Private Ensor Collection Purchased
On 9 March the Ensor Collection of the late private collector Mark Van Dijck was purchased by an antiquarian bookshop in Bruges.read more
View ArticleImages VKC on ARTstor
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.read more
View ArticleHerwig Todts defends his PhD dissertation on James Ensor
On Wednesday 19 June Herwig Todts (Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp) will defend his PhD dissertation at the University of Ghent.read more
View Article‘Bonjour Ostende’ in the Venetiaanse Gaanderijen
Some names of cities incite dreams. Some places receive an extraordinary status attached to them by their fame. Ostend is just such a place.read more
View ArticleJames Ensor Painting and other works stolen from the Museum Van Buuren
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View ArticleAu Coeur Volant: Ensor and Einstein Meet
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.read more
View ArticleJames Ensor in the Copenhagen Ordrupgaard museum
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View ArticlePresentation of Herwig Todts thesis ‘Ensor, occasional Modernist’ online
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View ArticleEnsor colours the 'Salon der Angst' in Kunsthalle Wien
Foto met crop: biljartspelende_geraamten.jpegAngst is a universal theme.read more
View ArticleEnsor in false colour
Foto met crop: erp_bloemenengroenten_falsecoulourbeeld.jpg_1698348044.jpgThe Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) launched an Ensor Research Project.read more
View ArticleWilly Van den Bussche passed away
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.read more
View ArticleExhibition 'The Surprised Masks: James Ensor. From the Royal Museum of Fine...
Foto met crop: 1856--the-intrigue-1890.jpgJames Ensor (1860-1949) was a visionary artist whose whimsical, fantastical, ironic, and occasionally aggressive oeuvre strongly influenced the art of the...
View ArticleNew online contributions Ensor Research Project
Foto met crop: erp_vernis_img002.jpg_1787273342.jpgThe Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) launched an Ensor Research Project.read more
View ArticleNew Online Publication
Foto met crop: 197805_3125365.jpgEnsor expert, Xavier Tricot, has written a new online publication for the website James Ensor. An online museum.read more
View ArticleExhibition 'L'Autre Ensor'
Foto met crop: image.jpgIn the exhibition, L'autre Ensor (until 23 March), 52 lesser-known drawings of James Ensor are exhibited in the Grand Curtius museum in Liège.read more
View Article3 New online contributions Ensor Research Project
Foto met crop: achterzijde.jpg_889001506.jpgThe Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) launched an Ensor Research Project.read more
View ArticleExhibition 'The Scandalous Art of James Ensor'
Foto met crop: 1856_representation_4595_original.jpgWith 60 paintings and drawings from the collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, the J.read more
View ArticleOnline contributions KMSKA Ensor Research Project
Foto met crop: img_4939.jpg_44463038.jpgThe Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) launched the Ensor Research Project.read more
View ArticleSellink new director KMSKA
Foto met crop: sellink_manfred.jpgOn 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...
View ArticleOnline publication ‘The religious oeuvre of James Ensor’
Foto met crop: 3469_13.jpgThe Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) launched in 2013 the Ensor Research Project.read more
View ArticleEnsor in Chicago on loan from the KMSKA Antwerp and MSK Ghent
Foto met crop: vogel-superjumbo.jpgThe exhibition, named Temptation: The Demons of James Ensor, opens in the Art Institute of Chicago as of 23 November.read more
View ArticleTill-Holger Borchert and Hubert De Witte appointed as Co-Directors of Musea...
Foto met crop: 10845964_1017662841584530_9052804043075437600_n.jpgHubert De Witte (*1955 in Sinaai), the former Adjunct-Director alongside Manfred Sellink, is the new Business Director of Musea...
View ArticleThe Printroom of the Groeninge Museum acquires the Van Hoorebeke collection
Foto met crop: 16031493696_94eab22c52_o.jpgIn December 2014, the municipal council of Bruges approved the acquisition of the graphic collection of Bruges print dealer Guy van Hoorebeke.read more
View ArticleIna Dinter defends her PhD dissertation on James Ensor
Foto met crop: 46858_ca_object_representations_media_90_large_5.jpgOn 10 June Ina Dinter defends her PhD dissertation, ‘Claire, Rose, Blanche - James Ensors Bildstrategien in Liebesgärten,...
View ArticleCall for papers: Ensor's creative process: technique, concept, image
Foto met crop: onderzoek_mt_gvds.jpgSymposium:November 20, 2015University of Antwerp & Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (Belgium) read more
View ArticleExhibition 'Colour unleashed' in The Hague
Foto met crop: wousre.jpg'Colour unleashed.read more
View ArticleProgramme & Registration Ensor Symposium
Foto met crop: poster.jpgAs 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...
View ArticleExhibition Two Masters of Ostend
Foto met crop: 10222_365_310_fsimage_0_zelfportretten_1.pngIn Two Masters of Ostend, Mu.ZEE, the Art Museum by the Sea, introduces a superb new collection featuring works by James Ensor and Léon...
View ArticleNew Online Publication
Foto met crop: confrontation.jpgPatrick Florizoone and Willem Coppejans wrote the online publication James Ensor between avant-garde and traditionfor the James Ensor Online Museum.read more
View ArticleNew Ensor for the MSK
Foto met crop: james-ensor-les-poissardes-melancoliques-3-5m-6.97m-usd.jpgThe collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent (MSK) is supplemented with an additional painting by James Ensor: Les...
View ArticleExhibition 'Intrigue: James Ensor by Luc Tuymans'
Foto met crop: wouse.jpgCurator 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...
View ArticleNew Online Publication on an unknown Ensor
Foto met crop: ensor_squelettes_arretant_masques_sothebys_paris.jpgIn a new online publication Ensor specialist Xavier Tricot discusses the unknown painting Squelette arrêtant masques (Skeleton...
View ArticleNew Online Publication: La Boutique de Grognelet, James Ensor as theatre-maker
Foto met crop: grognelet.jpgPatrick 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...
View ArticleNew Online Publication: The artist’s demons
Foto met crop: 1998-b-92_representation_145_medium.jpgIna Dinter is curator of the prints and drawings-section of the exhibition read more
View ArticleNew Online Publication: Ensor’s illustrations for Jean-François Marmontel’s...
Foto met crop: 919a0359sabam.jpgAt 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...
View ArticleNEMO’s 25th Annual Conference
Foto met crop: csm_ohs_headersm_6635381168.pngNEMO's 25th Annual Conference: ‘Open Heart Surgery - The Value of Museum Collections' (9-12 November 2017/ Ghent, Belgium)read more
View ArticleSummer Course Belgian Fin de Siècle
Foto met crop: 2000-f_kopie.jpgSeveral 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...
View ArticleDeadline Summer Course extended
Foto met crop: logo_summercourse2018-rgb-ms_word.jpgThe application deadline for the Summer Course for the Study of the Arts in Flanders (Belgian Fin de Siècle edition) was extended until January 7,...
View Article2 new Online Publications
Foto met crop: 030-anoniem-ensor_schilderend_in_atelier.jpgTwo new online publications reveal new insights concerning the oeuvre of James Ensor.read more
View ArticleDreams of mother-of-pearl
Foto met crop: dedakenvanoostende.jpgThe Ensor Collection of KMSKA in Ostendread more
View ArticleMarcel De Maeyer 1920-2018
Foto met crop: demaeyer.pngOn 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...
View ArticleNew publication on Ensor’s artistic and social ideas and the interpretation...
Foto met crop: coverensortodts.jpgThis 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.read more
View ArticleIn memoriam Dr. Lydia Schoonbaert, Chief Curator and Ensor expert
Foto met crop: lydiaschoonbaert.jpgDr. 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.read more
View ArticleMathematician donates work by Ensor to the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp
Foto met crop: james-ensor-bekoring-van-sint-antonius-kmska.jpgHenry Crapo, a Canadian mathematician, has donated The Temptation of Saint Anthony by James Ensor to the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in...
View ArticleRefurbished James Ensor House opens
Foto met crop: ensorhuis_dsc_0306.jpgTuesday 14 July 2020 sees the official opening of the refurbished James Ensor House and brand-new interactive experience centre in Ostend.read more
View ArticleWelkom home! Works by James Ensor from the KBC collection.
Foto met crop: kbccollectie.jpegKBC Bank owns a rich art collection in which the oeuvre of James Ensor occupies a prominent place.read more
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