The Broel Museum (Broelmuseum) was an

art museum An art museum or art gallery is a building or space for the display of art, usually from the museum's own Collection (artwork), collection. It might be in public or private ownership and may be accessible to all or have restrictions in place. A ...

, focusing on classical and applied arts of the 18th - 19th century. It was located on the

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Kortrijk Kortrijk ( , ; vls, Kortryk or ''Kortrik''; french: Courtrai ; la, Cortoriacum), sometimes known in English as Courtrai or Courtray ( ), is a Belgian City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Regio ...

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. The building was a converted 18th-century neoclassical mansion, located at 6 Broelkaai. The

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was signed here in 1820. Since the end of 2014, the museum has closed its doors due to a lack of visitors. Under the name of 'Broelkaai 6', the location is being turned into a platform for visual arts, and is scheduled to reopen in 2018. It was the intention to merge the collection of the closed Broel Museum with that of the museum Kortrijk 1302 which is dedicated to the history of the

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Exhibits

The main focus of the museum was works of artists from the Kortrijk area, or who are currently living in Kortijk, including;

Roelant Savery Roelant Savery (or ''Roeland(t) Maertensz Saverij'', or ''de Savery'', or many variants; 1576 – buried 25 February 1639) was a Flanders-born Dutch Golden Age painter. Life Savery was born in Kortrijk. Like so many other artists, he belonge ...

Jacob Savery Jacob Savery or Jacob Savery the ElderName variations: Jacob Maertensz. Saverij and Jacques Savery (1566 – buried 23 April 1603) was a Flemish painter, etcher and draughtsman. He was trained in Antwerp and later moved to the Dutch Republic af ...

Karel van Mander Karel van Mander (I) or Carel van Mander I (May 1548 – 2 September 1606) was a Flemish painter, poet, art historian and art theoretician, who established himself in the Dutch Republic in the latter part of his life. He is mainly remembe ...

, Kerstiaen De Keuninck, Louis-Pierre Verwee,

Évariste Carpentier Évariste Carpentier (1845 – 1922) was a Belgian painter of genre scenes and animated landscapes. Over the years, his painting evolved from academic art to impressionism. Alongside Emile Claus, he is one of the earliest representatives of ...

, Louis Robbe, Edward Woutermaertens, Vincent De Vos with a prominence of art from the 16th and 19th centuries.

Gallery of works

Image:Triptych of Virgin Mary with Elisabeth of Hungary.jpg, ''

Triptych A triptych ( ; from the Greek language, Greek adjective ''τρίπτυχον'' "''triptukhon''" ("three-fold"), from ''tri'', i.e., "three" and ''ptysso'', i.e., "to fold" or ''ptyx'', i.e., "fold") is a work of art (usually a panel painting) t ...

of Virgin Mary with

Elisabeth of Hungary Elizabeth of Hungary (german: Heilige Elisabeth von Thüringen, hu, Árpád-házi Szent Erzsébet, sk, Svätá Alžbeta Uhorská; 7 July 1207 – 17 November 1231), also known as Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia, or Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia, ...

'' (1470) Image:Jacob Savery (I) - Hagar and Ishmael depart.jpg, ''Hagar and Ishmael'' by

(1585) Image:Adriaen van Utrecht - Fowl and vegetables.jpg, ''Fowl and vegetables'' by

Adriaen van Utrecht Adriaen van Utrecht (Antwerp, 12 January 1599 – 1652) was a Flemish painter known mainly for his sumptuous banquet still lifes, game and fruit still lifes, fruit garlands, market and kitchen scenes and depictions of live poultry in farmyards. ...

(1620-1652) Image:Egide Linnig - Entering the harbour.jpg, ''Entering the harbour'' by

Egide Linnig Egide Linnig or Egidius Linnig (25 August 1821 – 13 October 1860) was a Belgians, Belgian painter, draughtsman and engraver who is best known for his marine art and occasional genre scenes. He was one of the first realist engravers in Belgium ...

(mid-19th century) Image:Vos-The Fox.jpg, ''The Fox'' (1860s) by Vincent De Vos Image:Conversation intime (Evariste Carpentier).jpg, ''An Intimate Conversation'' by

(c. 1892)

References

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