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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 25 July 1888)
... with
sheep for chocolate boxes.
Not only my pictures but I myself have become haggard of
late, almost like Hugo van der Goes in the picture by Emil
Wauters.
Only, having got my whole beard carefully shaved off I think
that I am as much like... | Article by Dr. M. B. Medes da Costa
(December 2 1910)
... master and pupil, was very pleasant indeed. The
seemingly reticent young man - our ages differed but little,
for I was twenty-six then, and he was undoubtedly over twenty -
immediately felt at home, and notwithstanding his lank reddish
hair and his many freckles,... | Article by M. J. Brusse
(May 26 1914)
... I cannot say I was particularly interested.
No, he was not an attractive
boy, with those small, narrowed, peering eves of his and, in fact,
he was always a bit unsociable.
“And then I remember well that he always preferred to
wear a top hat,... |
Newspaper article
(April 12 1922)
... me with the following particulars.
One day the Reverend Mr. Van Gogh, from a small town in
Brabant, appeared at the school and introduced a sandy-haired,
somewhat round-shouldered young man who wanted to be a
pupil.... He was accepted.
Soon... | Article by Benno J. Stokvis
(1926)
... he was highly
respected by the farmers. When he set off for work, he
generally wore a sort of raincoat and a sou'wester. In general
his attire was rough [“raw”]. Every day he might be
seen walking with a small campstool under one arm and a square
... | Newspaper article by D. Gestel
(10 October 1930)
... the Roman Catholic Church at
Nuenen…There he was standing before us, that short,
square-built little man, called by the rustics “het
schildermenneke,” “the little painter
fellow.” His sunburned, weather-beaten face was framed... |
Exerpt from La vie tragique de Vincent van Gogh
(1939)
... remember well his
arrival at Pâturages; he was a blond young man of
medium stature and with a pleasant face; he was well dressed,
had excellent manners, and showed in his personal appearance
all the characteristics of Dutch cleanliness.
... | Article by Dr. M. E. Tralbaut
(1948)
... of November 13, 1927, Tralbaut, p. 140):
And there Van Gogh appeared on the scene - the Van Gogh, who
was the spitting image of the portrait the Englishman Levens
made of him, and which was reproduced in the first number of
The Present and Presently.... | Article by V. W. van Gogh
(1949)
... along
on walks, and talked a lot with him. He wore blue linen
trousers and a smock, and had a little red chin-tuft; he was
“an ugly creature.”
Vincent had painted his father weaving in the little house
where Dekkers was living now;... |
