Vicent van Gogh

Vicent van Gogh was a painter neerlanes who was born in 1853. From a very young was interested in drawing. His first job was in an art gallery.

In his youth he began working as a pastor and then went as a missionary when he was 26 years old. In those moments he began to draw people from that place.

There he painted his first major work the ``potato eaters´´. The quality of his work was only recognised after his death.

After suffering frequent bouts of mental illness throughout his life, led him to suicide in 1890. It had a great influence on the art of the 20th century.