All Fernand Khnopff 's Paintings
The Painting Names Are Sorted From A to Z


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Choice ID Image  Paintings (From A to Z)       Details 
34930 The end of the day  The end of the day   mk98 1891 Pastel on paper 24.5x34.5cm
38832 The Garden  The Garden   mk141 1886 Oil on canvas 21x27cm
34998 The Garden in Famelettes  The Garden in Famelettes   mk98 c 1914 Oil on canvas 22.5x30.2
35004 The Offering  The Offering   mk98 1891 Pastel on paper 31.2x71.2
72037 The Sphinx, or, The Caresses  The Sphinx, or, The Caresses   1896(1896) Oil on canvas 50 X 150 cm cjr
35016 The Veil  The Veil   mk98 c 1887
34975 Under the trees  Under the trees   mk98 1894 Graphite coloured pencil and charcoal on paper 72x28.5
34974 Victoria Like Flames her Long Red Tresses Licked  Victoria Like Flames her Long Red Tresses Licked   mk98 1892 Pastel on paper 70.5x28.5
34990 View From the Bridge at Fosset  View From the Bridge at Fosset   mk98 c 1882-1883 Oil on cardboard 14.6x31.1
34966 White Black and Gold  White Black and Gold   mk98 1901 Pastel watercolour and gouache on paper
34977 Who Shall Deliver Me  Who Shall Deliver Me   mk98

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Fernand Khnopff
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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