Paul Gachet

Paul -Ferdinand Gachet ( born July 30, 1828 in Lille, † January 9, 1909 in Auvers -sur -Oise ) was a French physician. He became famous for treating the painter Vincent van Gogh during his last weeks in Auvers -sur- Oise. Van Gogh had portrayed him in 1890. Gachet was a friend and supporter of the Impressionist art movement, whose painter he supported, and even an ambitious leisure painter. He signed his paintings with " Paul van Ryssel ", which referred to his birthplace, the Flemish name is Ryssel.

Life

Gachet was born in Lille, where he spent his childhood. About 1845 his family moved to Mechelen, because there Gachet's father had opened a new branch of the company for which he worked.

Gachet studied at the University of Paris, among others, Armand Trousseau, and completed his degree in 1858 with work Étude sur la Mélancolie from. After that, he was at first a doctor at clinics Bicêtre and Salpêtrière before he opened a private practice in Paris. There he met Gustave Courbet, Champ Fleury, Victor Hugo and know the early 1870s Paul Cézanne, who was allowed to use the studio Gachet in Auvers -sur -Oise, near Paris. In 1882 he treated Auguste Renoir, who was suffering from pneumonia. Also Gachet was a friend of the chemist Henri Nestlé and prescribed some of his young patients whose new baby milk.

Gachet died in 1909. His grave is located in Division 52 of Père Lachaise in Paris.

Gachet and Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh's brother, the art dealer Theo van Gogh, Gachet sought advice because its expertise and his friendship with artists made ​​him the ideal doctor for Vincent's treatment. Shortly after Gachet's first visit to that doubted, however, that Gachet could help him.

Gachet later moved much criticism, since he after ten weeks of treatment did not have Van Gogh's suicide can be prevented. But van Gogh was either unable or unwilling loud Wilfred N. Arnold to follow the doctor's advice to quit smoking and to renounce the consumption of alcohol. It would, however, probably no other doctor that time succeeded in giving Van Gogh's disease a different direction.

Portraits

Paul Gachet, portrayed by Ambroise DETREZ (1850 /52)

Vincent van Gogh: "Portrait of Dr. Gachet " (1890, first version )

Vincent van Gogh: "Portrait of Dr. Gachet " (1890, second version)

Paul Gachet, portrayed by Norbert Goeneutte (1891 )