Vincent van gogh timeline biography printable

Vincent's school career was fragmented: he attended the village school in Zundert for a year, followed by two years at a boarding school in Zevenbergen and eighteen months at the Willem II 'Rijks-HBS' grammar school in Tilburg. The manager of the firm was H. Goupil also had branches in Paris, London and Brussels. The lengthy exchange of letters with his younger brother Theo started in August in The Hague.

On 13 June, Vincent was posted to Goupil's London branch, where he was to stay until 15 May - apart from a three-month transfer to Paris. Then, against his will, he was posted permanendy to Paris.

Vincent van gogh date of death

His aversion to the art trade grew steadily. He immersed himself in the Bible and lived in seclusion. Vincent worked as a teacher at a boarding school in Ramsgate from mid-April until July, when he moved to a post in Isleworth on the outskirts of London, where he was also allowed to preach occasionally. Lack of opportunities prompted him to return to the Netherlands at Christmas and he worked briefly in a bookshop in Dordrecht.

In May he moved to Amsterdam to prepare himself for theological studies. In May he gave this up and, after a brief training in Laeken outside Brussels, moved in December to the Borinage region of Belgium, where he worked among the miners as an evangelist. In August , Van Gogh decided to become an artist. To prepare himself, he started copying drawings and reproductions of work by Jean-Francois Millet, the painter of peasant life.

He stayed in Brussels in the winter and met the painter Anthon van Rappard there. He received financial support from Theo. In April he returned to live with his parents in Etten.