Vincent van Gogh (In Our Time)
1888 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Dutch artist famous for starry nights and sunflowers, self portraits and simple chairs. These are images known the world over, and Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) painted them and around 900 others in the last decade of his short, brilliant life and, famously, in that lifetime he made only one recorded sale.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1888
- Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
- Scramble for Africa (1881)
- Dreyfus Affair (1894)
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Berlin Conference (1884)
- Mao Zedong (1893)
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881)