Listening to Schumann
by KHNOPFF, Fernand, Oil on canvas, 102 x 117 cm
In 1883 Khnopff was a founder-member of Les XX, the most avant-garde and internationalist art group in Europe. He designed their logo and exhibited Listening to Schumann (1883), a painting characterized by a Symbolist concern for introspection and an impressionist style indebted to James Ensor’s Russian Music (1881).
The painting is signed and dated upper left: FERNAND KHNOPFF 1883.
Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 31 minutes):
Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B flat, Op. 38 (Spring Symphony)