Royal Art - James Ensor - Belgian painter

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James Ensor (April 13th. 1860 - November 19th. 1949) lived in Ostend and was a famous Belgian painter who had an important influence on expressionism and surrealism.


James Ensor - Source picture: Wikipedia

Family

His parents were James Frederic Ensor and Maria Catharina Haegheman. James Frederic Ensor was born in Brussels of English parents. His mother came from Ostend.

Study

 From 1877 till 1880, James Ensor attended the Académie Royale des Beaux Arts in Brussels. Later Ensor traveled to France, the Netherlands and he even made a four-day visit to London.

Work

 Initially, people found his works scandalous. However in 1895 one of his paintings was bought by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels. Nowadays his works are spread over a lot of museums in the world.

Belgium: Brussels  Antwerp and Ostend.
United States of America: Museum of Modern Art in New York
France: Musée d'Orsay in Paris
Germany: The Wallraf Richartz Museum in Cologne.

James Ensor - Works - Book about Avant Garde

Royal Link

 In 1929, King Albert granted the title Baron to James Ensor.

This summer there was an exhibition in the Royal Palace of Brussels about Queen Elisabeth, the wife of King Albert of Belgium, and her passion for art.

One of the objects that was shown was a written card of James Ensor to Queen Elisabeth.

Card of James Ensor to Queen Elisabeth - Royal Palace in Brussels
Nowadays

In Ostend, Belgium, people still can visit the Ensor House, this is the house where he lived and where his family had a little shop. See this link. 
Location: 8400 Ostend, Belgium

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