did vincent van gogh cut off his ear
Lisa-Marie SchÃ¶nberger asks why Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear. Read the answer. Vincent van Gogh cut off his left ear when temperatures flared with Paul Gauguin, the artist with whom he had been working for a while in Arles. Van Goghâs illness revealed itself: he began to hallucinate and suffered attacks in which he lost consciousness. During one of these attacks, he used the knife.