Vincent van Gogh, 1853-1890

by Ingo F. Walther, Rainer Metzger

Van Gogh, who took up a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairing and self-destructive man. This richly illustrated and expert study follows the artist from the early gloom-laden paintings in which he captured the misery of peasants and workers in his homeland, through his bright and colorful Parisian period, to the work of his final years, spent under a southern sun in Arles.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

256 pages, Paperback

Published October 29, 1999

About the author

Ingo F. Walther was born in Berlin in 1940 and studied medieval studies, literature, and art history in Frankfurt am Main and Munich. He has published numerous books on the art of the Middle Ages and of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Reviews

[Pablo Magán]

Una evolución de la obra de Van Gogh a lo largo de su vida y de las cartas a su hermano. Breve y conciso pero rico en matices.

[Rebecca]

Very interesting. A brilliant artist left way too soon.