Van Gogh has always been trending for his paintings but never knew he was curious death that left many people curious, so let's see!
A lot of people confirm that the death of Van Gogh is a suicide, but his writings can suggest that he was murdered.
The artist Vincent Willem Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Zender, Netherlands. he was the oldest child between his brothers and the last surviving one as he had five other siblings and he was close to Theo, he left school early before graduating and when he was 16 years old he began his art career at the coupil and cie (art deal with his uncle), he first worked in Hague, London and then Paris as he was dismissed from the company before he completes the age of 23.
In 1881 he wondered after the loss of his job for five years around Europe, he worked dead-end jobs and then moved back to live with his parents, his older brother (Theo) worked at the same company that Vincent worked with but his ranks got up so was promoted to be manager and Theo started to send money to his brother for few years, Vincent moved back and forth to his parents him who were worried about him due to the feeling of lack of direction in his life.
In his 30's, Vincent wanted to pay back the money that his brother Theo has sent to help him out, he began to draw paintings and sending them to Theo to sell in Paris, but the work wasn't interesting for French people, but after five years the life of the paintings he did start to form as this style of painting began to collide with the form of living in Europe.
He moved his painting to better and lighter colors and developed his characteristic style, he also did portraits, especially self-portraits and city scenes, but unfortunately, this time of his art beginning to form with the life situation as he had mental issues at that time.
In 1888, he took his own ear out and wrapped it up to give it as a present for a sex worker as after this day he had to go to the hospital and stayed until early 1889 as after he got out of the hospital and he checked himself and went into a psychiatric hospital, during the one year that he stayed in this hospital he created one of the most famous paintings that he did.
In his first week, he started to paints the irises in the garden in front of him in the hospital and called it Irises then the Starry Night (one of the most famous paintings in the world) as it was by Vincent imaginations as it depicts the view from the aslyum.
Irises Painting.
In January 1890 his brother Theo and his wife welcomed a new baby born child and named him like his uncle (Vincent Van Gogh), as Vincent sent them a painting from the hospital and called it "Almond Blossom" as a gift for his nephew, it was stated by asylum that Vincent did about 150 paintings and the paintings started to be in exhibits and having positive reviews, after getting released from the hospital he moved to Auvers Sur Oise, this area had other artists and not that far from Paris which was easy for him to visit his brother in Paris.
One of the visits to his brother, Theo told him he wanted to start his own business alone but Vincent was scared of him and his family, but on July 27th Vincent was doing business and then went back but the jacket was closed up to his neck and limping to his room, the owner went up to him and saw him on the bed curled up and Vincent stated "I wounded myself" as he revealed that there's a bullet hole under his ribs.
Theo went the day after to see his brother laying down on his bed smoking as he died after midnight cradled by his brother that he wanted to die like this, he ended his life when he was 37 years old leaving behind nearly 1,300 works of art, but it never found out that where is the location of the shooting neither the time.
After all, what happened there are some famous theories that were made about Vincent.
Theory one:
Vincent killed himself, he took all the paintings and went to the wheat field where he always painted and shot himself and fainted, he was revived and woke up and wanted to find the gun to finish but never found it so he went back to the Inn.
Theory two:
Vincent joked about death a lot and said even before as told if he ever felt a burden on his brother he will go, but the odd thing is it is weird if anyone wants to end their life is to aim under his rips as the weirder is that the bullet didn't exit his body which means the gun was far away as to how would he drop the gun so far from his reach that he couldn't finish himself as if he actually passed out he would have more blood on his shirt.
Theory three:
All the left paintings that were supposedly left in the field were gone and no gun was found in the whole area but because he was a religious man he stated that when he had these thoughts which really makes people think did he actually died from murder or he actually killed himself? which a theory that he was shot by local boys but vincent wanted to hide their identity because people there liked him being angry and stated that they pranked him a lot with brushing hot chili because he put the tip of the painting brush on his mouth and one time the boys put a snake into his painting gear.
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-Farah Kareem
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