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James Ensor
James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor (13 April 1860 – 19 November 1949) was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for almost his entire life. He was associated with the artistic group Les XX.
==Biography==
Ensor's father, James Frederic Ensor, born in Brussels of English parents,〔Farmer 1976, p. 7.〕 was a cultivated man who studied engineering in England and Germany. Ensor's mother, Maria Catherina Haegheman, was Belgian. Ensor himself lacked interest in academic study and left school at the age of fifteen to begin his artistic training with two local painters. From 1877 to 1880, he attended the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, where one of his fellow students was Fernand Khnopff. Ensor first exhibited his work in 1881. From 1880 until 1917, he had his studio in the attic of his parents' house. His travels were very few: three brief trips to France and two to the Netherlands in the 1880s,〔Ensor et al. 2005, p. 21〕 and a four-day trip to London in 1892.〔Becks-Malorny 2000, p. 94〕
During the late 19th century much of his work was rejected as scandalous, particularly his painting ''Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889'' (1888–89), but his paintings continued to be exhibited, and he gradually won acceptance and acclaim. In 1895 his painting ''The Lamp Boy'' (1880) was acquired by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, and he had his first solo exhibition in Brussels.〔Becks-Malorny 2000, p. 95〕 By 1920 he was the subject of major exhibitions; in 1929 he was named a Baron by King Albert, and was the subject of the Belgian composer Flor Alpaerts's ''James Ensor Suite''; and in 1933 he was awarded the band of the Légion d'honneur. Even in the first decade of the 20th century, however, his production of new works was diminishing, and he increasingly concentrated on music—although he had no musical training, he was a gifted improviser on the harmonium, and spent much time performing for visitors.〔Becks-Malorny 2000, p. 91〕
Against the advice of friends, he remained in Ostend during World War II despite the risk of bombardment. In his old age he was an honored figure among Belgians, and his daily walk made him a familiar sight in Ostend. He died there after a short illness, on 19 November 1949.
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