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Fernand Khnopff
Portrait of Count Roger van der Straeten-Ponthoz
mk98
1895
Oil on canvas
80x49
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Fernand Khnopff
Portrait of Henry de Woelmont
mk98
1885
Oil on canvas
26.4x29
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Fernand Khnopff
Portrait of the Children of Louis Neve
mk98
1893
Oil on panel
49.5x40
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Fernand Khnopff
Portrait of Maria van Rijckevorsel-Dommer van Poldersveldt
mk98
1888
Oil on panel
47x36
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Fernand Khnopff
Portrait of Augustinus van Rijckevorsel
mk98
1888
Oil on panel
47x36
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Fernand Khnopff
Portrait of Marie Monnom
mk98
1887
Oil on canvas
50x50
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Fernand Khnopff
Mary von Stuck in a Red Armchair
mk98
1916
Oil on canvas
107x93.5
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Fernand Khnopff
Portrait of Madame de Bauer
mk98
1893
Oil on panel
40x50
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Fernand Khnopff
Portrait of Charles Maus
mk98
1885
Oil on canvas
36.5x28.5
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Fernand Khnopff
Portrait of Achille Lerminiaux
mk98
1885
Pastel on paper
16x16
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Fernand Khnopff
Portrait of a Man
mk98
c.1885
Oil on panel
25x185
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Fernand Khnopff
Nude Study
mk98
c.1910
Pastel on paper
28.6x19
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Fernand Khnopff
Nude Study
mk98
1910
Graphite and Pastel on paper
18x18
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Fernand Khnopff
Nude Study
mk98
c.1910
Coloured pencil on paper
20x14.6
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Fernand Khnopff
A Blue Wing
mk98
1894
Oil on canvas
88.5x28.5
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Fernand Khnopff
White Black and Gold
mk98
1901
Pastel
watercolour and gouache on paper
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Fernand Khnopff
A Dreamer Nevermore
mk98
c.1900
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Fernand Khnopff
The Dreamer II
mk98
c 1900
Graphite and pastel on paper
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Fernand Khnopff
Solitude
mk98
c 1890-1891
Pastel and wash on paper
mounted on canvas
150x43
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Fernand Khnopff
Acrasia The Faerie Queen
mk98
1897
Oil on canvas
150.8x45
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1858-1921 Belgian Fernand Khnopff Gallery Fernand Khnopff was born to a wealthy family that was part of the high bourgeoisie for generations. Khnopff's ancestors had lived in Flanders since the early 17th-century but were of Austrian and Portuguese descent. Most male members of his family had been lawyers or judges, and young Fernand was destined for a juridical career. In his early childhood (1859-1864) he lived in Bruges where his father was appointed Substitut Du Procureur Du Roi. His childhood memories of the medieval city of Bruges would play a significant role in his later work. In 1864 the family moved to Brussels. To please his parents he went to law school at the Free University of Brussels (now divided into the Universite Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) when he was 18 years old. During this period he developed a passion for literature, discovering the works of Baudelaire, Flaubert, Leconte de Lisle and other mostly French authors. With his younger brother Georges Khnopff - also a passionate amateur of contemporary music and poetry - he started to frequent Jeune Belgique ("Young Belgium"), a group of young writers including Max Waller, Georges Rodenbach, Iwan Gilkin and Emile Verhaeren. Khnopff left University due to a lack of interest in his law studies and began to frequent the studio of Xavier Mellery, who made him familiar with the art of painting. On the 25th of October 1876 he enrolled for the Cours De Dessin Apres Nature ("course of drawing after nature") at the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts en Bruxelles. At the Academie, his most famous fellow student was James Ensor, whom he disliked from the start. Between 1877 and 1880 Khnopff made several trips to Paris where he discovered the work of Delacroix, Ingres, Moreau and Stevens. At the Paris World Fair of 1878 he became acquainted with the oeuvre of Millais and Burne-Jones. During his last year at the Acad??mie in 1878-1879 he neglected his classes in Brussels and lived for a while in Passy, were he visited the Cours Libres of Jules Joseph Lefebvre at the Acad??mie Julian.
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