# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-ensor
# Generated: 2026-09-08T19:49:05.143Z

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name: "James Ensor"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor was born on 13 April 1860 and spent most of his life in Ostend, Belgium. He worked as a painter and printmaker, becoming associated with Les XX, an avant-garde artistic group. His work proved formative for two major movements that followed: expressionism and surrealism. He lived to 88, dying on 19 November 1949, having spent nearly nine decades in the same seaside town where his strange, masked visions first took shape.