Fin-de-Siècle Museum
 Waterlily bookcase by Louis Majorelle, in the Gillon-Crowet collection | |
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| Established | 6 December 2013 |
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| Location | Place Royale / Koningsplein 1, 1000 City of Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium |
| Coordinates | 50°50′31″N 4°21′30″E / 50.84194°N 4.35833°E |
| Collections | Impressionism, Art Nouveau |
| Public transit access |
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| Website | Official website |
The Fin-de-Siècle Museum (French: Musée Fin-de-Siècle, pronounced [myze fɛ̃ də sjɛkl]; Dutch: Fin-de-Siècle Museum; "Museum of the Turn of the Century") is a museum in the Royal Quarter of Brussels, Belgium. It is dedicated to the full spectrum of the arts of the period between 1884, when the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts ("Free Society of Fine Arts") was founded Brussels, and 1914, the year of the outbreak of World War I. It is one of the constituent museums of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.[1] The museum opened on 6 December 2013.[2] Located at 1, place Royale/Koningsplein, it is served by the tram stop Royale/Koning (on lines 92 and 93).[3][4]
Collection
[edit]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.[1][2]
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Self-portrait, Constantin Meunier, 1885 -
Portrait of Marguerite Khnopff, Fernand Khnopff, 1887 -
Les masques singuliers, James Ensor, 1892 -
Divan Japonais, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893 -
Nature, Alphonse Mucha, 1899–1900 -
Three-armed dandelion lamp, Antonin Daum and Louis Majorelle, 1902
See also
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- List of museums in Brussels
- Art Nouveau in Brussels
- History of Brussels
- Culture of Belgium
- Belgium in the long nineteenth century
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ a b "Musée Fin-de-Siècle Museum". Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
- ^ a b 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
[edit]- Michèle Van Kalck (red.), De Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België. Twee eeuwen geschiedenis, 2 dln. (in Dutch), Tielt: Lannoo, 2003
External links
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Media related to Fin de Siècle Museum at Wikimedia Commons- Musée Fin-de-Siècle Museum official website
Constituent museums of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium | ||
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