James Ensor

Belgian painter (1860–1949)

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Lived 1860–1949, aged 89
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  • Era
    1860–1949
    Aged 89
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Updated 2026-06-09

A Belgian painter who turned carnival masks and skeletons into high art, influencing both expressionism and surrealism while rarely leaving his coastal hometown of Ostend.

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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.

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