Vincent van Gogh Van Gogh's fame reached its first peak in Austria and Germany before World War I, helped by the publication of his letters in three volumes in 1914. His letters are expressive and literate, and have been described as among the foremost 19th-century writings of their kind. These began a compelling mythology of Van Gogh as an intense and dedicated painter who suffered for his art and died young. In 1934, the novelist Irving Stone wrote a biographical novel of Van Gogh's life titled "Lust for Life", based on Van Gogh's letters to Theo. This novel and the 1956 film further
Outskirts of Paris (Van Gogh) the countryside, whereby city and country life were often juxtaposed, sometimes in the form of trains for factories blotting the countryside." Of Van Gogh's painting "Outskirts of Paris" (F264), Schwartz and Przyblyski write that although Van Gogh provides dots of color in a bleak terrain, "The factories - for that is what those lumpish buildings are - will replace the windmill, and the villas will march across the mud and cornfields until they reach the premonitory gas standard." Outskirts of Paris (Van Gogh) Outskirts of Paris are paintings that Vincent van Gogh made in 1887, while he was living in