![]() ![]() At the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts he received more traditional training. His art education in Ostend had been limited and traditional. The many masks in the shop and the apartment above provided Ensor with his most compelling subject, one that make him famous.Įnsor studied fine art in Brussels from 1877 to 1880. The family ran a gift, curio and seashell shop. More than a little of this attitude seems to have been adopted by his son. It seems the set-back left him increasingly resentful of narrow materialism and limited intellectual scope of Ostend. He had hoped to start a new life for the family in the USA but his foray across the Atlantic coincided with the Civil War and he had to return. Ensor revered his father, whom he described as exceptionally intelligent, handsome and athletic. He met his future wife while on holiday in her native city. His mother was Belgian and his father English. This book illustrates paintings and photographs, giving an account of major events and relationships, with lengthy quotations from letters and press articles.Įnsor was born in Ostend in 1860. ![]() Ensor is a significant artist in the development of Post-Impressionism and the foundation of Expressionism and has gone to be one of the most influential of Belgian artists. Xavier Tricot, Ensor scholar and author of his catalogue raisonné, has written James Ensor: Chronicle of His Life, a summary biography of James Ensor (1860-1949). ![]()
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