This display of paintings reveals how Belgian artists of the 1890s such as Fernand Khnopff and Theo van Rysselberghe were influenced in their treatment of mysticism by earlier artists such as Antoine Wiertz, and how they anticipated Freud’s interest in the uncanny. Find out more from the Alte Nationalgalerie’s website.
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The Love of Souls (1900), Jean Delville. Photo: Vincent Everarts; © Musée d’Ixelles – Brüssel
I Lock My Door Upon Myself (1891), Fernand Khnopff. © bpk/Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
The Flowers of Evil (1891), Eugène Laermans. Private collection, Geneva
Die Toteninsel (1883), Arnold Böcklin. Photo: © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie/Andres Kilger
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Richard Serra, man of steel (1938–2024)