James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor
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James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor 🇧🇪

James Ensor (Known as "James Ensor")
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Born Apr 13, 1860 🇧🇪 Ostend, Belgium
Passed Away Nov 19, 1949 Ostend, Belgium
Lifespan 89 years old
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"My reason is the prisoner of the luminous colors of the sea and the grotesque masks of carnival."

Archival Overview

Pioneering Belgian avant-garde painter and printmaker whose grotesque carnivalesque masks, skeletons, and masterpiece 'Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889' founded Expressionism.

Biographical Record

James Ensor (1860–1949 CE) lived his entire life above his family's souvenir and carnival curiosity shop in the North Sea resort of Ostend.

Using luminous sea light, he painted venomous, satirical visions of bourgeois society disguised as grotesque carnival masks; rejected even by his peers in Les XX, he was later hailed as a father of modern Expressionism.

Key Life Milestones

1888

Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889

Painted his colossal 14-foot canvas depicting Jesus ignored amidst a deafening, grotesque political carnival crowd in Brussels.

1929

Created Baron by King Albert I

Ennobled as a Baron of Belgium, celebrated internationally as the prophet of 20th-century Expressionism and Surrealism.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Our Lady of the Dunes Cemetery
Mariakerke (Ostend), Belgium
GPS: 51.2056, 2.8767
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