Van Gogh Report
Vincent Willem van Gogh is born on March 30, 1853, in Zundert, in the south of the Netherlands. Four years later, in 1857, Vincent's brother, Theodorus (Theo), is born. At the age of 16, in July 1869, Vincent started an apprenticeship at Goupil & Cie, international art dealers with headquarters in Paris. In June 1873, Vincent is moved to Goupil in London. Vincent still continues to work on his art daily. He admires the realistic paintings of peasant life by Jean-François Millet and Jules Breton. Gradually Vincent loses interest in his work and turns to the Bible. When he is refused admittance in theology school, Vincent briefly enters a missionary school near Brussels and in December 1878 leaves for the Borinage, a coal-mining area in southern Belgium, to work as a lay preacher. Vincent identifies with the miners, sleeping on the floor and giving away his belongings. His extreme commitment draws disfavour from the church and he is dismissed. At his parents' house......
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