<![CDATA[There are people who did not get acclaim for their work when they were alive and became world-renowned after their death. The world did not take them seriously but got to understand the value of their work when they were no more. You call it their bad luck or their destiny, but their work could not buy them a good life but served million others after them.
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675)
“Young woman seated at the Virginal” painting sold for $30 million at an auction. The first thought that strikes the mind is that the painter would have become a rich fellow but it is not at all so. On the contrary, the Dutch artist who made the painting died in poverty and was said to be under debt. Working as an art dealer and innkeeper, Johannes was hardly known beyond the city of Delft. (Image)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
They have a number of museums that are dedicated to this classy artist of America. Moving from one city to another Edgar tried his luck in Baltimore, Philadelphia and even in New York City. He is the one who started making a living all alone by writing and ended up living in poverty. His wife died of Tuberculosis after two years, when his poems “The Raven” got published. In America and all over world Poe’s work inspired the literature and influenced music, films and television but it happened when he was already gone. (Image)
Alfred Wegener
Alfred Wegener spent all his life making new discoveries and experimenting science. He earned his Astronomy degree from University of Berlin and started studying Polar air circulation. He had all the research to back his theory on continental drift, which eventually got acceptance, but after his death. (Image)
Vincent Van Gogh
Van Gogh’s paintings said to lack the brightness and liveliness that was seen in Impressionist paintings of that time. Even after a lot of criticism, he made more than 900 paintings and sold only one, “Red Vineyard at Arles.” When Vin Gogh committed suicide, his brother’s wife collected all his work and made sure it got the recognition it so richly deserved. (Image)
Paul Gauguin
Known for the experimental use of colors, Paul’s work did not get any recognition until his death. He had developed a synthetist style that took the attention from Impressionism. Many of his paintings were in the collection of Russian Collector, Sergei Shchukin but by that time, he had already died. (Image)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
He was an American author, historian and publisher. He used to work in a pencil factory but writing was always his passion. He got his writing published in newspapers but only occasionally. His biography written by Henry Stephens Salt years after his death got his work noticed. (Image)
Emily Dickson (1830-1866)
All her friends and family members knew that she loved writing but Emily could not get recognition when she was alive. Only eight to ten of Emily’s poems got published when she was alive and about 1800 poems were hidden since she had her personal thoughts on life written in all those. Emily Dickinson lived all alone in her middle age for unknown reasons and after her death, her sister found 40 hand-bound volumes of 1,800 of her poems, each one of which is adored by lovers of literature. (Image)]]>
