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Guillaume Charlier (1854–1925) was a Belgian sculptor, most of whose works are now kept in the Charlier Museum in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode.
Charlier Museum official website: 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 when his father died and he was obliged to become the family's breadwinner. In 1880,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. ...
, an art collector and patron of artists, bought his first works. Charlier spent some months in Italy where he came into contact with ancient art. He was also interested in the ordinary man in the street. He was also a portraitist.
He was a member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and became a member of the Groupe des XX
''Les XX'' ( French; "''Les Vingt''"; ; ) was a group of twenty Belgian painters, designers and sculptors, formed in 1883 by the Brussels lawyer, publisher, and entrepreneur Octave Maus. For ten years, they held an annual exhibition of their art ...
in 1885, when the sculptor Jef Lambeaux resigned from it.
In 1904 Henri Van Cutsem, his patron, died and bequeathed him the house in the Avenue des Arts in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode where he had been living and working. When Charlier himself died in 1925 his will left the house to the Commune of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode on condition that it should be opened to the public as a museum, as it was in 1928.
Charlier is buried in the Cemetery of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
Saint-Josse-ten-Noode Cemetery (french: Cimetière de Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, nl, Begraafplaats van Sint-Joost-ten-Node) is a cemetery belonging to Saint-Josse-ten-Noode in Brussels, Belgium, where the municipality's inhabitants have the right ...
.
His works are now in Brussels in the Charlier Museum, in Tournai
Tournai or Tournay ( ; ; nl, Doornik ; pcd, Tornai; wa, Tornè ; la, Tornacum) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. It lies southwest of Brussels on the river Scheldt. Tournai is part of Euromet ...
in the collections of Henry Van Cutsem now held by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tournai and in Blankenberge
Blankenberge (; french: Blankenberghe; vls, Blanknberge) is a city and a municipality in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the town of Blankenberge proper and the settlement of Uitkerke.
On 1 December 2014, Bla ...
.
External links
Charlier Museum official website: Guillaume Charlier
Further reading
* Fontier, J., 1994:''Blankenberge, het kunstpatrimonium'', pp. 50–53. Blankenberge * De Keyser, E., 1990: ''De 19de eeuwse Belgische beeldhouwkunst'', pp. 321–325. Brussels * Ketels, Elia, 1979: "Guillaume Charlier" in the ''Biographie Nationale'', part 41, col. 110–114. Brussels * Pierron, Sander, 1932: ''La sculpture en Belgique, 1830–1930'', pp. 63, 64 and 69. Paris-Brussels * Gauchez, M., 1922: ''Les vivants et les morts'', p. 249-252. Brussels * Pierron, Sander, 1913: ''Guillaume Charlier''. Brussels * Verdainne, G., 1897: ''Guillaume Charlier''. Bergen {{DEFAULTSORT:Charlier, Guillaume 1854 births 1925 deaths People from Ixelles Belgian sculptors