Marthe and the Madman by Jean de Bosschère

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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. Between 19, he regularly visited Paris where he met writers with a passion for the occult.

Marthe and the Madman by Jean de Bosschère