The work of De Bosschere was marked by a persistent spiritual seeking in his life he developed a fascination with the occult, the spiritual, the obscure and the sexual. They also stayed regularly Solaia near Siena in Italy, where De Bosschere worked on his many novels and poetry collections. In the winter of 1925–26, they lived in Brussels, then from March 1926, in Paris, where he met Antonin Artaud. At the end of 1922, he left London with Élisabeth d'Ennetières, with whom he would stay for the rest of his life. In 1920, he moved in with his beloved Vera Anne Hamilton but she died in January 1922. He also illustrated erotic classics by Aristophanes, Ovid, Strato and Apuleius. Among the books he illustrated were the poems of Oscar Wilde and Charles Baudelaire. He met several London publishers for whom he illustrated numerous books in the '20s and '30s. Lawrence, and Imagist poets such as Ezra Pound, T. In 1915, after the outbreak of World War I, he fled from Belgium and went to London where he met writers such as John Gould Fletcher, Aldous Huxley and D. He was accused of Satanism in 1912, in response to his first novel, Dolorine et les Ombres (1911). Around 1912, he underwent a moral and emotional crisis and distanced himself from Symbolism. That same year, he began a lifelong friendship with the Antwerp Symbolist poet Max Elskamp (of whom in 1914, he published a critical study), and in 1911, of the French writer Andre Suares. He was also influenced by the Roman Catholic spiritual works of French poet and dramatist Paul Claudel, whom he saw lecture in 1909. The style of these illustrations, as well as his later work, was a version of Art Nouveau heavily influenced by the drawings of Aubrey Beardsley. Two years later he published his first collection of poetry, Béâle-Gryne, which he illustrated himself. From 1907, he also wrote several monographs, especially on Flemish art. From 1905 to 1914, he wrote regular articles for the magazine L'Occident and L'Art Flamand et Hollandais. On 25 March 1905, he married Jeanne Fanny Alexandra Jones they separated officially in 1923. In 1894, the family moved to Antwerp, where Jean attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts from 1896 to 1900.īetween 19, he regularly visited Paris where he met writers with a passion for the occult.
In 1893, Jean attended the Ecole d'Horticulture in Ghent. In 1884, the family moved to Lier, where Jean spent a tormented childhood full of affection for his disfigured sister Marthe, described in Marthe et l'Enragé. Jean de Bosschère was a Belgian writer and painter.īosschère was born in Uccle, the son of Charles de Bosschere and Nancy Marie Hélène Van der Stock.
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