Letters to Brother Theo. First Complete Edition

Vincent van Gogh is a great Dutch post-impressionist artist who had a tremendous impact on the painting of the 20th century. In his short life, van Gogh created more than two thousand works – portraits, self-portraits, landscapes, still lifes, panels. His fate is full of mysteries, and his artistry has occupied the minds of people for decades – researchers, artists, and art lovers. What was he really like? How did he live and what did he think about? Why did he choose the path of a painter? Where did he seek inspiration? These and many other questions are answered by van Gogh himself in his letters to brother Theo. These letters, which have become a gem of the epistolary genre, deeply move with their sincerity. Over the past hundred years, they have become no less popular than the artist's famous paintings and have been translated into all European languages. The wise, piercing, profound words of van Gogh addressed to his brother make one ponder about life and try to understand how the person who created such colorful and vivid paintings saw the world.