James Ensor The Artist-s Studio Painting ID:: 37518 new11/James Ensor-673659.jpg
The Artist-s Studio mk126
1930
James Ensor Point of the Compass Painting ID:: 37520 new11/James Ensor-884942.jpg
Point of the Compass mk126
North 1932
James Ensor Point of the Compass Painting ID:: 37521 new11/James Ensor-537685.jpg
Point of the Compass mk126
South
1932
James Ensor Point of the Compass Painting ID:: 37522 new11/James Ensor-929586.jpg
Point of the Compass mk126
East 1932
James Ensor My Dead mother Painting ID:: 37523 new11/James Ensor-829829.jpg
My Dead mother mk126
1915
Ensor was already fifty-five years old in 1915 when his mother did.
James Ensor My Dead Aunt Painting ID:: 37524 new11/James Ensor-243623.jpg
My Dead Aunt mk126
1916
One year after the death of Ensor-s Mother came that of her sister.
James Ensor The Droll Smokers Painting ID:: 37525 new11/James Ensor-755575.jpg
The Droll Smokers mk126
1920
Almost everyone,Even the skulls,appears to be smoking in the painting.
James Ensor The Pisser Painting ID:: 37526 new11/James Ensor-265773.jpg
The Pisser mk126
1887
This Etching is also known under the title.
James Ensor Strange Insects Painting ID:: 37527 new11/James Ensor-823322.jpg
Strange Insects mk126
1888
Here,Ensor Depicts himself as a beetle,and Mariette Rousseau,His Friend-s Wife whom he much admired,as a dragonfly
James Ensor Plague Above,Plague below,Plague all around Painting ID:: 37528 new11/James Ensor-386992.jpg
Plague Above,Plague below,Plague all around mk126
1904
This print,like the earlier 1888 drawing that it copied in reverse,is base on a photograph of a trip Ensor took with family and friends to Bruges.
James Ensor At the Conservatory Painting ID:: 37529 new11/James Ensor-389492.jpg
At the Conservatory mk126
1902
As he later wrote to his friend
the poet and art critic pol de Mont,frome the very start of His career.
James Ensor The Fight Painting ID:: 37530 new11/James Ensor-382769.jpg
The Fight mk126
ca.1910
It seems that Ensor was already fascinated by the motif of fighting men a number of years before he produced this work
James Ensor The Assassination Painting ID:: 37531 new11/James Ensor-864843.jpg
The Assassination mk126
1890
The Macabre side of the Victorian imagination was fueled by naturalist novels and sensationalist tabloids
James Ensor The Wise judges Painting ID:: 37532 new11/James Ensor-455366.jpg
The Wise judges mk126
1891
Social satire works best when there is just enough of a connection with reality to underscore is sardonic difference.
James Ensor The Bad Doctors Painting ID:: 37533 new11/James Ensor-437373.jpg
The Bad Doctors mk126
1892
Beginng in the 1890s,Ensor produced a number of Satirical paintings that mocked Belgium-s professional middld class-judges.
James Ensor The Dangerous Cooks Painting ID:: 37534 new11/James Ensor-692562.jpg
The Dangerous Cooks mk126
1896
Ensor made two studies for this painting,a pastel drawing and a gouache on cardboard.
James Ensor Mr.and Mrs.Rousseau Speaking with Sophie Yoteko Painting ID:: 37535 new11/James Ensor-624533.jpg
Mr.and Mrs.Rousseau Speaking with Sophie Yoteko mk126
1892
This small painting is a truly puzzing work.
James Ensor The Gendarmes Painting ID:: 37536 new11/James Ensor-633265.jpg
The Gendarmes mk126
1892
The Gendarmes,painted in 1892,provides an intriguing example of how Ensor deployed his own engaged and expressive individaualism as a vehicle for social critique.
James Ensor Doctrinaire Nourishment Painting ID:: 37537 new11/James Ensor-949479.jpg
James Ensor La Gamme d-amour Painting ID:: 37538 new11/James Ensor-289442.jpg
La Gamme d-amour mk126
1921
James Ensor Decor Painting ID:: 37539 new11/James Ensor-299847.jpg
Decor mk126
1929
James Ensor The Song of the Wine or Thirsty Masks Painting ID:: 37540 new11/James Ensor-599798.jpg
The Song of the Wine or Thirsty Masks mk126
1935
James Ensor Theater of Masks Painting ID:: 37541 new11/James Ensor-744498.jpg
Theater of Masks mk126
1908
James Ensor The Puzzled Masks Painting ID:: 37542 new11/James Ensor-956247.jpg
The Puzzled Masks mk126
1930
This work is immediately preceded by a number of graphic varia--tions on the theme.
James Ensor The Tribulations of St.Anthony Painting ID:: 37543 new11/James Ensor-945997.jpg
The Tribulations of St.Anthony mk126
1909
The theme of temptation as a representation of the artist-s explo-ration of his own powers of imagination is a subject that continued to fascinate Ensor throughout his career.
James Ensor The Tormens of St.Anthony Painting ID:: 37544 new11/James Ensor-962938.jpg
The Tormens of St.Anthony mk126
1932-33
The motif of illness is evoked by the monk-s habit.
James Ensor The Fantastic Ballet Painting ID:: 37546 new11/James Ensor-655592.jpg
The Fantastic Ballet mk126
1889
This color etching predates the painting of the same name by almost thirty years.
James Ensor Flowered Figures Painting ID:: 37547 new11/James Ensor-583243.jpg
Flowered Figures mk126
1936
James Ensor The Garden of love Painting ID:: 37548 new11/James Ensor-874934.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.