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Also Known As Fernand-Edmond-Jean-Marie Khnopff
Born September 12, 1858 • Belgium
Died November 12, 1921 (aged 63) • Brussels • Belgium
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Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin
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Joris-Karl Huysmans, detail of an oil painting by Jean-Louis Forain.
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French author
Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon
French painter
Maurice Denis
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Moreau, Gustave: Orpheus
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The Poor Fisherman, oil on canvas by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1881; in the Louvre, Paris.
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René Magritte
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Champaigne, Philippe de: The Dream of Saint Joseph
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The Supreme Vice, India ink and watercolour by Félicien Rops.
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Théo Van Rysselberghe
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Constant Permeke
Belgian painter and sculptor
Paul Delvaux
Paul Delvaux
Belgian painter
Miner at the Vein, bronze sculpture by Constantin Meunier, c. 1892; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 48.26 × 44.45 × 33.97 cm.
Constantin Meunier
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Adam Frans van der Meulen
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Maurice Maeterlinck, c. 1890.
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