Vincent Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam: Tickets Skip the Line From 15€! More A misunderstood genius that became famous only after his death, Vincent Van Gogh is an artist that has forever influenced 19th century art. He was an unhappy, tormented rebel throughout his whole life, but this Dutch artist expressed a unique part of his soul in each one of his paintings. Van Gogh tragically committed suicide at the age of 37 and had sold only one painting during his lifetime, a life full of unhappy love stories and persistent depressive crises. He was a self-taught painter and left a substantial number of pieces, created over the ten-year period from 1880 until 1890.