Vincent Willem van Gogh pioneering images of a restless artist Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) applies for good reason as a pioneer of modern painting. His style is arrested partly large area coverage and the only hint of representation of nature and people quite clearly yet Impressionism with his. At the same time are quite even expressionistic trains to recognize. Always restless man, who entered no compromises and so often offended the building rules, he created more than 1,000 drawings and almost 900 pictures all from his last decade of life. This tremendous productivity is due to a huge drive which brought him even however no fame and too little money.
Until 1890, in his last year, got some of his paintings in exhibitions and were even quite successful. But above all they strengthened its reputation as an avant-garde artist, which in turn inspired his progressive-minded colleagues to imitate. Van Gogh lived in many different places, could endure it but never long on one. Sometimes got bored soon the environment which however rarely occurred. Much more often, he got together with his fellow. Because van Gogh felt always attacked and personally attacked. This restlessness and the proximity to the Lone Wolf, however, tremendous impact had on his work.
The rainfall in his paintings are which so fascinate us. Van Gogh has never visited an Art Academy. Instead he taught largely self the techniques himself, by he first copied old masters, notably Frans Hals and Rembrandt, where he then interpreted the style in your own way and formed from. The period from 1880 to 1885 he spent in Brussels and Holland and took over the predominantly dark shades, the thick and clearly visible brushwork and the waiving of details that had to give the overall impression in those years. His most important oil painting, this phase is not he the potato eaters, in that only great passion because of the appearance of the simple, almost humble life laid, but also with great effort the peasant family as a whole clustered.