![]() ![]() In 1909, he began a lifelong friendship with the Antwerp Symbolist poet Max Elskamp (of whom in 1914 he published a critical study), and in 1911 the French writer Andre Suares. Then in 1912, he was accused of Satanism in response to his first novel, Dolorine et les Ombres (1911). ![]() 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. In 1909 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 1905-1914, he wrote regular articles for the magazine L'Occident and L'Art Flamand et Hollandaise. On Mahe married Jeanne Fanny Alexandra Jones, from whom he was 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. Bosschère was born in Uccle, the son of Charles de Bosschere and Nancy Marie Hélène Van der Stock. ![]()
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