A 1933 English translation of original Meier-Graefe book published in German in 1922.The first and most influential of all Van Gogh biographies. Meier-Graefe, the German art historian and novelist, was the first to see Van Gogh as the bridge between Impressionism and all the modern art movements of the new century, and, glimpsing the power of his mythology, the first to realize that his life was every bit as important as, and inseparable from, his art.