At the stop of 2009 in Amsterdam, a well-known correspondence in between the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh and his brother Theo was published for the first time. These six guides contain hundreds of letters alongside with illustrations to them. Authors of this useful resource have created a specialised dictionary of the "Van Gogh time" explaining names of geographical destinations and popular people today of the time described in the letters, art phrases and Dutch phrases utilized in the correspondence.
The Van Gogh brothers commenced their correspondence after the more youthful Theo had visited Vincent in the Hague. At the time Vincent was 19 and Theodorus was 15. The brothers held creating letters to each and every other for 18 many years (1872 - 1890), 697 of which have survived to our days. Of these, only 36 letters ended up written by Theo, who treated his brother's letters with far more respect: thanks to that now we can go through 661 letter of the genius artist.
Initial letters have been limited and basic. For instance, in 1 of them Vincent asked his brother to give up smoking pipe and to study operates of great artists and writers. But by and by the elder brother started sending Theo his pencil sketches from the peasants' everyday living and in general letters slowly grew to become much more thorough. Vincent getting identified a grateful listener in his brother connected to him his views on lifestyle and artwork. In these letters - penned both in Dutch and French - the artist described much more than 300 paintings he was operating on at the instant. Moreover, quite a few gurus imagine that this correspondence is not merely of a literary interest - a big amount of his letters the painter accompanied with sketches to the paintings he was functioning at the moment.
All the way through his entire existence Theodorus was monetarily aiding his elder brother allowing him to concentrate solely on his artwork. Theo staying knowledgeable of Vincent's sensitivity towards this experimented with unique methods. At first Theo had been assuring his brother that it was their father who had been sending him funds. But sooner or later the artist located out who was in reality helping him. All his existence he was uneasy because of the fact that he depended on his more youthful brother. He wasn't either considerably consoled by the justification that that was Theo's way of contributing to the development of his paintings and that they would divide income from paintings' sale in long term. Notwithstanding the fact that Theo was an art vendor he didn't take care of to promote any of his brother's functions.
In 1884 the brothers manufactured a deal. In trade for Vincent's paintings, Theo committed to offer his brother with 200 francs a month along with brushes and canvases of the highest quality. The younger brother was offering the artist with garments and was having to pay for his clinical therapy. In accordance to a single version Vincent committed suicide mainly because of guilt that he was feeling prior to Theo who had to support not only Vincent, but also his spouse and kid and an previous mom. On June 27, 1890 Vincent van Gogh shot himself. He had positively refused healthcare treatment and died two days afterwards in the palms of his beloved brother. Vincent's final - unfinished - letter to Theo was discovered in his pocket following his suicide.
Church in Auvers-sur-Oise wherever Vincent had shot himself didn't permit bury him in its cemetery. But the burial was permitted in the village of Mery not far from city and on July 30, 1890 Vincent van Gogh was buried. Theo was desperate immediately after his brother's loss of life and outlived him only by 6 months. He was originally buried in Utrecht, but in 1914 Theo's widow - Jonanna Bonger-van Gogh, ardent admirer of van Gogh's work - re-buried him in the cemetery of Auvers, in close proximity to Vincent. Their graves are nevertheless there.
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