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Commonly called Sien Hoornik, Clasina Maria Hoornik (1850–1904) lived with van Gogh during much of his time in The Hague from 1881 to 1883. Van Gogh used Sien, a pregnant prostitute, as a model for his work and later took Sien and her daughter into his home.
Apr 25, 2019 · In his short, 37-year life, Vincent van Gogh had only one live-in girlfriend, Sien Hoornik, a prostitute he hired to be his model. And just 21 years after he shot himself in a field in northern France, Hoornik also died at her own hand—just as she told the artist she would.
Apr 25, 2019 · Sien Hoornik, whom he met in The Hague, was working as a prostitute when Van Gogh approached her to model for his drawings. They quickly developed a relationship. Sien and her young...
Sorrow is a drawing by Vincent van Gogh, produced in 1882. The work, created two years after Van Gogh had decided to become an artist, depicts 32-year-old pregnant woman Clasina Maria Hoornik, familiarly known as Sien.
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Jun 29, 2024 · Sien Hoornik was a single mother prostitute born into abject poverty who gave birth to four children (two of whom died), and who was wracked by venereal diseases throughout her life. Van Gogh took her and her children in while she worked for him as a model in what some consider to be his only romantic relationship.
A year later, Vincent got to know Sien Hoornik on the streets of The Hague. Sien worked as a prostitute, was pregnant and already had a young daughter. Vincent wanted to take care of them, and moved them into the little studio where he was living.
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Mar 29, 2019 · Sien Hoornik, the prostitute he lived with in The Hague the following year, was three years older. Margot Begemann, his neighbour in Nuenen with whom he became infatuated in 1884, was...
