Léon Spilliaert

(Belgian, 1881–1946)

Léon Spilliaert was a Belgian painter best known for his mysterious, Symbolist works. Depicting nocturnal landscapes, windswept beach scenes, and alien portraits, Spilliaert’s oeuvre is united in its consistent fascination with the interior emotional landscape of people. Throughout his practice, the artist emphasized aspects of and stylized his observations of reality so that patterns and moods reoccurred within his varied subject matter. Much like the French painter and printmaker Odilon Redon, Spilliaert often used pastels to create the sense of a dream-like haze, lending his work a distinctive, softened aesthetic. Born on July 28, 1881 in Ostend, Belgium, he was often ill and so spent much of his childhood drawing landscapes around his home. At age 21, he went to Brussels to work as an illustrator for Edmond Deman, a publisher who specialized in Symbolist writers like Edgar Allan Poe, which allowed him to pursue his own personal brand of expressive painting. Today, Spilliaert’s works are held in the collections of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, among others. Spilliaert died on November 23, 1946 in Brussels, Belgium.

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La mort du roi Léopold II, 1910

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La mort du roi Léopold II, 1910

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Serres chaudes, 1918

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Serres chaudes, 1918

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L'homme à la barque, 1934

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L'homme à la barque, 1934

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Marine, 1933

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Landscape with weeping willows, 1946

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Landscape with weeping willows, 1946

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At the edge of the forest, imminent Storm, 1935

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At the edge of the forest, imminent Storm, 1935

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The boat at the pier in the creek, 1930

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The boat at the pier in the creek, 1930

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The pond in Maria-Hendrika park, Ostend, 1929

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The pond in Maria-Hendrika park, Ostend, 1929

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Wheat field with farm, 1933

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Wheat field with farm, 1933

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Farms along the canal, 1930

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Farms along the canal, 1930

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At the side of the road, 1920

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At the side of the road, 1920

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Wooded hills in winter, Vresse sur Semois, 1942

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Wooded hills in winter, Vresse sur Semois, 1942

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Portrait of Madame Van Geluwe, 1926

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Portrait of Madame Van Geluwe, 1926

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L'homme émacié, 1902

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L'homme émacié, 1902

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The pink facade, 1926

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The pink facade, 1926

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L'apparition, 1917–1918

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L'apparition, 1917–1918

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La drève (The Lane), 1917–1918

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La drève (The Lane), 1917–1918

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La femme au prisme. Poèmes par Franz Hellens, 1920

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La femme au prisme. Poèmes par Franz Hellens, 1920

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Le hangar du dirigeable (The Airship's hangar), 1910

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Le hangar du dirigeable (The Airship's hangar), 1910

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Marine met witte zeilen en staketsel, 1925

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Marine met witte zeilen en staketsel, 1925

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Fillette dormant devant la mer, 1921

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Fillette dormant devant la mer, 1921

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Le Bain, 1917

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Le Bain, 1917

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Silhouette d'arbres en hiver, Hautes Fagnes, 1940

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Silhouette d'arbres en hiver, Hautes Fagnes, 1940

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Rabbit, 1917, 1917

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Rabbit, 1917, 1917

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