Phantastisches Stillleben
James Ensor
um 1917
Medium
Öl auf Holz
Dimensions
16 x 21,5 cm
Classification
Gemälde
Department
Belvedere Collection
Museum
Belvedere
Credit
Belvedere, Vienna
Accession Number
3914
About the Artist
James Ensor
James Ensor (1860–1949) was a Belgian painter and printmaker whose visionary, often grotesque imagery anticipated Expressionism, Surrealism, and much of the avant-garde art of the twentieth century. Born in Ostend to an English father and Flemish mother who ran a curio shop selling seashells, masks, and carnival souvenirs — objects that would pervade his art — Ensor studied at the Brussels Academy...