Van Gogh remained in Paris for 20 months and profited from his stay. He painted Père Tanguy in whose shop paintings by Pissarro, Cézanne, Renoir, Sisley, Seurat, Guillaumin and Signac were to be found. He painted the little restaurants in the bright colours of spring, in bright blue and pink. He worked in the streets, at Montmartre, in the environs of Paris, at Chatou, Bougival and Suresnes. Later he met other painters - Signac, Bernard and Gauguin. In the autumn he met John Russell, who introduced him to Impressionist techniques. He entered the studio of Fernand Cormon (1845-1924). In March 1886 he traveled to Paris, where he lived with his brother. In November 1885 he moved to Antwerp where he was able to study works of Rubens and the Japanese artists. In 1885 he painted The Potato-Eaters as a culmination of his studies of the local agricultural workers and weavers. The figures and land in these paintings were Dutch. He painted here in dark, heavy colours which even at this time he was fond of contrasting and weighing against one another. In December he went to the new family home in Nuenen, Brabant. In September 1883 he left The Hague and moved to the northern province of Drenthe, a popular place with artists of the Hague School. In December he settled in The Hague, working initially under Mauve's supervision. In August he visited The Hague and made contact with artists leaving there, especially a cousin, Anton Mauve (1838-1888). In April 1881 he returned to Etten in Brabant and made drawings of local peasants. In October he moved to the art centre of Brussels and met Anthon van Rappard (1858-1892), a young Dutch artist. He studied the work of Millet, Daubigny and Rousseau by making copies. In the summer of 1880 he decided to become an artist and took up drawing with the financial assistance of his brother Theo, four years his junior.
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In 1879 he was dismissed from his probationary post and refused a full appointment on grounds of inadequacy as a preacher. In November he was sent to the mining district of the Borinage in southern Belgium. He moved to Brussels to train as an evangelist. In 1878 he find the academic studies in Greek and Hebrew too taxing and withdrew from the course. In May he went to Amsterdam and entered the University to study theology. In 1877 he returned to The Netherlands and worked in a bookshop in Dordrecht. He went up to London to see the galleries. In March 1876 he was dismissed from Goupil and Co, and returned to England to teach in a school for poor children in Ramsgate, and afterwards became an assistant at a church school outside London. In Paris he saw a large exhibition of drawings and pastels by Millet. In 1875 he moved to Paris, to the head office of the firm. In London, he had opportunities for studying art, for seeing all kind of works. In 1873 he was transferred to a newly opened London branch of Goupil and Co. In 1869, through his uncle, an art dealer, he obtained a post as a salesman in The Hague offices of Goupil and Co., a firm of art dealers and printsellers. His mother, with whom he had a great inward affinity, was named Anna-Cornelia Carbentus. He grew up in an old-fashioned country-house in the company of a number of younger brothers and sisters.
His birthplace lay in the midst of flat country intersected by canals. 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise)ĭutch painter and draftsman, born in Groot-Zundert, North Brabant, where his father was the Protestant pastor.
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