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Fernand Khnopff
The Abandoned Town
1904
Musees Royaux des Beaux Arts, Brussels Charcoal drawing, black pencil and pastel
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Fernand Khnopff
Marie Monnom
1887
1' 7 1/2'' x 1' 7 3/4''(49.5 x 50 cm)
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Fernand Khnopff
Art,or The Sphinx.or The Caresses (mk19)
1896
Oil on canvas 50 x 150 cm
Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts,Brussels
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Fernand Khnopff
Memories (mk19)
1889
Pastel 127 x 200 cm
Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts,Brussels
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Fernand Khnopff
The Abandoned Town (mk19)
1904
Charcoal drawing,Black pencil and pastel on paper backed with canvas,76 x 69 cm
Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts,Brussels
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Fernand Khnopff
I Lock my Door upon Myself (mk20)
1891
Oil on canvas,72 x 140 cm
Neue Pinakothek,Munich
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Fernand Khnopff
Self-Portrait
mk52
1918
Pastel on paper
64x41cm
Uffizi,Florence
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Fernand Khnopff
Self-Portrait
mk68
Oil on canvas
Florence,Uffizi
1899
Belgium
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Fernand Khnopff
I Lock my Door upon Myself
mk87
1891
Oil on canvas
72x140cm
Munich,Bayerische Staatsgemalde Sammlungen,Neue Pinakothek
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Fernand Khnopff
Listingto Music by Schumann
mk98
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Fernand Khnopff
I Lock My Door Upon Myself
mk98
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Fernand Khnopff
Of Animality
mk98
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Fernand Khnopff
Portrait of Mrs Edmond Khnopff
mk98
1882
Oil on canvas
36.3x28
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Fernand Khnopff
Portrait of Marguerite Khnopff
mk98
1887
Oil on canvas
mounted on panel
96x74.5cm
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Fernand Khnopff
On Silence
mk98
1890
Pastel on paper
85x415
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Fernand Khnopff
Orpheus
mk98
1913
Graphite,Coloured pencil and Pastel on paper
67.3x91.5
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Fernand Khnopff
Head of a Woman
mk98
c.1899
Coloured pencil on paper
29.5x29.5
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Fernand Khnopff
Secret
mk98
c.1902
Pastel and charcoal on paper
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Fernand Khnopff
IN fOSSET.a Path
mk98
c.1890-1895
Oil on canvas
33.3x25.5
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Fernand Khnopff
In Fosset.Grass
mk98
1893
Oil on panel
20.4x30
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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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