Fin-de-Siècle Museum
The museum, inaugurated on 6 December 2013, partly replaces the Royal Museum of Modern Art (French: Musée royal d'Art moderne; Dutch: Koninklijk Museum voor Moderne Kunst), closed on 1 February 2011, and is partially housed in its former halls. Located at 1, place Royale/Koningsplein, it is served by the tram stop Royale/Koning (on lines 92 and 93).
Collection
Artists represented in the museum's collection include Emile Claus, Eugène Laermans, Constantin Meunier, James Ensor, Henri Evenepoel, Fernand Khnopff, and Léon Spilliaert. The museum also celebrates the richness of the period in literature, architecture, photography, opera, music, and poetry, featuring works by Maurice Maeterlinck, Emile Verhaeren, Octave Maus, Victor Horta, Henry Van de Velde, Maurice Kufferath, and Guillaume Lekeu.
Important international artists of the period in the collection include Alfred Sisley, Vincent van Gogh, Auguste Rodin, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, and Edward Burne-Jones. The Gillon-Crowet gallery houses a collection of Art Nouveau furniture and decorative arts.
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Self-portrait, Constantin Meunier, 1885
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Portrait of Marguerite Khnopff, Fernand Khnopff, 1887
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Les masques singuliers, James Ensor, 1892
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Divan Japonais, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893
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Nature, Alphonse Mucha, 1899–1900
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Three-armed dandelion lamp, Antonin Daum and Louis Majorelle, 1902
See also
- List of museums in Brussels
- Art Nouveau in Brussels
- History of Brussels
- Culture of Belgium
- Belgium in the long nineteenth century
References
Citations
- ^ "Musée Fin-de-Siècle Museum". Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
- ^ Trend, Nick (6 December 2013). "Brussels: Inside the new Musée Fin-de-Siècle". The Telegraph. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
- ^ "Ligne 92 vers SCHAERBEEK GARE - stib.be". www.stib-mivb.be. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
- ^ "Ligne 93 vers STADE - stib.be". www.stib-mivb.be. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
Bibliography
- Michèle Van Kalck (red.), De Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België. Twee eeuwen geschiedenis, 2 dln. (in Dutch), Tielt: Lannoo, 2003
External links
- Media related to Fin de Siècle Museum at Wikimedia Commons
- Musée Fin-de-Siècle Museum official website