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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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Fernand Khnopff Orpheus oil painting artist


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Orpheus
Painting ID::  34923
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mk98 1913 Graphite,Coloured pencil and Pastel on paper 67.3x91.5

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Fernand Khnopff Head of a Woman oil painting artist


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Painting ID::  34924
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mk98 c.1899 Coloured pencil on paper 29.5x29.5

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Fernand Khnopff Secret oil painting artist


Fernand Khnopff Secret oil painting artist

Secret
Painting ID::  34925
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mk98 c.1902 Pastel and charcoal on paper

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Fernand Khnopff IN fOSSET.a Path oil painting artist


Fernand Khnopff IN fOSSET.a Path oil painting artist

IN fOSSET.a Path
Painting ID::  34928
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mk98 c.1890-1895 Oil on canvas 33.3x25.5

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Fernand Khnopff In Fosset.Grass oil painting artist


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In Fosset.Grass
Painting ID::  34929
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mk98 1893 Oil on panel 20.4x30

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