Dutch scientists solve mystery behind Vincent Van Gogh’s 'Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear'

Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Self-Portrait with Bandd Ear’ painting that has long been drawn to arguments “Why did Van Gogh cut off his ear?” has finally got a credible answer. Dutch painter h lost his left ear under mysterious circumstances that h led some scientists to speculate over years that iconic painter was probably attacked by his French rival painter Paul Gauguin. While some ors argued that Gogh’s mental health condition could have been directly associated with artists’ injury. 

Recently, researchers at University Medical Center Groningen, Nerlands, have established ory of an act of self-mutilation related to Gogh’s borderline personality disorder. In open research published in Qualitative Psychology journal scientist Runyan h outlined 13 hyposes about psychological causes that may have been involved in incident and evaluate each of m using a Popperian methodological approach of “conjecture” and “refutation”. author first sorts hyposes with respect to three questions: Why did ear-cutting event occur when it did? Why did Vincent mutilate himself as part of this event? Earlier Vincent Gogh Museum Chicago h claimed that Van Gogh cut off his ear following a furious row with Gaugin at Yellow House Stone, and was mitted to hospital in Arles. 

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Acute alcohol withdrawal

Scientists at University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG)  in joint research with activity of University of Groningen and Acemic Hospital Groningen (AZG) food that Gogh’s mutation of ear was related to acute alcohol withdrawal symptom. team investigated 900 handwritten letters that Dutch artist dispatched to his bror o and ors that revealed Gogh’s psychopathology and his personality disorder.

“In se letters, he described what he went through in his life, including his mental health problems, although it must also be clear that Van Gogh wrote his letters t for his doctors but for his bror o and or relatives to inform or to calm m down,” researchers wrote.

While 35 doctors, psychiatrists, and international art historians could t conclude cause of Gogh’s one lost ear, UMCG scientists said that “Van Gogh suffered twice from delirium caused by alcohol withdrawal” according to a Posthumous psychiatric diagsis. Gogh died on 29 July 1890 as a result of a suicide attempt earlier. 

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