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Vincent Van Gogh sold only one painting during his lifetime.

Recognition

Have you ever created something that was recognised by someone else?

Legacy

Legacy. It’s what someone leaves behind for the world to remember them by.

An artist’s legacy can be their paintings, their influence on others, or even the way people think and feel because of their work. But how do we know someone’s legacy? We look at what they’ve left behind, the stories told about them, and how their work lives on. Let’s discover the legacy of Vincent Van Gogh together.

Context

Context is like the background story that helps you understand something better. Imagine you’re looking at a puzzle piece—it’s hard to know what it is on its own. But when you see the whole puzzle, it makes sense.

1400 to 1600

Renaissance

1750 - 1850

Neoclassicism

1848 - 1900

Realism

1865 - 1885

Impressionism

1885 - 1910

Post - Impressionism

Birth Certificate

Dating to March 30, 1853 this original image of van Gogh's birth record appears in the Dutch language. "Birthrecord Duth painter Vincent (Willem) van Gogh date 30 March 1853 Zundert. Parents are Theodorus van Gogh en Anna Cornelia Carbentus. Witnesses Jacobus Jan Veerman and Cornelis van Ginneken.

Newspaper reports

On Sunday evening, around seven o'clock, Mr. Van Gogh left the hotel, heading towards the château, and at nine o'clock he returned smiling, but in great pain, with a bullet wound to the stomach: Mr. Van Gogh had attempted suicide.

'Is there blood in what I cough up?' he asked with an unperturbed voice.

'No,' he was told.

'Well, I missed again,' he replied.

It was, it seems, the second time he had tried to end his life.

Mr. Van Gogh passed away on Tuesday at one o'clock in the afternoon.

Mr. Van Gogh was Protestant. His funeral took place on Wednesday at 3 p.m.