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MARIA
HOORNIK
(1850-1904)
A.K.A SIEN
WHY DID WE CHOOSE
SIEN
Before meeting Vincent,
Who was Sein ?
Single mother of two ;
- A 5y/o Girl
- Currently pregnant w a Son
Living in Poverty
-Public Soup Kitchen
- Pieter Hoornik died
-Eldest in family
Cleaning
Seamstress Prostitute
Woman
HISTORY BETWEEN
SIEN VINCENT
Met each
other in
The Hague
Became
Broke up his model
Family Domestic
disapproval Relationship
How did Sien & Vincent met ?
During winter season (The Hague 1881-1883)
Vincent noticed Sien & her daughter by the streets
They were starving
Vincent came to rescue
Made an agreement regarding about work
Vincent took them in to his place
Series of
The best figure Ive
Vincents drawn
artworks of - Vincent Van Gogh
Sein
Sorrow is a
Sien,
drawing Sien with a cigar, Sien
Sewing, sitting on the floor
by Vincent peeling
Half-Figure, beside the
Van Gogh, fireplace, produced potatoes,
produced in
produced in in 1882 produced in
1883
1882. 1883
Siens Family painted by
The Vincent Van Gogh
Vincents parents
pressured him to Pressured
Vincent
abandon Sien
BROKE UP (PART II)
Vincents family
disapproved
Pressured Vincent
religion
differences
BROKE UP (PART III)
Vincent cannot
Sien started
support Sien and
drinking & back
her children
to prostitution
anymore
After the split up, she went back to work as seamstress, cleaning woman, and
possibly as a prostitute
Her children, Maria and Willem, lived with Siens mother and brother, Pieter
respectively
In 1901, Sien married a seaman, Anton Van Wijk
Eventhough she was married, she still lived her life miserably
Sien once told Vincent that she would one day drown herself
She did indeed drown herself in the Schelde River (1904) at the age of 54, 14 years
after Vincents death
Ironically, Vincent prophesied about Siens fate in Letter 216
As long as I drown at the same
time, I dont care. But we felt
distinctly enough that her life
and my life are as
ONE
Vincent Van Gogh