And all the voluntary solitude the abandonment of others for the.
Khnopff i lock the door upon myself.
The title of the painting is a quotation from a christina rossetti poem.
I lock the door upon myself 1891.
I lock my door upon myself and bar them out.
Watts edward burne jones and their circle.
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 similar establishment of an age worn interior as trance inducing space in i lock the door upon myself although not noted in current literature was highlighted by emile verhaeren in an 1892 review of the work when it was first exhibited with les xx.
But who shall wall self from myself most loathed of all.
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.
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.
We re in munich at the neue pinakothek and we re looking at the work of a belgian artist fernand khnopff.
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.
I lock my door upon myself.
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.
Khnopff s title comes specifically from this stanza.