Vincent van Gogh - Short Biography
Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch painter. His work falls under Post-Impressionism; an art movement that succeeded nineteenth-century impressionism.
Vincent van Gogh was born in Zundert, on March 30, 1853, exactly one year after his mother gave birth to a stillborn child, whom his parents had also named Vincent. His parents were Theodorus van Gogh (1822-1885), who was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and Anna Cornelia Carbentus (1819-1907). He had two brothers and three sisters,