Eric Min: James Ensor, een biografie
Tarzan, 2023
€29,90
The Ostend painter James Ensor (1860-1949) is one of the artists who bridged the gap between impressionism and the twentieth century. He is best known as a painter of masks and skeletons. His work was outspokenly socially critical. The bourgeoisie was targeted mercilessly. This biography aims to provide a portrait of the painter and the climate in which he lived: the closed Ostend bourgeois environment and the Brussels art scene, where he had a love-hate relationship with the progressive artist group Les Vingt. Ensor was a genius, knew it about himself, but did not always feel understood. He liked to introduce himself as Christ. But the tide turned: Ensor gained recognition as an artist, he even became a baron. Then it was necessary to work on his own myth-making. He consciously manipulated information about his person. The great merit of this biography is that it was the first to emphasize this after thorough research of the existing source material. A beautiful portrait of an extremely complex artist. IN DUTCH!
ISBN: 9789022340271
