[permalink] [id link]
Khnopff accepted this commission but destroyed the work later because the famous soprano Rose Caron was offended by the imaginary portrait of Leonora d ' Este that Khnopff had designed to adorn the cover and in which Caron believed to recognise her own face.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
Khnopff and work
Between 1877 and 1880, Khnopff made several trips to Paris where he discovered the work of Delacroix, Ingres, Moreau and Stevens.
In the The Folding Star, a novel by Alan Hollinghurst, Edgard Orst, a symbolist painter whose work and life are crucial for the story, is modelled on Khnopff and James Ensor.
The work has influenced a number of later artists such as Félicien Rops, Auguste Rodin, Louis Aucoc, Fernand Khnopff, and Pablo Picasso.
Khnopff and later
Among the most notable members were James Ensor, Willy Finch, Fernand Khnopff, Félicien Rops, and later Auguste Rodin and Paul Signac.
Khnopff and famous
This production was directed by the famous Max Reinhardt, and the sets evoking the gloomy streets of the mysterious city of Bruges where Khnopff had spent his early childhood, were much appreciated by the Berlin public and critics.
Among his famous students were Fernand Khnopff, Kenyon Cox, Félix Vallotton, Georges Rochegrosse, the Scottish-born landscape painter William Hart, and Edmund C. Tarbell, who became an American Impressionist painter.
Khnopff and Rose
On several occasions ( 1892, 1893, 1894 and 1897 ) Khnopff was invited as guest of honour on the exhibitions of the Parisian " Salon de la Rose + Croix " organised by Péladan.
Khnopff and was
Fernand Edmond Jean Marie Khnopff ( 12 September 1858 in Grembergen near Dendermonde, Belgium – 12 November 1921 in Brussels ) was a Belgian symbolist painter.
Fernand Khnopff was born to a wealthy family that was part of the high bourgeoisie for generations.
The abandoned city, a Symbolism | symbolist drawing by Fernand Khnopff, was inspired by the landscape of Woensdagmarkt square in Bruges.
Khnopff and by
* The Caress ( 1896 ), by the Belgian symbolist painter Fernand Khnopff ( 1858 – 1921 ), is a representation of the myth of Oedipus and the Sphinx and portrays a creature with a woman's head and a cheetah's body ( often misidentified as a leopard's ).
File: Fernand Khnopff 002. jpg | The Caress by Fernand Khnopff, 1887
It harbours the graves of, among others, Fernand Khnopff and Maria Malibran and also features an original cast of Thinker by Auguste Rodin.
Khnopff exhibited regularly at the annual " Salon " organised by Les XX.
The numbers accompanied by the abbreviation: " dCOZ " refer to the catalogue of the works of Khnopff by Catherine de Croës and Gisèle Ollinger-Zinque ( 1987 ).
The titles between quotation marks are the original titles given by Khnopff himself.
* Robert L. Delevoy, Catherine de Croës, Gisèle Ollinger-Zinque, Fernand Khnopff, ( with a catalogue of works by C. de Croës and G. Ollinger-Zinque and essays by R. L. Delevoy ), Brussels, Lebeer-Hossmann, 1987.
Yet his next portraits are in rather subdued colours, using different black or purple gradations contrasting with light colours: Jeanne and Marguerite Schlobach ( 1884 ), Octave Maus ( 1885 ), Camille Van Mons ( 1886 ), Marguerite Van Mons ( 1886 ) ( to be compared with Portrait of Gabrielle Braun ( 1886 ) by Fernand Khnopff ).
Khnopff and d
* September 12-Fernand Khnopff, Symbolist painter ( d. 1921 )
Khnopff and had
After Khnopff had been engaged to design the costumes and the sets for the World premiere of Ernest Chausson's opera Le Roi Arthus at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels in 1903, he collaborated on more than a dozen opera productions given at " La Monnaie " in the following decade.
Here Khnopff came in touch again with prominent artists from the Vienna Secession ; the architect of the Palais Stoclet Josef Hoffmann, and Gustav Klimt who had designed a decorative mosaic for its dining room.
Khnopff and cover
Péladan asked Khnopff to design the cover for his new book " Le Vice suprême ".
Khnopff and which
Until the outbreak of World War I in 1914 Khnopff would be responsible for the rubric " Studio-Talks-Brussels " in which he reported about the artistic evolutions in Belgium and continental Europe.
Khnopff and .
As an artist of international reputation, he can be cited as an influence on European figures such as Gustav Klimt and Fernand Khnopff.
With his younger brother Georges Khnopff – also a passionate amateur of contemporary music and poetry – he started to frequent Jeune Belgique (" Young Belgium "), a group of young writers including Max Waller, Georges Rodenbach, Iwan Gilkin and Emile Verhaeren.
Khnopff left University due to a lack of interest in his law studies and began to frequent the studio of Xavier Mellery, who made him familiar with the art of painting.
In 1889, Khnopff laid his first contacts with England where he would stay end exhibit regularly in the future.
In March 1898 Khnopff presented a selection of 21 works on the first exhibition of the Vienna Secession.
Khnopff is buried in Laeken Cemetery.
-Portrait of Edmond Khnopff, father of the painter, 1881.
-Portrait of Marguerite Khnopff, sister of the painter, 1887.
accepted and commission
However, in 1778 Gluck turned down an offer to compose the inaugural opera for La Scala in Milan ; upon the suggestion of Joseph II and with the approval of Gluck, Salieri was offered the commission, which he gratefully accepted.
He had initially accepted a commission to write a book on compilers which would later become the multi-volume The Art of Computer Programming.
Vincent dismissed Calixte as commander and sent him abroad, where he eventually accepted a commission in the Dominican military as a reward for his efforts while on Trujillo's payroll.
Badoglio's successor in the field, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, accepted the commission from Mussolini on the condition that he was allowed to crush Libyan resistance unencumbered by the restraints of either Italian or international law.
As in the past, Pei accepted the commission in part because of the unique challenge it presented.
* August 24 – A special commission in Brazil concludes that there is sufficient evidence to begin impeachment proceedings against President of Brazil Fernando Collor de Mello, finding he had accepted millions of dollars worth of illegal payments from business interests.
Mendes accepted, and later recalled that after taxes and his agent's commission, he only earned $ 38, 000.
He met with Confederate President Jefferson Davis at the executive mansion on June 22, 1861, where he was informed that he had been appointed a brigadier general with date of rank on June 17, a commission he accepted on June 25.
At the time, Lee was under a threat of being tried as a deserter from the British Army, because he hadn't resigned his British commission as Lieutenant-Colonel until several days after he accepted an American commission.
In 1938, Breton accepted a cultural commission from the French government to travel to Mexico.
Although Venezuela was unhappy with the decision, a commission surveyed a new border in accordance with the award, and both sides accepted the boundary in 1905.
In March 2008 Atwood announced that she had accepted her first chamber opera commission.
In 1885, he accepted the offer of a commission in the British Royal Engineers and trained in Chatham, England.
She reported later, “ I guess I never met a more misanthropic, grumpy individual in my life .” Hopper grumbled throughout the project and never again accepted a commission.
On June 14, 1928, the summer before the start of his senior year, LeMay accepted a commission as a second lieutenant in the Field Artillery Reserve of the United States Army.
In September 1928, LeMay was approached by the Ohio National Guard and asked to accept a state commission, also as a second lieutenant, which LeMay accepted.
" He accepted the commission.
Impressed by the low bid for the contract to build it by Fox and Henderson, the commission accepted the scheme.
He had accepted the commission reluctantly because of a personal enmity with another of Caesar's allies.
Arum later apologized for the remark which commission chairman Luther Mack accepted.
The commission was accepted on 18 February 1544, but preparations for the voyage were frustrated by unpaid debts, Portuguese spies and internal wranglings.
The Legislature accepted the recommendation of the commission, and added the Mayor-Council-Administrator plan to the Faulkner Act as the fourth optional form of municipal government in 1981.
William Blackstone later wrote that " if judgment of death be given by a judge not authorized by lawful commission, and execution is done accordingly, the judge is guilty of murder ; and upon this argument Sir Matthew Hale himself, though he accepted the place of a judge of the Common Pleas under Cromwell's government, yet declined to sit on the crown side at the assizes, and try prisoners, having very strong objections to the legality of the usurper's commission ".
0.631 seconds.