For VisitFlanders, Andrew Daines, director UK and Ireland, said: “Ostend was home to the Anglo-Belgian surrealist artist James Ensor, and a new state-of-the-art visitor experience incorporating ...

On a December afternoon, when DW visited Ostend, the hometown of James Ensor, it did not exactly present itself as a "lovely colorful flower", as the Belgian painter once called it. The town is ...

Floating men in bowler hats don't dot the sky in Brussels, but the city is full of references to surrealist painters and poets such as Rene Magritte and Paul Delvaux, who lived and worked here.