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Fernand Khnopff

1858–1921 · Belgian

Born
1858 · Dendermonde
Died
1921 · Brussels

12 works in the Collect24 Registry

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Fernand Khnopff was a Belgian symbolist painter and a founding member of Les XX. His paintings often explored themes of isolation, desire, and the dual image of woman, frequently featuring his sister Marguerite.

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Fernand Edmond Jean Marie Khnopff (12 September 1858 – 12 November 1921) was a Belgian symbolist painter and one of the founding members of the avant-garde group Les XX in 1883. His paintings often depict isolation, desire, and the dual image of woman as femme fatale and angelic ideal, a recurring theme in symbolist art. His sister Marguerite was a frequent subject, appearing in numerous portraits throughout his career. Khnopff had close ties to British Pre-Raphaelitism, befriending Edward Burne-Jones and other British artists, and from 1895 was Brussels correspondent for the art journal The Studio. His work, particularly Caress of the Sphinx (1896), influenced the Vienna Secession and Gustav Klimt after Khnopff exhibited 21 works at the Secession's first exhibition in 1898. Khnopff also designed theater sets and opera costumes, working with director Max Reinhardt and on productions at Brussels' Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie. From 1900, he designed a home and studio in Brussels around his motto "On a que soi" (One has but oneself); the house, inspired by the Vienna Secession, with a golden circle inscribed on the white mosaic floor of the studio, was his "Temple of the self" until his death in 1921.

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Selected registered works by Fernand Khnopff

Selected from 12 works by Fernand Khnopff in the Collect24 Registry.

Fernand Khnopff, Portrait of Madame Jules Ricard, née Augustine Bulteau

Fernand Khnopff

Portrait of Madame Jules Ricard, née Augustine Bulteau, c. 1893

black chalk on tan-colored vellum

40.5 × 32.4 cm

Cleveland Museum of Art

C24-213193

Fernand Khnopff, Jeanne Kéfer

Fernand Khnopff

Jeanne Kéfer, 1885

Oil on canvas

80 × 80 cm

J. Paul Getty Museum

C24-135908

Fernand Khnopff, [Woman with a Tennis Racquet, Study for "Memories"]

Fernand Khnopff

[Woman with a Tennis Racquet, Study for "Memories"], about 1889

Gelatin silver print

16.6 × 11.7 cm

J. Paul Getty Museum

C24-589649

Fernand Khnopff, The Offering

Fernand Khnopff

The Offering, 1891

Pastel, graphite, and chalk on paper

34.9 × 74.9 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-488715

Fernand Khnopff, An Offering

Fernand Khnopff

An Offering, 1900

Drypoint on simili-Japan; second state

32 × 22.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-293581

Fernand Khnopff, Edmond Khnopff, the Painter's Father

Fernand Khnopff

Edmond Khnopff, the Painter's Father, 20th century

oil on canvas

36 × 28 cm

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

C24-144630

Fernand Khnopff, Hortensia

Fernand Khnopff

Hortensia, 1884

Oil on canvas

47.8 × 59.7 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-104868

Fernand Khnopff, The Veil

Fernand Khnopff

The Veil, c. 1887

Charcoal and graphite with stumping on ivory wove paper, laid down on wood pulp board

40 × 21 cm

Art Institute of Chicago

C24-202722

Fernand Khnopff, Bells (Une coiffure de grelots)

Fernand Khnopff

Bells (Une coiffure de grelots), 1905

Drypoint with touches of colored crayon

25.1 × 18.7 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-435611

Fernand Khnopff, The Curtain

Fernand Khnopff

The Curtain, 1904

Drypoint

28.3 × 19.8 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-233337

Fernand Khnopff, fernand khnopff, A violinist, 1898

Fernand Khnopff

fernand khnopff, A violinist, 1898, 1898

Pastel on paper mounted on canvas

73 × 60 cm

Gallery Sofie Van de Velde

C24-142517

Metadata onlyFernand Khnopff, Zelfportret

Fernand Khnopff

Zelfportret

160 × 145 cm

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

C24-145427

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