Ensor, JamesBelgien, 1860–1949Boulevard van Iseghem te Oostende
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Unbekannt
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Niederlande
Der Besitzer ist bekannt; ob das Werk derzeit ausgestellt ist, nicht.
- Quelle
- Das Museum
Angaben
- Inventarnummer
- RP-P-1910-3057
Was es zeigt
Im Katalog
Quellen
- Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
- Bild: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam — public domain
Derweil im Leben von Ensor, James
Das ganze Leben1860–1949 · Wirkungsort
Ostend
1880s
Brief trips to France and the Netherlands
Ensor travelled very little: in the 1880s, just three brief trips to France and two to the Netherlands.
1883–1893 · Mitgliedschaft
Les XX
1887
Death of his father
His father, James Frederic Ensor, died — a scion of a wealthy English family who never found his footing in Belgium, mocked by small-town Ostend as a drunkard and failure, yet always supportive of his son's passion for art. Left the only man in the family, James felt a special responsibility for his younger sister Mariette (Mitche).
1888–1892
Turning-point years: the Passion of Christ
Ensor turned to religious themes, most often the torments of Christ, expressing through them his disgust at the inhumanity of the world; an atheist, he identified with Christ as a victim of mockery. At the height of his creative powers, between 1886 and 1891, he made 86 of his 133 etchings.
