James Ensor - An online museum

Welkom home! Works by James Ensor from the KBC collection.

Pascal Ennaert — Tue, 18 May 2021 14:48:16 +0000

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KBC Bank owns a rich art collection in which the oeuvre of James Ensor occupies a prominent place.

Call for applications Postdoctoral research fellowship

Pascal Ennaert — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:24:39 +0000

Deadline 31 March 2021

Refurbished James Ensor House opens

Pascal Ennaert — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 20:10:42 +0000

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Tuesday 14 July 2020 sees the official opening of the refurbished James Ensor House and brand-new interactive experience centre in Ostend.

Mathematician donates work by Ensor to the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp

Pascal Ennaert — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 14:53:01 +0000

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Henry Crapo, a Canadian mathematician, has donated The Temptation of Saint Anthony by James Ensor to the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp. He bought it in the early sixties in Boston.

In memoriam Dr. Lydia Schoonbaert, Chief Curator and Ensor expert

Pascal Ennaert — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 13:05:46 +0000

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Dr. Lydia M.A. Schoonbaert passed away on 5 February 2019. She was Chief Curator of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp from 1984 to 1995.

New publication on Ensor’s artistic and social ideas and the interpretation of his art by Herwig Todts

Pascal Ennaert — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 10:23:25 +0000

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This book by Herwig Todts explores James Ensor's artistic and social ideas and the interpretation of his art indepth through the analysis of his writings.

Marcel De Maeyer 1920-2018

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 11:48:41 +0000

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On October 7, 2018, Emeritus Professor Marcel De Maeyer (1920 Sint-Niklaas - 2018 Ghent) passed away. His value as an art historian, academic, pedagogue and artist is exceptional.

Dreams of mother-of-pearl

Pascal Ennaert — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:10:28 +0000

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The Ensor Collection of KMSKA in Ostend

2 new Online Publications

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 09:37:11 +0000

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Two new online publications reveal new insights concerning the oeuvre of James Ensor.

Deadline Summer Course extended

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 09:30:35 +0000

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The application deadline for the Summer Course for the Study of the Arts in Flanders (Belgian Fin de Siècle edition) was extended until January 7, 2018.

Summer Course Belgian Fin de Siècle

Matthias Depoorter — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 12:36:34 +0000

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Several Flemish research centres, universities and art museums collaboratively organise the fourth edition of the Summer Course for the Study of the Arts in Flanders in the summer of 2018.

NEMO’s 25th Annual Conference

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 13:01:47 +0000

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NEMO's 25th Annual Conference: ‘Open Heart Surgery - The Value of Museum Collections' (9-12 November 2017/ Ghent, Belgium)

New Online Publication: Ensor’s illustrations for Jean-François Marmontel’s La Neuvaine de Cythère

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 05 May 2017 09:47:41 +0000

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At the exhibition dedicated to paintings, prints and drawings by James Ensor out of collections from Belgium and The Netherlands in the Centraal Museum in Utrecht (1993), nine erotic representat

New Online Publication: The artist’s demons

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 09:57:22 +0000

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Ina Dinter is curator of the prints and drawings-section of the exhibition

New Online Publication: La Boutique de Grognelet, James Ensor as theatre-maker

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 13:05:34 +0000

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Patrick Florizoone and Willem Coppejans highlight in a new online publication James Ensor's talents as theatre-maker. The talents of James Ensor were not limited to drawings, sketches and pa

New Online Publication on an unknown Ensor

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 12:51:38 +0000

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In a new online publication Ensor specialist Xavier Tricot discusses the unknown painting Squelette arrêtant masques (Skeleton Arresting Masqueraders).

Exhibition 'Intrigue: James Ensor by Luc Tuymans'

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 09:07:49 +0000

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Curator Luc Tuymans brings Ensor to London for an exhibition in the Royal Academy of Arts. In Intrigue: James Ensor by Luc Tuymans, the contemporary Antwerp artist makes a sele

New Ensor for the MSK

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 09:57:49 +0000

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The collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent (MSK) is supplemented with an additional painting by James Ensor: Les Poissardes mélancoliques (The Melancholy Fishwives, 1892).

New Online Publication

Matthias Depoorter — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 08:09:48 +0000

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Patrick Florizoone and Willem Coppejans wrote the online publication James Ensor between avant-garde and tradition for the James Ensor Online Museum.

New Ensors for the MSK

Matthias Depoorter — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 11:39:08 +0000

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Exhibition Two Masters of Ostend

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 10:14:08 +0000

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In Two Masters of Ostend, Mu.ZEE, the Art Museum by the Sea, introduces a superb new collection featuring works by James Ensor and Léon Spilliaert (185

Programme & Registration Ensor Symposium

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 10:12:44 +0000

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As the Ensor Research Project's (Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp) goal is to better understand all aspects of James Ensor's creative processes, a symposium is being organised that will presen

KMSKA purchases a rare drawing by Ensor

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 08:34:44 +0000

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Exhibition 'Colour unleashed' in The Hague

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 09:44:34 +0000

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'Colour unleashed.

Call for papers: Ensor's creative process: technique, concept, image

Pascal Ennaert — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 09:50:12 +0000

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Symposium:
November 20, 2015
University of Antwerp & Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (Belgium)

Ina Dinter defends her PhD dissertation on James Ensor

Matthias Depoorter — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 09:07:06 +0000

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On 10 June Ina Dinter defends her PhD dissertation, ‘Claire, Rose, Blanche - James Ensors Bildstrategien in Liebesgärten, Nyphenbildern und dem Spätwerk' at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ing

The Printroom of the Groeninge Museum acquires the Van Hoorebeke collection

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 10:16:29 +0000

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In December 2014, the municipal council of Bruges approved the acquisition of the graphic collection of Bruges print dealer Guy van Hoorebeke.

Till-Holger Borchert and Hubert De Witte appointed as Co-Directors of Musea Brugge

Matthias Depoorter — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 07:55:07 +0000

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Hubert De Witte (*1955 in Sinaai), the former Adjunct-Director alongside Manfred Sellink, is the new Business Director of Musea Brugge.

Ensor in Chicago on loan from the KMSKA Antwerp and MSK Ghent

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:51:41 +0000

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The exhibition, named Temptation: The Demons of James Ensor, opens in the Art Institute of Chicago as of 23 November.

Online publication ‘The religious oeuvre of James Ensor’

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 13:54:29 +0000

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The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) launched in 2013 the Ensor Research Project.

Sellink new director KMSKA

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 09:55:03 +0000

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On 16 October, Minister of Culture Sven Gatz announced that Manfred Sellink will succeed Paul Huvenne as the new General Director and Head Curator of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA).

Online contributions KMSKA Ensor Research Project

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 10:21:22 +0000

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The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) launched the Ensor Research Project.

Exhibition 'The Scandalous Art of James Ensor'

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 07:55:23 +0000

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With 60 paintings and drawings from the collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, the J.

3 New online contributions Ensor Research Project

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 10:51:19 +0000

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The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) launched an Ensor Research Project.

Exhibition 'L'Autre Ensor'

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:47:34 +0000

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In the exhibition, L'autre Ensor (until 23 March), 52 lesser-known drawings of James Ensor are exhibited in the Grand Curtius museum in Liège.

New Online Publication

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:31:50 +0000

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Ensor expert, Xavier Tricot, has written a new online publication for the website James Ensor. An online museum.

New online contributions Ensor Research Project

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:48:46 +0000

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The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) launched an Ensor Research Project.

Exhibition 'The Surprised Masks: James Ensor. From the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp and Swiss collections'

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 09:47:16 +0000

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James Ensor (1860-1949) was a visionary artist whose whimsical, fantastical, ironic, and occasionally aggressive oeuvre strongly influenced the art of the twentieth century.

Willy Van den Bussche passed away

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 08:54:25 +0000

On 14 December, Willy Van den Bussche passed away at the age of 71. Van den Bussche died of complications from a heart attack in the U.S.

Ensor in false colour

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:07:50 +0000

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The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) launched an Ensor Research Project.

Ensor colours the 'Salon der Angst' in Kunsthalle Wien

Pascal Ennaert — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:14:45 +0000

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Angst is a universal theme.

Presentation of Herwig Todts thesis ‘Ensor, occasional Modernist’ online

Pascal Ennaert — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:07:47 +0000

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James Ensor in the Copenhagen Ordrupgaard museum

Pascal Ennaert — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 10:11:29 +0000

James Ensor. Master of the Mask

Au Coeur Volant: Ensor and Einstein Meet

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 13:50:32 +0000

On 2 August 1933, the restaurant Au Coeur Volant in De Haan served as the remarkable décor for a historic meeting between James Ensor and Albert Einstein.

James Ensor Painting and other works stolen from the Museum Van Buuren

Matthias Depoorter — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 07:49:31 +0000

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‘Bonjour Ostende’ in the Venetiaanse Gaanderijen

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:48:51 +0000

Some names of cities incite dreams. Some places receive an extraordinary status attached to them by their fame. Ostend is just such a place.

Exhibition 'Satire-Irony-Grotesque'

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:55:37 +0000

The exhibition ‘Satire-Irony-Grotesque.

Herwig Todts defends his PhD dissertation on James Ensor

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:35:04 +0000

On Wednesday 19 June Herwig Todts (Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp) will defend his PhD dissertation at the University of Ghent.

Images VKC on ARTstor

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:06:14 +0000

Since 24 May, Lukas-Art in Flanders is collaborating with ARTstor to share worldwide more than 4400 images from more than 30 important Flemish collections.

Private Ensor Collection Purchased

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:38:29 +0000

On 9 March the Ensor Collection of the late private collector Mark Van Dijck was purchased by an antiquarian bookshop in Bruges.

Mu.ZEE Acquires "Les Masques et la Mort" by James Ensor.

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:32:55 +0000

The Ostend museum Mu.ZEE under the guidance of Director-Conservator Phillip Van den Bossche has purchased James Ensor's work, Les Masques et la Mort.

Expo: Ensor’s messenger: August van Yper

Matthias Depoorter — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:51:18 +0000

From 1 December August van Yper will be our guest at the Ensor House (Ostend), where he will unveil his exceptional story.

New web publication Ensor

Matthias Depoorter — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:39:41 +0000

Ensor expert, Xavier Tricot, has written a new web publication for the website James Ensor: An online museum, an initiative of the Flemish Art Col

Geert Van der Snickt defends his PhD dissertation on James Ensor’s pigments

Matthias Depoorter — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:50:49 +0000

On Wednesday 27 June Geert Van der Snickt will defend his PhD dissertation at the University of Antwerp.

"Ensor in context" at 5 venues in Japan

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:26:47 +0000

The Ensor collection of KMSKA will reside in Japan from 14 April to 17 March 2013.

Robert Hoozee Deceased

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:39:36 +0000

It is with great sorrow that the Direction Committee, the Board of Directors and the general assembly of the Flemish Art Collection inform you of the death of Robert Hoozee (1949), the museum direc

Traveling Art Ensor

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 08:25:59 +0000

It often occurs that works of art, or entire museum collections, which are in a good state of condition, travel elsewhere to enhance a temporary exhibition.

KMSKA buys new works of Ensor

Matthias Depoorter — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:13:19 +0000

Is Ensor's artistic production dating after 1893 truly of a lesser value than earlier work? Quite a few experts appear to think so, but not everyone holds this opinion.

Ensor and de Bruycker in Tallinn

Matthias Depoorter — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:42:56 +0000

The KUMU Art Museum, a museum for modern art, opened its doors in 2006 in the Kardriorg Park in Tallinn (Estonia). The KUMU is now presenting the exhibition: Double Portrait.

Drawing by James Ensor missing

Pascal Ennaert — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:54:58 +0000

Since Friday, June 10, a drawing of the Belgian painter James Ensor is missing from the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague.

Spectacular purchase amount for Ensor

Pascal Ennaert — Mon, 30 May 2011 18:27:43 +0000

On 17 May, two works by James Ensor were sold at Sotheby's in Amsterdam at an auction with modern and contemporary artists. Both brought in significantly more than the appraised auction price.

Flemish Government Purchases Les bains à Ostende (The Baths of Ostend)

Pascal Ennaert — Mon, 30 May 2011 18:21:52 +0000

Ensor in The Hague

Matthias Depoorter — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:24:03 +0000

Alhough now that the Ensor Year is behind us, the Ostend painter remains prominently on the scene.

Challenges for the Conservation Teams: Ensor’s Yellow turns Brown …

Matthias Depoorter — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:18:04 +0000

On Monday, 14 February, the scientific publication ‘Analytical Science' released an article on the chemical colouration of paint on paintings.

International colloquium James Ensor

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:56:52 +0000

Thursday 24th February 2011

Organised by the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent and the Flemish Art Collection in collaboration with S.M.A.K. and FARO

Hareng Saur: Ensor and Contemporary Art

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It is generally acknowleged that James Ensor was one of the key figures and pioneers of Modern Art. During his lifetime, his residence in Ostend was a meeting place for artists and intellectuals.

Ensor Unmasked

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:36:51 +0000

'Prince of painters,‘ forerunner of Surrealism, yet more kindred to Brueghel and Goya: 2010 is the 150th anniversary of the birth of James Ensor.

The Seven Deadly Sins

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:23:43 +0000

As of 17 September, James Ensor is highlighted at the Ensor House with his The Seven Deadly Sins.

Ensor, Composer and Writer

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:39:04 +0000

Complementary to the Ensor exhibition in the ING Cultural Centre, the Centre for Fine Arts—BOZAR displays an other facet of the artist in the hallways round the Henry Le Boeuf concert hall with

Antwerp, Brown Marchionesses and Blonde Maiden

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:45:01 +0000

Although James Ensor is primarily linked to his birthplace of Ostend, he also had a fondness for B

Ensor Year Produces Two Ensor Films

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:17:59 +0000

For the inauguration of the Ensor Year 2010, not only were there various exhibitions organized and new publications, but also two documentaries were produced.

The Beauty of the Grotesque: James Ensor in Madrid

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:16:11 +0000

As an introduction to the 150th anniversary of James Ensor‘s birth and from the European chair position of Belgium in 2010, the Carlos de Amberes Foundation is exhibiting its entire collection of E

Djinn Saout Pays Tribute to Ensor

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:13:58 +0000

The Belgian, French-language rock band, Djinn Saout, composed a tribute to the oeuvre of James Ensor, baron of the masquerade.