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| Italy | 10 |
| Japan | 5 |
| USA | 4 |
| Belgium | 4 |
| Most exhibitions held at: |
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La Biennale di Venezia, Italy |
6 |
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Musée d´Orsay, France |
2 |
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Bank Austria Kunstforum, Austria |
2 |
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Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Foundation, Italy |
2 |
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Bunkamura, Japan |
2 |
Biography: 
12.9.1858 Born in Dendermonde-Grembergen, VOV (BE)
painter, sculptor, graphical artist, theorist
Born of a family of magistrates, Khnopff grew up in Bruges. He enrolled at the Law School in Brussels which he soon abandoned for the Académie des Beaux-Arts. There he studied under Xavier Mellery who taught him to consider painting as an enquiry into the meaning hidden in the "soul of things". In 1877, on a visit to Paris, he discovered the work of Delacroix, Gustave Moreau, and the Pre-Raphaelites (particularly Rossetti and Burne-Jones). The influence of these painters was to be of vital importance.
On his return to Belgium he was one of the founders, in 1883, of The Twenty ("Groupe des XX") and was much admired by both painters and poets. Emile Verhaeren wrote enthusiastically about him in La Jeune Belgique and at first the rest of the press joined in his praises, though they tended to prefer his child portraits and landscapes.
In 1892 he exhibited in Paris at the first Salon de la Rose+Croix, encouraged by his new friend, Joséphin Péladan. However, this friendship brought him trouble with The Twenty, some members having little regard for the Rose+Croix. He was a friend of the Belgian poets Georges Rodenbach and Grégoire Le Roy, some of whose books he illustrated. From this Symbolist poetry he took certain themes: silence, solitude, secretiveness and deserted towns. Already during his lifetime he was almost a cult figure, creating a personality for himself as a dandy much sought after in Society circles. He was given the Order of Leopold in recognition of his services to painting but despite this he was an exceptionally private artist. In about 1900 he had a house built to his own plans; it was like one of the structures in his pictures, a house out of a dream with false windows.
12.11.1921 Died in Brussel, BRU (BE)
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Public exhibitions 32
Solo shows 2
2004
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| Fernand Khnopff - McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA |
1990
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| Fernand Khnopff - Bunkamura, Tokyo |
Group shows 30
2009
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| A Museum of Belgian Visionary Art - Khnopff to Delvaux and Magritte From the Collection of Himeji City Museum of Art - Bunkamura, Tokyo |
2008
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| Sphinxx - Stuart Shave/Modern Art , London (England) |
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| THE FLOWERS OF EVIL STILL BLOOM - Cueto Project, New York City, NY |
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| Het Spel van de Waanzin - Museum Dr. Guislain, Gent |
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| Against Nature: The hybrid forms of modern sculpture - Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (England) |
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| Les Archives de l´Imagination - BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels |
2007
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| Der Kuss der Sphinx. Symbolismus in Belgien - Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna |
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| Der Symbolismus und die Kunst der Gegenwart - Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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| Il Simbolismo - Da Moreau a Gauguin a Klimt - Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome |
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| Chefs-d`oevre des Musees royauk de Beaux-Arts de Belgique - NMAO National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka |
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| La photographie au Musée d'Orsay - 20 ans d'acquisitions - 1986-2006 - Musée d´Orsay, Paris |
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| Fondation Beyeler: EROS in der Kunst der Moderne - Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna |
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| Il Simbolismo. Da Moreau a Gauguin a Klimt - Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara (FE) |
2006
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| EROS in der Kunst der Moderne - Foundation Beyeler, Riehen |
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| Ensor and the avantgardes by the sea - Museum Voor Moderne Kunst (PMMK), Oostende |
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| Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Exhibition - NMWA The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
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| The Perfume of Sadness - Symbolist Art from the Kirk Long Collection - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
2005
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| 1905-2005 : Du Palais des Beaux-arts au MAMAC - MAMAC Musée d´Art Moderne et Contemporain, Liège |
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| Dessins de Georges Seurat et des artistes néo-impressionnistes - Musée d´Orsay, Paris |
2004
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| A century of belgian painting - Frissiras Museum, Athens |
2002
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| From Puvis de Chavannes to Matisse and Picasso - Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice |
2000
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| Cosmos - From Goya to De Chirico from Friedrich to Kiefer - Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice |
1999
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| Degas to Picasso - Painters, Sculptors and the Camera - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
1995
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| 46th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
1985
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| Gustave Moreau et le Symbolisme - Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu City |
1907
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| 7. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia 1907 - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
1903
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| 5. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia 1903 - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
1901
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| 4. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia 1901 - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
1899
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| 3. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia 1899 - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
1897
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| 2. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia 1897 - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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United Kingdom
| | Richard Nagy, London (England)
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Public collections 10
Austria
Belgium
| | Dexia Art Gallery, Brussels
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| | Musée d'Ixelles - Museum van Elsene, Brussels
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| | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
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| | Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, Gent
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| | MAMAC Musée d´Art Moderne et Contemporain, Liège
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France
Hungary
| | Museum of Fine Arts - Budapest, Budapest
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Japan
| | Himeji City Museum of Art, Himeji
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