Van Gogh is moved into Arles hospital isolation after the ear, a forced indoor displacement. https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-hospital-displace. Sources: https://vangoghletters.org/vg/, https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890. - Van Gogh mutilates his ear in Arles on 23–24 December 1888 and is hospitalised. https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-ear. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh, https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890. - The quarrel with Paul Gauguin in Arles on 23 December 1888 ends the shared Yellow House plan. https://factrail.ai/facts/vg-gauguin-quarrel. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-Gauguin, https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/art-and-stories/vincents-life-1853-1890. ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/people/vincent-van-gogh