James Ensor The Skate Painting ID:: 37487 new11/James Ensor-989237.jpg
The Skate mk126
1892
James Ensor Still life with Blue Jar Painting ID:: 37489 new11/James Ensor-766777.jpg
Still life with Blue Jar mk126
1890-91
James Ensor Seashells Painting ID:: 37490 new11/James Ensor-727694.jpg
Seashells mk126
1933
James Ensor Seashells Painting ID:: 37491 new11/James Ensor-267254.jpg
Seashells mk126
1889
James Ensor Red Cabbages and Onion Painting ID:: 37492 new11/James Ensor-778932.jpg
Red Cabbages and Onion mk126
1913
James Ensor Red Cabbage and Masks Painting ID:: 37493 new11/James Ensor-343675.jpg
Red Cabbage and Masks mk126
1925-30
James Ensor Still life with Blue Vase and Fan Painting ID:: 37494 new11/James Ensor-833549.jpg
Still life with Blue Vase and Fan mk126
1889
James Ensor Harmony in Blue Painting ID:: 37495 new11/James Ensor-693222.jpg
Harmony in Blue mk126
1917
James Ensor Still life with Chinoiseries Painting ID:: 37496 new11/James Ensor-266838.jpg
Still life with Chinoiseries mk126
1928
James Ensor Chinoiseries Painting ID:: 37497 new11/James Ensor-728877.jpg
Chinoiseries mk126
1907
James Ensor James Ensor in his studio Painting ID:: 37498 new11/James Ensor-282928.jpg
James Ensor in his studio mk126
1948
James Ensor Children Dressing Painting ID:: 37499 new11/James Ensor-985839.jpg
Children Dressing mk126
1886
In Ensor-s Oeuvre Children Dressing can be considered a water-shed work between the bourgeois living room and the Lyrical sub-jects to come.
James Ensor Skeleton Looking at Chinoiseries Painting ID:: 37500 new11/James Ensor-979569.jpg
Skeleton Looking at Chinoiseries mk126
1885/Ca,1890
The Picture shows a skeleton in an armchair leafing through an album of japanese prints.
James Ensor Skeleton Looking at Chinoiseries Painting ID:: 37501 new11/James Ensor-376233.jpg
Skeleton Looking at Chinoiseries mk126
ca.1910
The Picture shows a skeleton in an armchair leafing through an album of japanese prints.
James Ensor Skeleton i the studio Painting ID:: 37502 new11/James Ensor-883669.jpg
Skeleton i the studio mk1260
1900
Here,as in skeletons trying to warm themselves of 1889,we are in the artist-studio.this time,however,the space is not bare,but full of masks,curios,books,palettes,utensils,folders full of painting,and even a coffee grinder sitting on a perfectly ordinary chair.
James Ensor Masks Watching a Negro Minstrel Painting ID:: 37503 new11/James Ensor-973353.jpg
Masks Watching a Negro Minstrel mk126
ca.1878-79
This is an early work,which dates from Ensor-s Brussels period.it could easily be an academic teaching piece on the paintng of live Models.
James Ensor Old Woman with Masks Painting ID:: 37504 new11/James Ensor-286426.jpg
Old Woman with Masks mk126
1889
As he had already with Masks watching a negro minstrel.Ensor added the masked figures to this painting at a later time.
James Ensor Masks Confronting Death Or Masks Mocking Death Painting ID:: 37505 new11/James Ensor-869455.jpg
Masks Confronting Death Or Masks Mocking Death mk126
1888
The skeleton and it-s pendant the mask haunt Ensor-sbest-known pictures.
James Ensor The Great Judge Painting ID:: 37508 new11/James Ensor-456967.jpg
The Great Judge mk126
1898
The Judge is set in the center of the canvas.
Gathered around him are various bewildered-looking
James Ensor Death and the Masks Painting ID:: 37507 new11/James Ensor-854323.jpg
Death and the Masks mk126
1897
Under a livid sky in Which two Flying skeletons armed with scythes
James Ensor Pierrot and Skeleton Painting ID:: 37509 new11/James Ensor-654932.jpg
Pierrot and Skeleton mk126
1905
By the light of a paraffin lamp,Pierrot seems to be under attack by two skeletons.
James Ensor The Red Judge Painting ID:: 37510 new11/James Ensor-286649.jpg
The Red Judge mk126
1900
In this particularly cruel picture,we see a judge flanked by two skeletons wearing top hats.
James Ensor The Girl with Masks Painting ID:: 37511 new11/James Ensor-689428.jpg
The Girl with Masks mk126
1921
This picture shows a young girl open-mouthed,with her gaze fixed on bouquet of flowers she is holding in both hands.
James Ensor The Entry of Christ into Brussels Painting ID:: 37512 new11/James Ensor-572963.jpg
The Entry of Christ into Brussels mk126
1898
A man wearing a top hat in the near foreground holds a poster declaring Vive Anseele et jesus.
James Ensor Carnival in Flanders Painting ID:: 37513 new11/James Ensor-244288.jpg
Carnival in Flanders mk126
1925-29
James Ensor Singing Masks Painting ID:: 37514 new11/James Ensor-366255.jpg
Singing Masks mk126
1925-29
James Ensor The Grotesque Singers Painting ID:: 37515 new11/James Ensor-238977.jpg
The Grotesque Singers mk126
1891
James Ensor The Drum Major Painting ID:: 37516 new11/James Ensor-533425.jpg
The Drum Major mk126
1925-29
James Ensor Interior with Three Portraits Painting ID:: 37517 new11/James Ensor-462589.jpg
Belgian
1860-1949
Belgian painter, printmaker and draughtsman. No single label adequately describes the visionary work produced by Ensor between 1880 and 1900, his most productive period. His pictures from that time have both Symbolist and Realist aspects, and in spite of his dismissal of the Impressionists as superficial daubers he was profoundly concerned with the effects of light. His imagery and technical procedures anticipated the colouristic brilliance and violent impact of Fauvism and German Expressionism and the psychological fantasies of Surrealism. Ensor most memorable and influential work was almost exclusively produced before 1900, but he was largely unrecognized before the 1920s in his own country. His work was highly influential in Germany, however: Emil Nolde visited him in 1911, and was influenced by his use of masks; Paul Klee mentions him admiringly in his diaries; Erich Heckel came to see him in the middle of the war and painted his portrait (1930; Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Mus.); Alfred Kubin owned several of his prints, while Marc Chagall and George Grosz also adapted certain elements from Ensor. All the artists of the Cobra group saw him as a master. He influenced many Belgian artists including Leon Spilliaert, Rik Wouters, Constant Permeke, Frits van den Berghe, Paul Delvaux and Pierre Alechinsky.