Khnopff I Lock The Door Upon Myself

We re in munich at the neue pinakothek and we re looking at the work of a belgian artist fernand khnopff.

Khnopff i lock the door upon myself. In the 1890 s khnopff regularly visited britain and established friendships with g f. Aside from the curvilinear form of the woman locked behind a table of some sort or is it an altar or a tomb the painting is dominated by circles squares and rectangles and everything including the woman herself is painted. I lock the door upon myself fernand khnopff. The title of the painting is a quotation from a christina rossetti poem.

I lock my door upon myself and bar them out. Fernand khnopff was not a pre raphaelite painter but i wanted to share his 1891 painting i lock my door upon myself which draws inspiration from christina rossetti s poem who shall deliver me. Inalienable weight of care. And all the voluntary solitude the abandonment of others for the.

I lock the door upon myself 1891. Watts edward burne jones and their circle. Created in 1891 i lock the door upon myself by fernand khnopff was a symbolic portrait that paid homage to his predecessors the pre raphaelites particularly christina rossetti the title of khnopff s painting was taken from rossetti s poem who shall deliver me in which she states. But who shall wall self from myself most loathed of all.

The title of the painting is i lock my door upon myself from a poem by christina rossetti called who shall deliver me. Khnopff s title comes specifically from this stanza. Background detail fernand khnopff i lock the door upon myself 1891 oil on canvas 72 7 x 141 cm neue pinakothek munich in the foreground of the painting are the three distinct sets of withering orange irises which punctuate the three part composition.