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James Ensor, Die Intrige, 1890, Königliches Museum für
Schöne Künste, Antwerpen © Lukas-Art in Flanders
vzw, Foto Hugo Maertens und d/arch.
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Ghosts, skulls, skeletons and other macabre
forms characterise the work of James Ensor (1860-1949). His
works are bizarre, ironic, sometimes aggressive and provocative,
but always underpinned by profound humour. His unusual motifs
reveal the absurdity and grotesqueness of everyday human life.
Ensor had wide-ranging interests: he was as enthusiastic about
the Belgian carnival and Japanese masks as he was about Rembrandt’s
graphic work. In the early 20th century, artists including
Alfred Kubin, Paul Klee and the German Expressionists Emil
Nolde and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner were inspired by his creative
force and radical rejection of the ideal of beauty in European
art history. The exhibition features almost 60 paintings and
also many drawings that are showing for the first time.
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James Ensor, Der Schmerzensmann, Königliches Museum
für Schöne Künste, Antwerpen © Lukas-Art
in Flanders vzw, Foto Hugo Maertens und d/arch.
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