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YOUNG VINCENT (C. 1866)/ 2009
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Prints on paper: Portraits 2 | | Medium: | Giclée on Japanese matte paper | | Size (inches): | 16.5 x 11.7 (paper size) | | Size (mm): | 420 x 297 (paper size) | | Edition size: | 25 | | Catalog #: | PP_0119 | | Description: | From an edition of 25. Signed, titled, date, copyright, edition in pencil on the reverse / Aside from the numbered edition of 5 artist's proofs and 2 printer's proofs.
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, Paris, 12 September 1875
Dear Theo,
Flügel, Flügel über's Leben!
Flügel über Grab und Tod!
[Wings, wings to fly above life!
Wings to fly above the grave and death!]
That is what we want, and I am beginning to understand that we can get them. Don't you think Father has them? And you know how he got them? By prayer and the fruit of prayer - patience and faith - and from the Bible that was a light on his path and a lamp ahead of his feet.
This morning I heard a beautiful sermon on the theme: Forget what is behind you; the preacher said for example: Have more hope than memories; what there has been seriousness and blessed in your past life is not lost; wait no longer therefore, you will find it elsewhere, but advance … All these things have become new in Jesus Christ.
Keep heart and believe me,
Your loving brother, Vincent
If it was true that youth and adolescence are only vanity - of course, if one takes into account what is written above and if one dreams that a well employed youth is a treasure, although he breaks off and resumes later, we would have to strive and hope to become men like our father and others. We hope on these two, and pray. Compliments to all that may ask after me.
You know the etching by Rembrandt, “Burgomaster Six,” standing reading before the window? I know that Uncle Vincent and Uncle Cor are very fond of it, and I sometimes think they must have resembled him when they were younger. You also know the portrait of Six when he was older. I think there is an engraving of it in the gallery at The Hague. His life must have been beautiful and serious.
At this time, Vincent was 22 year old
Source: Vincent van Gogh. Letter to Theo van Gogh. Written 12 September 1875 in Paris. Translated by Mrs. Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, edited by Robert Harrison, number 037.
URL: http://webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/3/037.htm.
-www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/3/037.htm?qp=feelings.ambition
Vincent van Gogh -
Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. He was a pioneer of Expressionism with enormous influence on 20th century art, especially on the Fauves and German Expressionists. Some of his paintings are now among the world's best known, most popular and expensive works of art.
Name:
The pronunciation of "Van Gogh" varies somewhat in both English and Dutch. In English it is pronounced /ˌvćn ˈɡɒx/ or sometimes /ˌvćn ˈɡɒf/, especially in the UK, or /ˌvćn ˈɡoʊ/ with a silent gh, especially in the US. In standard Dutch, based on the dialect of Holland, it is Dutch pronunciation: [ˈvɪntsɛnt faŋˈxɔx]. However, though van Gogh's parents were from Holland, he grew up in Brabant and used Brabant dialect in his writing; it is therefore likely that he himself pronounced his name with a Brabant accent: [vɑɲˈʝɔç].[1] In France, where much of his work was produced, it is [vɑ̃ ɡɔɡə].
Biography: Early life (1853–1869)
Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on 30 March, 1853 in Groot-Zundert, a village close to Breda in the province of North Brabant in the southern Netherlands.[2] He was the son of Anna Cornelia Carbentus and Theodorus van Gogh, a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church. Vincent was given the same name as his grandfather — and a first brother stillborn exactly one year before.[3] The practice of reusing a name in this way was not uncommon. Vincent was a common name in the Van Gogh family; his grandfather (1789–1874) had received his degree of theology at the University of Leiden in 1811. Grandfather Vincent had six sons, three of whom became art dealers, including another Vincent who was referred to in Van Gogh's letters as "Uncle Cent." Grandfather Vincent had perhaps been named in turn after his own father's uncle, the successful sculptor Vincent van Gogh (1729–1802).[4] Art and religion were the two occupations to which the Van Gogh family gravitated. His brother Theodorus (Theo) was born on 1 May 1857. There was a third brother, Cor, and three sisters; Elisabeth, Anna and Willemina.[5]
As a child Vincent was serious, silent and thoughtful. In 1860, he attended the Zundert village school, where the only teacher was Catholic and there were around 200 pupils. From 1861 he and his sister Anna were taught at home by a governess, until 1 October 1864, when he went away to the elementary boarding school of Jan Provily in Zevenbergen, the Netherlands, about 20 miles (32 km) away. He was distressed to leave his family home, and recalled this even in adulthood. On 15 September 1866, he went to the new middle school, Willem II College in Tilburg, the Netherlands. Constantijn C. Huysmans, who had achieved a certain success himself in Paris, taught Van Gogh to draw at the school and advocated a systematic approach to the subject. In March 1868 Van Gogh abruptly left school and returned home. His comment on his early years was: "My youth was gloomy and cold and sterile..."[6]
Art dealer and preacher (1869–1878)
In July 1869, at the age of fifteen, he obtained a position with the art dealer Goupil & Cie in The Hague through his Uncle Vincent ("Cent"), who had built up a good business that became a branch of the firm. After his training, Goupil transferred him to London in June 1873, where he lodged at 87 Hackford Road, Brixton[9] and worked at Messrs. Goupil & Co., 17 Southampton Street.[10] This was a happy time for Van Gogh. He was successful at work, and was already, at the age of 20, earning more than his father.[11] He fell in love with his landlady's daughter, Eugénie Loyer, but when he finally confessed his feeling to her, she rejected him, saying that she was already secretly engaged to a previous lodger.[12]
Vincent became increasingly isolated and fervent about religion. His father and uncle sent him to Paris, where he became resentful at how art was treated as a commodity, and he manifested this to the customers. On 1 April 1876, it was agreed that his employment should be terminated.[13]
His religious emotion grew to the point where he felt he had found his true vocation in life and he returned to England to do unpaid work, first as a supply teacher in a small boarding school overlooking the harbour in Ramsgate where he made some sketches of the view. The proprietor of the school relocated to Isleworth, Middlesex and Vincent decided to walk to the new location. This new position did not work out and Vincent became a Methodist minister's assistant in his desire to "preach the gospel everywhere."[14]
At Christmas that year he returned home and then worked in a bookshop in Dordrecht for six months. However, he was not happy in this new position and spent most of his time in the back of the shop either doodling, or translating passages from the Bible into English, French and German.[15] His roommate at the time, a young teacher called Görlitz, later recalled that Vincent ate frugally, preferring not to eat meat.[16][17]
In an effort to support his wish to become a pastor his family sent him to Amsterdam in May 1877 where he lived with his uncle Jan van Gogh, a rear admiral in the navy.[18] Van Gogh prepared for university, studying for the theology entrance exam with his uncle Johannes Stricker, a respected theologian who the first "Life of Jesus" available in the Netherlands. Vincent failed at his studies and had to abandon them. He left his uncle Jan's house in July 1878. He then studied, but failed, a three-month course at the Vlaamsche Opleidingsschool Protestant missionary school in Laeken, near Brussels.
Notes:
1. ^ The difference is that the G is voiced, in contrast to the gh, and that both are palatal consonants (the so-called "Ich-Laut"), rather than velar or uvular (the so-called "Ach-Laut") as in Holland. (The Van Gogh Gallery)
2. ^ Vincent Van Gogh Biography, Quotes & Paintings. Retrieved 14 June 2007.
3. ^ It has been suggested that being given the same name as his dead elder brother might have had a deep psychological impact on the young artist, and that elements of his art, such as the portrayal of pairs of male figures, can be traced back to this. See: Lubin (1972), 82–84
4. ^ Erickson (1998), 9
5. ^ Tralbaut (1981), 24
6. ^ Letter 347. Vincent to Theo, 18 December 1883
9. ^ Hackford Road. vauxhallsociety.org.uk. Retrieved 27 June, 2009.
10. ^ Letter 7. Vincent to Theo, 5 May 1873.
11. ^ Theo's wife later remarked that this was the happiest year of Vincent's life. Wilkie, 34–36
12. ^ Wilkie, 38–52
13. ^ Tralbaut (1981), 35–47
14. ^ Tralbaut (1981), 47–56
15. ^ Callow (1990), 54
16. ^ See the recollections gathered in Dordrecht by M. J. Brusse, Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, May 26 and 2 June 1914.
17. ^ "...he would not eat meat, only a little morsel on Sundays, and then only after being urged by our landlady for a long time. Four potatoes with a suspicion of gravy and a mouthful of vegetables constituted his whole dinner" — from a letter to Frederik van Eeden, to help him with preparation for his article on Van Gogh in De Nieuwe Gids, Issue 1, December 1890. Quoted in Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait; Letters Revealing His Life as a Painter, selected by W. H. Auden, New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, CT. 1961. 37–39.
18. ^ Erickson (1998), 23
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