You did know he produced a number of works of art that continue to be widely sought after.
It's after the ear cutting event that he appears to have had what used to be called "a mental breakdown". He went to an asylum. He got out. He went back. Eventually during the period when he was doing the "Crow" paintings (he did several) he managed to shoot himself.
Leftwingtards believe he commited suicide out of an inability to deal with existential angst. Others think he had an accident due to his failure to take proper firearms training from local experts.
You be the judge.
People widely seek after cans of poop produced by modern "artists." Why? Becaue they're hoping to sell them tomorrow for more than what they paid for them today.
No one likes or wants modern art. It's a giant speculative bubble. So many wealthy people are invested in it, that they can't afford for the bubble to collapse. But when it does, when someone finally shouts, "the emperor has no clothes," the bubble will collapse, and I will be laughing my butt off.
Van Gogh drank alot and seemed to be mentally ill to me.