1880

This is a timeline of Van Gogh's life, from the 30th of march 1853, when he was born, to the 29th of juli 1890, when he commits suicide.
If you scroll down now, you'll see a timeline. Just click a year and the information will appear with a funny comic.

	Vincent gets fired and moves to Brussel to start drawing. He get's a montly grand from his brother Theo. Vincent is now 27 yrs old and a failure in the eyes of his family due to his inability to hold down a job. He is under pressure to start earning a living. At the same time he is wrestling with trying to understand his spirituality. He decides that a means to kill two birds with one stone is art- he sustain himself from his work and at the same time express himself to people through his art. He writes: "To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture." From this time he approached life an his art with renewed enthusiasm, in spite of suffering often from acute poverty. His brother Theo, an artist who was living in Paris, agreed to encourage and finance his decision to become a painter. Vincent moved to Brussels studying independently and sometimes in the company of Dutch artist Anthon Van Rappard.