Ensor [French]

by Ulrike Becks-Malorny

An Expressionist before the term was coined, James Ensor (1860-1949) was the classic insider-outsider enigma. He knew all the right art-world figures but loathed most of them. His style lurched from the Gothic fantastical to the Christian visionary. He was a cosmopolitan trailblazer of modernism, but lived reclusively in an attic room in the resort town of Ostend.

For all his elusiveness, Ensor influenced generations of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: French
• ISBN: 3836560550
• ISBN13: 9783836560559
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Taschen
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 10.3"