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In the little town of Zundert, in the southwest of Holland towards the Belgium border, Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, and named for his two grandfathers (Figure 2.2). He was the first surviving child of six to Theodorus van Gogh, an itinerant Calvinist pastor from Benschop, and Anna van Gogh, nee Carbentus from The Hague.1,2 Vincent died in Auvers-sur-Oise (France) on July 29, 1890. This was just five years and three months after the passing of his father, who was disappointed with his eldest son’s failure to bring any of four previous vocations to fruition and was unaware of his potential as an artist.

Either inside or outside the family, they will always judge me or talk about me from different points of view, and you will always hear the most divergent opinions about me. And I blame no one for it, because relatively few people know why an artist acts as he does. Vincent to Theo, letter 142, from Brussels, April 2, 1881.

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Arnold, W.N. (1992). Vita. In: Vincent van Gogh: Chemicals, Crises and Creativity. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2976-6_2

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