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Vincent van Gogh

1853 - 1890

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Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch: [ˈvɪnsɛnt ˈʋɪləɱ vɑŋ ˈɣɔx] ; 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created approximately 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. His oeuvre includes landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and self-portraits, most of which are characterised by bold colours and dramatic brushwork that contributed to the rise of expressionism in modern art. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vincent van Gogh has received more than 33,346,779 page views. His biography is available in 206 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 199 in 2019). Vincent van Gogh is the most popular painter (up from 2nd in 2019), the most popular biography from Netherlands and the most popular Dutch Painter.

Vincent van Gogh is most famous for his paintings.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Vincent van Gogh ranks 1 out of 2,023. After him are Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Raphael, Rembrandt, Salvador Dalí, Claude Monet, Albrecht Dürer, Edvard Munch, Peter Paul Rubens, Frida Kahlo, and Caravaggio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Vincent van Gogh ranks 1. After him are Cecil Rhodes, Hendrik Lorentz, Wilhelm Ostwald, Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Carl Larsson, Chulalongkorn, Albrecht Kossel, Aleksei Brusilov, José Martí, and Vladimir Solovyov. Among people deceased in 1890, Vincent van Gogh ranks 1. After him are Heinrich Schliemann, Carlo Collodi, Sitting Bull, Gyula Andrássy, William III of the Netherlands, Amadeo I of Spain, César Franck, Duchess Helene in Bavaria, Joseph Merrick, Henri Nestlé, and Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Vincent van Gogh ranks 1 out of 1,646. After him are Rembrandt (1606), Johannes Vermeer (1632), Erasmus (1466), Baruch Spinoza (1632), Piet Mondrian (1872), Johan Cruyff (1947), Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525), Hieronymus Bosch (1450), Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632), Christiaan Huygens (1629), and Hugo Grotius (1583).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Vincent van Gogh ranks 1. After him are Rembrandt (1606), Johannes Vermeer (1632), Piet Mondrian (1872), Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525), Hieronymus Bosch (1450), Gerrit Dou (1613), Jan Steen (1626), Theo van Gogh (1857), Jacob van Ruisdael (1628), Han van Meegeren (1889), and Pieter de Hooch (1629).

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