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ZELFPORTRET
By Léon Spilliaert
#art #portraits #selfportrait #expressionism #symbolism
‘I wish to go beyond the fire that burns me.’
Petrarch, Il Canzoniere (Song Book), sonnet ( 1330-1374)
Léon Spilliaert, 1927
VENISE (VENICE)
By Léon Spilliaert
#art #paintings #watercolorpainting #expressionism #symbolism #landscape
PORTRET VAN MEVROUW STORCK-HERTOGHE
By Léon Spilliaert
#art #paintings #portraits #gouachepainting #expressionism #symbolism
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Léon Spilliaert (Belgian, 1881-1946), Silhouette d'arbres en hiver, Hautes Fagnes [Silhouette of trees in winter, Hautes Fagnes], c.1940. Watercolour and pen and India ink on paper, 50 x 63 cm. https://t.co/zy1upIpeiO
‘How strange it is to be standing leaning against the current of time.’
W.G. Sebald, Schwindel (Vertigo), 1990
Léon Spilliaert, Vertigo, 1908
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Arbuste sur fond jaune, Hautes Fagnes, 1940, watercolour and pen and India ink on paper, 50 x 63 cm
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LIEFDE
(India ink, brush, black chalk, pencil, watercolor)
By Léon Spilliaert
#art #expressionism #symbolism
DE LOODS VAN HET LUCHTSCHIP
By Léon Spilliaert
#art #drawings #prints #expressionism #symbolism
JEU DE NEIGE DEVANT LE MOULIN
By Léon Spilliaert
#art #prints #lithograph #expressionism #symbolism
GROENE BOMEN
By Léon Spilliaert
#art #paintings #expressionism #symbolism #watercolorpainting #gouachepainting
De Baders
By Léon Spilliaert
#art #prints #lithograph #expressionism #symbolism
"Vertigo" (1908), painted by Belgian Symbolist Léon Spilliaert at 27.
A prolific doodler and autodidact, he was predominantly a self-taught artist. Sickly and reclusive, he especially admired the work of Edgar Allan Poe.