Letters to Theo

14 hrs. 44 min.

Language Russian

Author Vincent van Gogh

Narrator Igor Knyazev

Description

Over a little more than ten years, Van Gogh created more than 2,100 works, including about 860 oil paintings. Among them are portraits, self-portraits, landscapes, and still lifes, featuring olive trees, cypresses, wheat fields, and sunflowers. Most critics didn’t notice Van Gogh until his suicide at the age of 37, preceded by years of anxiety, poverty, and mental breakdown.

A special person in Van Gogh’s life was his brother Theodore (Théodorus). Throughout his life, he provided Vincent with moral and financial support. After the artist’s death, more than 900 letters were found—and most of them were addressed to his brother. Van Gogh proved to be a talented master not only of the brush, but also of the pen. Collected together, these letters form an incomparable human document: they open a door into the world of this brilliant madman, revealing not only the path of his formation, but also showing how a new language of painting was created—one that had a timeless impact on 20th-century art.