17 Facts About James Ensor

James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for most of his life.

James Ensor was associated with the artistic group Les XX.

Ensor's father, James Frederic Ensor, born in Brussels to English parents, was a cultivated man who studied engineering in England and Germany.

James Ensor's travels were very few: three brief trips to France and two to the Netherlands in the 1880s, and a four-day trip to London in 1892.

In short, James Ensor is a dangerous person who has great changes.

James Ensor's paintings continued to be exhibited and he gradually won acceptance and acclaim.

James Ensor died there following a short illness, on 19 November 1949 at the age of 89.

James Ensor dressed skeletons up in his studio and arranged them in colorful, enigmatic tableaux on the canvas, and used masks as a theatrical aspect in his still lifes.

James Ensor turned to religious themes, often the torments of Christ.

James Ensor interpreted religious themes as a personal disgust for the inhumanity of the world.

James Ensor turned more and more to music in his later years, playing the harmonium and even composing a ballet-pantomime in one act, The Scale of Love, complete with an original libretto, sets, and costumes.

James Ensor is known to have stated in later years that he had followed the wrong path in life, feeling that he should have devoted himself to music.

James Ensor created 133 etchings and drypoints over the course of his career, with 86 of them made between 1886 and 1891 during the height of Ensor's most creative period.

James Ensor is considered to be an innovator in 19th-century art.

James Ensor's works are in many public collections, notably the Modern Art Museum of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, and Mu.

James Ensor has been paid homage by contemporary painters and artists in other media.

James Ensor is the subject of a song, "Meet James Ensor", recorded in 1994 by the alternative rock duo They Might Be Giants.