Wall Clock Vincent Van Gogh Portrait with Bandaged Head 40 x 40 cm Beautiful, original polished glass clock with the famous work of Vincent Van Gogh "Portrait with Bandaged Head" 1889 silkscreen executed on frosted glass. "Gauguin severed ear of Vincent van Gogh finished ' Shared interest in a woman and a difference in the cost approach painter Vincent van Gogh's ear. Unlike the current theories believe that two German scientists and fellow painter Gauguin amateur fencer the ear of his friend declined. Art historians Hans Kaufmann and Rita Wild Goose herlazen for ten years police reports, witness statements and letters of Van Gogh and Gauguin. In their book "Van Gogh's Ohr, Paul Gauguin und der des Schweigens Pact," which appeared in 2008, describing their version of the oorincident. They argued that Gauguin by Van Gogh invited his "Yellow House" in Arles in southern France to paint it together. Gauguin was not that pleased with Christmas and he grabbed his stuff and wanted to leave. On the street came to a meeting. They would fight over their shared interest in Rachel, a prostitute, and the proper way of painting. Van Gogh pleaded for painting from Gauguin from reality and the imagination. Vincent was born in Zundert, Brabant, a small village near the Belgian border, the son of the minister Theodorus van Gogh and Anna Cornelia Carbentus. Exactly one year before his birth, they had already received a William Vincent, but died the same day. Overall, the couple three boys and three girls, including brother Theo, four years after Vincent was born. As a child, Vincent was a taciturn, somewhat introverted boy. At age eight he went to the village school, but next year he was already out of school. Instead, he received home schooling. As of October 1, 1864 Vincent went to boarding school in Zevenbergen Provily January where he stayed for two years. On September 15, 1866, he enrolled at the State High School King Willem II Tilburg. In the second year he was taken out of school, possibly because his father could not pay the school. On his sixteenth Vincent junior clerk at the Hague branch of the art dealers Goupil & Cie. This was originally the art trade of his uncle Vincent van Gogh, who subsequently became a partner of the art dealers Goupil in Paris. In 1872, Vincent began to correspond with his younger brother Theo. This came by January 1, 1873 in the service of Goupil & Cie in the branch in Brussels. In June of that year, Vincent placed the branch in London. He fell in love with the daughter of his landlady, but she was already engaged to a former boarder and Vincent made a depressive period. In 1873 he was briefly placed at the head office in Paris, and then the branch in London. In 1874 he was again briefly in the office. His depression continued and by April 1, 1876, he was fired. His uncle Vincent was deeply disappointed in his nephew and took his hands off him. Vincent was a teacher in Ramsgate, and teacher and assistant preacher at Isleworth. On November 4 he held his first sermon. From January 1877 he was again in the Netherlands. He worked briefly in a bookshop in Dordrecht, and in May he moved to Amsterdam to prepare for the state, which would give him access to study theology. He was staying with his uncle Johannes van Gogh, who was commander of the naval shipyard in Amsterdam. Vincent hooked off in 1878, no state had done, among other things due to his lack of interest in Latin and Greek. He followed a short training at a missionary school in Laeken, near Brussels. In December 1878 he was sent to the Borinage, where he worked as miners lay preacher. During this period he began his artistic vocation. He made many sketches and drawings expressive, taking inspiration from masters such as Rembrandt and Millet. In 1880 he befriended the young artist Anthon van Rappard. He now had money from his younger brother Theo. Now first began his explosive but dramatic odyssey, which hardly ten years time. The friendship with Van Rappard came after an unfortunate misunderstanding an end, after Vincent has spent half year in Brussels. During the next five years he lived with his parents by now had moved to Etten Helvoirt. He continued in this period focus on the art and made many - increasingly implemented - drawings and paintings. Initially he was very attracted by the idea of drawing for magazines and thus are making money and it was long before he let go of this ideal. Then he lived independently in the Hague, and in Nuenen. He wrestled in The Hague with a problematic relationship with 'Sin', whose real name was Christine Hoornik. It was a poor woman with an alcohol problem and a past as a prostitute. She bore a son in 1882, but have never found evidence that Vincent was the father. The relationship deteriorated rapidly and Sien picked up her old profession of prostitute again. Vincent was the end of 1881 at the age of 28 for about three weeks with his cousin Anton Mauve (who was married to his cousin Jet Carbentus) Hague in his studio work. Through him he came into contact with the work by Jaap and Matthijs Maris, JH Weissenbruch H.W. Mesdag, G.H. Jozef Israels and Breitner. Vincent mauve gave painting lessons. His influence on Vincent was greater than generally assumed. Themes such as diggers, potato eaters and wood sellers, he Mauve taken. Through his relationship with Sien Hoornik Vincent came into conflict with Mauve and Tersteeg, his former boss at Goupil. Anton Mauve on February 5, 1888 at the age of fifty has not suddenly died at Arnhem, in Arles Vincent wore his Souvenir de Mauve, pink flowering peach trees, to him. Drenthe Drawbridge in Nieuw-Amsterdam (1883) In 1883 he broke the relationship with Sien and departed for The Hague Drenthe, where he arrived on September 11, 1883 in Hoogeveen. This choice was motivated by his brother Theo at the Paris Salon of 1882 a landscape painting by the German painter Max Liebermann had been noticed in Drenthe. Even a visit from family friend and painter Anton van Rappard previously Drenthe was one reason to visit this province to leave. Van Gogh spent three weeks at innkeeper Zuckerman Albertus Hoogeveen. During this period he made excursions and devoted himself to painting landscapes and figures. On October 2 of that year he moved by barge to New Amsterdam. There he took up residence in the inn of Hendrik Scholte. This house was restored in 2002: the museum 'Van Gogh House "recalls Van Gogh's stay in Drenthe. On December 4, 1883 he went back to Hoogeveen to the next day to take the train to his parents in Nuenen. Academic flop The Potato Eaters (1885) In his paintings from this period Vincent traveled often harsh peasant life, the end of April 1885 until his first, however sad, but very expressive masterpiece created: The Potato Eaters. In November of that year, Van Gogh to Antwerp where he was a small room in question. In January, he then enrolled at the Academy. He was 33 years. Despite his admiration for the coloring and brushwork of Rubens did he not full three months, he became exhausted and overworked. The hands of Eugene Siberdt, a teacher of the course "Drawing figure from life, Van Gogh decided to leave the academy. The same teacher will ten years later (1896) also present highly esteemed Eugene Van Mieghem rod on hunting. In Antwerp, Vincent was ill and had lost some teeth. Moreover, syphilis has found in him. Perhaps it is here to explain why he was in February 1886 a very remarkable picture painted of a skeleton smoking a cigarette. Also, some believe that this disease is one explanation for attacks Vincent nerve in his later life. Paris 54 rue Lepic, Paris In March 1886 he left unexpectedly Belgium. He went to live with Theo in Paris, 54 Rue Lepic in Montmartre, where he got his own studio. Then came his artistic breakthrough, however, in his final three years of life. He became friends with Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Emile Bernard, as he admired the flower still lifes by Adolphe Monticelli, Eugene Delacroix's romantic and allegorical Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. At the same time he was impressed by the Japanese prints he collected avidly. More important was his contact with French Impressionism, ten years after the creation. The series of "Salons des Impressionistes" was over and Paul Signac, with whom he often went painting in Asnières, struggled with the impressionist and post-ism Division. Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Camille Pissarro and Armand Guillaumin among his acquaintances. The relationship between Vincent and Theo came under pressure for some time when it appeared that Vincent constantly arguing with everybody and made. Only at the end of Vincent's stay snapped the relationship again and again the brothers were very close bond. Also during this period worked tirelessly Vincent hard at the expense of his health. Arles Parisian life was very busy for a weakening of the Van Gogh and often gray and cold. He was 34 years old when he left Paris in February 1888. He went to Arles in southern France in the Camargue. It was already cold here: it was freezing and there was snow. Under the French southern sun, Vincent van Gogh's most remarkable work in a feverish pace, sometimes several in one day. It was however his last two years of life, with dramatic crises. He wanted to explore the Mediterranean and went for five days at the nearby Les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, where he constantly made sketches and drawings of the area. Back in Arles he brought his famous "Fishing Boats on the beach" on the canvas. His characterization using portraits created in this period, as the Zouave and Roulin and Eugene Boch. Quarrel with Gauguin He hired the "Yellow House" (so too is a painting by Vincent van Gogh see Yellow House), painted the impressive "Night Café" and processed exceptional motifs of harvest, vineyards and cypresses. On October 23, 1888 Paul Gauguin came to stay with him, but barely two months later the fracture, during a quarrel about the local cafe owner. Both were in love with her so she had painted her many times. Van Gogh took his razor out to Gauguin, who just could not defend but Van Gogh cut his ear lobe off accidentally. Others claim that he is his own power a piece of his ear cut off and that the tinnitus from which he suffered here rise to it. German art historians Hans Kaufmann and Rita Wild Goose studied for ten years police reports, witness statements and letters from the two painters. They claim Paul Gauguin have been planning the Yellow House in Arles after a stay of two months to leave. Van Gogh would chase him angrily walked the streets, where a dispute would arise and Gauguin lashed out his sword and with Van Gogh's ear afhiew. Then they would have agreed to speak about: Gauguin to prosecution for the infliction of injury to escape and Van Gogh to maintain the friendship. Subsequently, Van Gogh's ear to a prostitute gave back and went home. German art historians find support for their position in the latest letter from Van Gogh to Gauguin. In it he wrote: "You're quiet, I will too." In letters to his brother Theo, believe it implicit references to the incident to be identified. In 2008 they published their findings in a book (see Literature) [1]. Curator Leo Jansen Van Gogh Museum rejects their conclusion. The evidence are largely pulled out of context. [2] In January 1889 he was again restored and he frantically working on several versions of "La Berceuse", which Madame Roulin model Sat Furthermore, he painted new variations "Sunflowers". Residents were however concerned by the "vagabond" in the "Yellow House" [3]. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence Theo married in April in Amsterdam to Johanna Bonger Gesina. It went as good with Vincent and he was taken to Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Saint-Paul-setting de-Mausole at the foot of the Alpilles. They even founded a small workshop in which he could paint during the increasingly rare moments without a nervous breakdown. It was the era of "Irises" and "Lilac". The name Van Gogh was now spread to Belgium in January 1890 he was invited to the exhibition of Les XX in Brussels. He did participate in five paintings. This exhibition was "The Red Vineyard" bought by Anna Boch. The nervous breakdowns followed each other, but Van Gogh continued to work in April showed Theo ten works at the Salon des Independants ". Vincent left the institution at Saint-Remy-de-Provence and traveled to Auvers-sur-Oise, where Dr Gachet lived. In transit he visited Theo and his wife in Paris. Auvers Grave of Vincent van Gogh and his brother In May he arrived in Auvers, and let out an attic room in the inn Ravoux. Again, he painted portraits, including the famous Dr. Gachet. The endless yellow corn fields with their dark, often swirling around Auvers skies were now repeated motifs. Theo and his wife Jo came again one day to spend with him in June and in July he went again to Paris to visit them to go. His last days On July 27, 1890, 37 years old, wounded Van Gogh himself in the chest with a pistol. He wanted to shoot himself through the heart, but made a classic mistake by thinking that the heart near the left nipple is. He missed this and died on July 29 to internal bleeding with Theo at his side. Six months later died of Theo. It left behind a son, Vincent William, the grandfather of the famous filmmaker and columnist Theo van Gogh (1957-2004). Vincent and Theo are buried in the cemetery of Auvers-sur-Oise