Vincent Van Gogh, the genius unrecognized in his own lifetime
Vincent Van Gogh was born in Brabant in the Netherlands in
1853. As a young man he worked as an art dealer in London
and Paris. He was dismissed f rom this job because he had
argued with customers about art.
In 1881 he tried to commit suicide. He was depressed because
he had fallen in love with his cousin, but she had rejected him.
In 1886 he went to Paris to study art, and it was while he was
studying that he met Degas, Pissarro, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec,
Monet, and Renoir.