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KHNOPFF, FERNAND EDMOND See also:JEAN See also:MARIE (1858– ) , Belgian painter and etcher, was See also:born at the See also:chateau de Grembergen (See also:Termonde), on the 12th of See also:September 1858, and studied under X. Mellery. He See also:developed a very See also:original See also:talent, his See also:work being characterized by See also:great delicacy of See also:colour, See also:tone and See also:harmony, as subtle in spiritual and intellectual as in its material qualities. " A Crisis " (1881) was followed by " Listening to See also:Schumann," " St See also:Anthony " and " The See also:Queen of Sheba " (1883), and then came one of his best known See also:works, " The Small See also:Sphinx" (1884). His" Memories " (1889) and" See also:White, See also:Black and See also:Gold " (1901) are in the See also:Brussels Museum; " Portrait of Mlle R." (1889) in the See also:Venice Museum; "A Stream at Fosset"(1897) at See also:Budapest Museum; " The Empress (1899) in the collection of the See also:emperor of See also:Austria, and " A Musician " in that of the See also:king of the Belgians. " I See also:lock my See also:Door upon Myself " (1891), which was exhibited at the New See also:Gallery, See also:London, in 1902 and there attracted much See also:attention, was acquired by the Pinakothek at See also:Munich. Other works are " Silence " (189o), " The See also:Idea of See also:Justice " (1905) and " Isolde " (1906), together with a poly-chrome bust " Sibyl " (1894) and an See also:ivory See also:mask (1897). In quiet intensity of feeling Khnopff was influenced by See also:Rossetti, and in simplicity of See also:line by Burne-See also:Jones, but the See also:poetry and the delicately mystic and enigmatic See also:note of his work are entirely individual. He did See also:good work also as an etcher and drypointist. See L. See also:Dumont-Wilden, Fernand Khnopff (Brussels, 1907).

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