Fin-de-Siècle Museum
Museum in Brussels, Belgium
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Waterlily bookcase by
Louis Majorelle
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Established | 6 December 2013 ( 2013-12-06 ) |
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Location | Brussels , Belgium |
Coordinates | 50°50′31″N 4°21′30″E / 50.84194°N 4.35833°E / 50.84194; 4.35833 |
Collections | Impressionism , Art Nouveau |
Website | Official website |
The Fin-de-Siècle Museum ( French : Musée Fin-de-Siècle , Dutch : Fin-de-Siècle Museum ; "Museum of the Turn of the Century") is a museum in central 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]
Collection
Artists represented in the museum's collection include 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 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
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Portrait de 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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La Nature , Alphonse Mucha , 1899–1900
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Three-armed dandelion lamp, Antonin Daum and Louis Majorelle , 1902
See also
References
Notes
- 1 2 "Musée Fin-de-Siècle Museum" . Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium . Retrieved 26 May 2016 .
- 1 2 Trend, Nick (6 December 2013). "Brussels: Inside the new Musée Fin-de-Siècle" . The Telegraph . Retrieved 26 May 2016 .
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Constituent museums of the
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
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