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andere mansarde waar ik sliep: Il n’y a donc personne qui veut m’ouvrir le ventre! Midden in de nacht ik geloof dat er niemand bij hem was en ’t was zoo warm. Ik heb geloof ik nooit een andere docter gezien als zijn vriend de gewezen militaire dokter: C’est ta propre faute, pourquoi t’es-tu tué? Hij had geen instrumenten die dokter. Hij heeft daar gelegen tot dat hij dood was.
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Isn't there anyone willing to open me up! I don't think there was anyone with him in the middle of the night and it was so hot. I don't think I ever saw any other doctor like his friend the retired army doctor: It's your own fault, what did you have to go kill yourself for? He didn't have any instruments this doctor. He lay there until he died.
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Hirschig (at age 23) may indeed have held exhibitions in The Hague and Arnhem in 1890 (the year of Van Gogh's death) and subsequently Amsterdam in 1903. It is also true that a 1922 (not 1912) painting of Hirschig's found its way into
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Hirschig. In addition, Mauve himself was married to Ariëtte (Jet) Sophia Jeannette Carbentus, a first cousin of Vincent van Gogh, and Mauve offered early encouragement and instruction to Van Gogh. It does seem likely therefore that Anton Hirschig's introduction to Van Gogh was facilitated by
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Hirschig's own financial circumstances are not documented nor is a profession or occupation documented for him other than 'kunstschilder' (artist) in the
Hirschig genealogy deposited in the de Lange archive in Alkmaar in 1958. However Hirschig may well have come into money from his mother Anna Swart.
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Il était couché dans sa mansarde sous un toit en zinc. Il faisait terriblement chaud. ’t was in de maand
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Hirschig is mentioned in three of Van Gogh's letters. At first Van Gogh thought Hirschig too "gentil" to be an artist and questions whether he would ever amount to anything. However, in what was to be Van Gogh's last letter (to his brother Theo), he softens his position and says that he thinks
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a short excerpt from a letter of
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Pieter Scheen's entry in the first (1969) and 1981 editions of his lexicon confuses
Hirschig with his sister Matthia Antonia and accordingly gives him the wrong dates while at the same time crediting him with such prodigies as organising an exhibition in The Hague at the age of 13. How much of the
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He lay in his attic room under a tin roof. It was terribly hot. It was August. He stayed there alone for some days. Perhaps only a few. Perhaps many. It seemed to me like a lot. At night he cried out, cried out loud. His bed stood just beside the partition of the other attic room where I slept:
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Van Gogh shot himself in a field on 27 July 1890 and died in the early hours of 29 July. In a letter to Albert
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