The City Hall in Audenarde (L'hotel de ville d'Audenarde)
James Ensor
1888
Medium
etching and drypoint
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1980.45.488
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
James Ensor · 1860–1949
James Ensor (1860–1949) was a Belgian painter and printmaker whose visionary, often grotesque imagery anticipated Expressionism, Surrealism, and much of the avant-garde art of the twentieth century. Born in Ostend to an English father and Flemish mother who ran a curio shop selling seashells, masks, and carnival souvenirs — objects that would pervade his art — Ensor studied at the Brussels Academy...