A photo of Van Gogh's The Potato Eaters, one of the works stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Rijksmuseum Vincent Van Gogh, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Vincent Willem van Gogh (March 30, 1853 - July 29, 1890) was a Dutch painter, generally considered one of the greatest painters in European art history. He produced all of his work (some 900 paintings and 1100 drawings) during a period of only ten years before he became mentally ill and committed suicide. 固opFoto