Vincent Willem van Gogh born on 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890 was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who later became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and self-portraits, and are characterized by bold colors and dramatic, impulsive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. Not commercially successful, he fought with severe depression and poverty, afterward leading to his suicide at age thirty-seven.