The Charlier Museum (french: Musée Charlier, nl, Charliermuseum) is a museum in
Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, a municipality of
Brussels, Belgium, exhibiting Belgian art of the end of the 19th century.
The museum is often used for concerts of classical music.
History
The current museum building was bought by an art collector
Henri Van Cutsem
Henri-Émile Van Cutsem (1839–1904) was a Belgian patron of the arts, and also himself a painter
Biography
Van Cutsem was born in Brussels into a family of hoteliers who had become wealthy from their business. He studied law at Liège. ...
in 1890. Van Cutsem hired
Victor Horta, a famous architect, to remodel and extend the building. The renovation in the
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...
style was completed in 1893. In 1904, Van Cutsem died and left the house to a sculptor
Guillaume Charlier
Guillaume Charlier (1854–1925) was a Belgian sculptor, most of whose works are now kept in the Charlier Museum in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode.
Life
Charlier was born in Ixelles, the eldest son of a large family. He was 15 years old in 1870 ...
, who died in 1925 and in his will requested that the house and the collection be opened as a public museum. The museum was opened in 1928.
See also
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Art Nouveau in Brussels
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History of Brussels
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Culture of Belgium
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Belgium in "the long nineteenth century"
In the history of Belgium, the period from 1789 to 1914, dubbed the " long 19th century" by the historian Eric Hobsbawm, includes the end of Austrian rule and periods of French and Dutch occupation of the region, leading to the creation of the ...
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Museums in Brussels
Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
Art museums and galleries in Belgium