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James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for most of his life. He was associated with the artistic group Les XX.
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culture · Belgian painter (1860–1949) · painter · printmaker · graphic artist · architectural drafter · visual artist · artist · author · also James Ensor, James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor, Baron James Ensor, James Sidney Edouard Ensor, James, Baron Ensor, James Ensor (baron)
Born 13 April 1860 · Died 19 November 1949 · Q158840
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We are willing to worship a God only if God makes us safe. Thus you get the silly question, How does a good God let bad things happen to good people? Of course, it was a rabbi who raised that question, but Christians took it up as their own. Have you read the Psalms lately? We're seeing a much more complex God than that question gives credit for.
A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God
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“We are willing to worship a God only if God makes us safe. Thus you get the silly question, How does a good God let bad things happen to good people? Of course, it was a rabbi who raised that question, but Christians took it up as their own. Have you read the Psalms lately? We're seeing a much more complex God than that question gives credit for.”
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The Art Newspaper: A peek behind the many masks of James Ensor in new Brussels show
The Art Newspaper: James Ensor: series of anniversary shows to reveal ‘the man behind the mask’
Hyperallergic: Tripping Through James Ensor’s Macabre Painted World with Luc Tuymans
Artnet: Rare James Ensor Painting Sells for $7.84 Million, Breaking Two Records
Artnet: Newly Discovered James Ensor Painting Sells for $1.1 Million at Auction
KCRW: The Getty Welcomes the Scandalous Art of James Ensor
And then at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, October 2009 to February 2010
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Died 1949-11-19.
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Was named a Baron by King Albert, and was the subject of the Belgian composer Flor Alpaerts's James Ensor Suite; and in 1933 he was awarded the band of the Légion d'honneur
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“A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God”
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His painting The Lamp Boy (1880) was acquired by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, and he had his first solo exhibition in Brussels
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Ensor created two highly political etchings
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Alone, he produced forty-five etchings as well as his most ambitious painting, the immense Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889
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Born 1860-04-13.
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“But unto wrong what is His Name? Our God is a consuming flame To every wrong beneath the sun!”
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“It’s not my job to be God’s lawyer,...I’m his salesman. I do believe he’s the greatest thing that ever existed, and I encourage people to get to know him without trying to explain what he’s doing or why.”
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