- NAME: Vincent van Gogh - OCCUPATION: Painter - BIRTH DATE:
March 30, 1853 - DEATH DATE: July 29, 1890 - EDUCATION: Brussels
Academy - PLACE OF BIRTH: Zundert, Netherlands - PLACE OF DEATH:
Auvers-sur-Oise, France - Full Name: Vincent Willem van Gogh -
AKA: Vincent van Gogh - AKA: van Gogh - Nickname: "Christ of the
Coal Mines" Best Known For Vincent van Gogh is considered the
greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, although he remained
poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. Vincent Van Gogh
- Full Episode (44:14) Watch a short video about Vincent Van
Gogh and find out why the famous artists life came to a tragic
end. Work and solitude took its toll on van Gogh, and he started
to act strangely from paint and turpentine fumes. Vincent van
Gogh cut off his ear and delivered it to a prostitute. While
hospitalized, van Gogh worked in a studio set up by his brother
Theo. Inspired by a dream, Vincent van Gogh painted "The Starry
Night." He took his own life one year later at age 37 in Auvers
sur Oise, nea