The Museum of Fine Arts ( nl, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, MSK) 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 ...
in
Ghent
Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in ...
, Belgium, is situated at the East side of the Citadelpark (near the
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst
The Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (commonly abbreviated as S.M.A.K., translated as ''City Museum for Contemporary Art'') is a relatively new museum located in Ghent, Belgium, and is renowned both for its permanent collection (Art & Languag ...
).
The museum's collection consists of some 9000 artworks, dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Over 600 works can be found on display permanently, with the collection largely focusing on Flemish Art (Southern Netherlands). It also houses several European- especially French- paintings, in addition to a large amount of sculptures.
Next to its permanent collection the museum organises temporary exhibitions. Between March 2011 and January 2021, the museum conducted 41 exhibitions.
The building was designed by city architect
Charles van Rysselberghe
Charles van Rysselberghe (25 July 1850 – 30 April 1920) was a Belgian architect.
Biography
Carolus Julianus van Rysselberghe was born in Meerle, Hoogstraten, on 25 July 1850. He was trained at the Academy of Ghent, studying there between 1863 an ...
around 1900.
In 2007 the museum reopened after four years of restoration.
The museum is a member of The Flemish Art Collection. This is a structural partnership joining the three main museums of fine arts in Flanders: Royal Museum of Fine Arts, the Groeninge Museum in Bruges and the Ghent Museum of Fine Arts. The museums’ collections have all been developed in a similar way and complement each other perfectly. Together, they offer a unique, representative overview of Flemish art from the 15th to the 20th century.
As partners sharing the same responsibility in Belgian cultural heritage, the three museums exchange their expertise, they strive for a more sustainable, high quality management and international awareness of their collections, including works that are part of the world patrimony.
Josse Sébastien van den Abeele
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Abraham van Beijeren
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Frits Van den Berghe
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Biography
He was born in Ghent, where his father was the Librarian at the University of Ghent.MSK *
Pieter de Bloot
Pieter de Bloot (1601 – c. 6 November 1658) was a Dutch painter.
De Bloot, who was born and died in Rotterdam, primarily painted landscapes and genre works
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Jan Boeckhorst
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Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch (, ; born Jheronimus van Aken ; – 9 August 1516) was a Dutch/Netherlandish painter from Brabant. He is one of the most notable representatives of the Early Netherlandish painting school. His work, generally oil on oa ...
Hieronymus Bosch
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Christ Carrying the Cross
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Ferdinand De Braekeleer the Elder
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Jan de Bray
Jan de Bray (c. 1627 – April 4, 1697) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He lived and worked in Haarlem until the age of 60, when he went bankrupt and moved to Amsterdam.
Jan de Bray was influenced by his father Salomon de Bray, and the por ...
Pieter Brueghel the Younger
Pieter Brueghel (also Bruegel or Breughel) the Younger (, ; ; between 23 May and 10 October 1564 – between March and May 1638) was a Flemish painter, known for numerous copies after his father Pieter Bruegel the Elder's work as well as h ...
- ''Wedding Dance in the Open Air'' (17th century MSK *
Emile Claus
Emile Claus (27 September 1849 – 14 June 1924) was a Belgian painter.
Life
Emile Claus was born on 27 September 1849, in Sint-Eloois-Vijve, a village in West Flanders (Belgium), at the banks of the river Lys. Emile was the twelfth child in ...
Gaspar de Crayer
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Paul Delvaux
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- ''The Staircase'' (1946 MSK * Gustave Den Duyts - ''Panoramic View of Ghent'' (c.1881 MSK *
Anthony van Dyck
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The seventh c ...
Henri Evenepoel
Henri-Jacques-Edouard Evenepoel (3 October 1872 in Nice – 27 December 1899 in Paris) was a Belgian artist whose most important works are associated with Fauvism.
Life and career
Evenepoel first studied art in Brussels at the Académie Royale ...
- ''The Spaniard in Paris /Portrait of the Painter Francisco Iturrino'' (1899 MSK
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James Ensor
James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor (13 April 1860 – 19 November 1949) was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for most of his life. He was associated with the artistic g ...
- ''Children at their Morning Toilet '' (1886 MSK *
Léon Frédéric
Léon-Henri-Marie Frédéric (26 August 1856 – 27 January 1940) was a Belgian Symbolist painter. His earliest paintings joined Christian mysticism with pantheistic themes, while his later works increasingly reflected social concerns. Much of his ...
- ''The Funeral Meal'' (1886 MSK * Heinrich Funk - ''Landscape at Dusk in Tyrol '' (1847 MSK *
Théodore Géricault
Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (; 26 September 1791 – 26 January 1824) was a French painter and lithographer, whose best-known painting is ''The Raft of the Medusa''. Although he died young, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic ...
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Portrait of a Kleptomaniac
''Portrait of a Kleptomaniac'' or ''Portrait of an Insane Person'' ( or ) is an 1822 oil painting by Théodore Géricault. It is part of series of ten portraits made for the psychiatrist Étienne-Jean Georget and is currently kept in the Museum o ...
Jan Pauwel Gillemans the Elder
Jan Pauwel Gillemans the Elder (Antwerp, 1618 - Antwerp, 1675) was a Flemish goldsmith and still life painter who is known for his fruit still lifes, flower pieces, vanitas still lifes and pronkstillevens.MSK * James Guthrie - ''Schoolmates'' (1884 MSK *
Cornelis de Heem
Cornelis de Heem (8 April 1631 (baptized) – 17 May 1695 (buried)) was a still-life painter associated with both Flemish Baroque and Dutch Golden Age painting.Sam Segal, "Cornelis (Jansz.) de Heem," ''Grove Art Online'', Oxford University Press ...
- ''Still Life with Flowers and Fruits'' (1670 MSK *
Maarten van Heemskerck
Maarten van Heemskerck or ''Marten Jacobsz Heemskerk van Veen'' (1 June 1498 - 1 October 1574) was a Dutch portrait and religious painter, who spent most of his career in Haarlem. He was a pupil of Jan van Scorel, and adopted his teacher's Itali ...
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Man of Sorrows
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Maarten van Heemskerck
Maarten van Heemskerck or ''Marten Jacobsz Heemskerk van Veen'' (1 June 1498 - 1 October 1574) was a Dutch portrait and religious painter, who spent most of his career in Haarlem. He was a pupil of Jan van Scorel, and adopted his teacher's Itali ...
Jacob Jordaens
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Fernand Khnopff
Fernand Edmond Jean Marie Khnopff (12 September 1858 – 12 November 1921) was a Belgian symbolist painter.
Life Youth and training
Fernand Khnopff was born to a wealthy family that was part of the high bourgeoisie for generations. Khnopf ...
- ''Incense'' (1898 MSK * Urbanus Leyniers - ''The Glorification of Apollo'' (1717 MSK *
Léon Augustin Lhermitte
Léon Augustin Lhermitte (31 July 1844, Mont-Saint-Père – 28 July 1925, Paris) was a French naturalist painter and etcher whose primary subject matter was rural scenes depicting peasants at work.
Life and work
He was a student of Lec ...
Nicolaes Maes
Nicolaes Maes (January 1634December 1693 (buried 24 December 1693)) was a Dutch painter known for his genre scenes, portraits, religious compositions and the occasional still life. A pupil of Rembrandt in Amsterdam, he returned to work in his n ...
Alessandro Magnasco
Alessandro Magnasco (February 4, 1667 – March 12, 1749), also known as il Lissandrino, was an Italian late-Baroque painter active mostly in Milan and Genoa. He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric genre or landscape sce ...
René Magritte
René François Ghislain Magritte (; 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and bounda ...
- ''Perspective II, Manet's Balcony '' (1950 MSK *
Harrington Mann
Harrington Mann (7 October 1864 – 28 February 1937) was a Scottish portrait artist and decorative painter. He was a member of the Glasgow Boys movement in the 1880s.
Art career
Mann was born in Glasgow and began his studies at the Glasgow S ...
Adolf Meckel von Hemsbach
Adolf Meckel von Hemsbach (17 February 1856 – 24 May 1893) was a German landscape painter.
Biography
He was born in Berlin, the son of a professor of pathological anatomy, Johann Heinrich Meckel von Hemsbach (1821-1856) and his wife Theophile ...
- ''The St Catherine Monastery in the Sinai'' (19th century MSK *
Joseph Paelinck
Joseph Paelinck, (20 March 1781 – 19 June 1839) was a painter from the Southern Netherlands.
Biography
Paelinck attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Ghent) and then with Jacques-Louis David in Paris, where he painted in 1804 ''A Judgment ...
- ''The Beautiful Anthia Leading her Companions into the Temple of Diana in Ephesus'' (1820 MSK *
Constant Permeke
Constant Permeke (; 31 July 1886 – 4 January 1952) was a Belgium, Belgian painter and sculptor who is considered the leading figure of Flanders, Flemish expressionism.
Biography
Permeke was born in Antwerp but when he was six years old the fa ...
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- ''The Painter'' (1922 MSK * Hubert van Ravesteyn - ''Still Life with a Pipe, Nuts, a Pitcher and a Tobacco Pouch'' (1670 MSK *
Petrus Johannes van Reysschoot
Petrus Johannes van Reysschoot or Pieter van Reysschoot (Ghent, 18 January 1702 – Ghent, 22 or 24 February 1772) was a Flemish painter and printmaker who is known for his genre scenes, hunting scenes, landscapes, portraits and Christian rel ...
Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque traditio ...
Peter Paul Rubens
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Théo van Rysselberghe
Théophile "Théo" van Rysselberghe (23 November 1862 – 13 December 1926) was a Belgian neo-impressionist painter, who played a pivotal role in the European art scene at the turn of the twentieth century.
Biography
Early years
Born i ...
- ''The Lecture by Emile Verhaeren, 1903'' (1903 MSK *
Theodoor Rombouts
Theodoor Rombouts (2 July 1597 – 14 September 1637) was a Flemish painter who is mainly known for his Caravaggesque genre scenes depicting lively dramatic gatherings as well as religiously-themed works.Hans Vlieghe. "Rombouts, Theodoor." Gr ...
Theodoor Rombouts
Theodoor Rombouts (2 July 1597 – 14 September 1637) was a Flemish painter who is mainly known for his Caravaggesque genre scenes depicting lively dramatic gatherings as well as religiously-themed works.Hans Vlieghe. "Rombouts, Theodoor." Gr ...
- ''Allegory of the Second Bench of Aldermen of ‘Gedele’'' (c.1627 MSK * Hugo Salmson - ''Visiting the Tenant Farmer'' (19th century MSK *
Gustave De Smet
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- ''The Good House'' (1926 MSK * Leon De Smet - ''Interior or A Loving Couple'' (1911 MSK *
Léon Spilliaert
Léon Spilliaert (also Leon Spilliaert; 28 July 1881 – 23 November 1946) was a Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist.
Biography
Spilliaert was born in Ostend, the oldest of seven children of Léonard-Hubert Spilliaert, a perfum ...
Léon Spilliaert
Léon Spilliaert (also Leon Spilliaert; 28 July 1881 – 23 November 1946) was a Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist.
Biography
Spilliaert was born in Ostend, the oldest of seven children of Léonard-Hubert Spilliaert, a perfum ...
- ''The Second of November (Interior)'' (1908 MSK * Alfred Stevens - ''Mary-Magdalene'' (1887 MSK *
Tintoretto
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- ''Portrait of Giovanni Paolo Cornaro'' (1561 MSK *
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Edgard Tytgat
Edgard Tytgat (Brussels, 28 April 1879 – Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, 11 January 1957) was a Belgian
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Edgard Tytgat
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Edgard Tytgat
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Lodewijk de Vadder
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- ''The Soignes Forest with Market Vendors '' (17th century MSK *
Cornelis de Vos
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Anna De Weert
Anna De Weert, née Cogen; Anna Virginie Caroline De Weert (27 May 1867 – 12 May 1950) was a Belgian painter. She would paint in the Luminist style.
Life
Weert was born in Ghent as Anna Virginie Caroline Cogen. Her family were prosperous with ...
- ''My Studio in June, 1909-1910'' (1909–10 MSK * Pierre Joseph Verhaghen - ''The Presentation of Christ in the Temple'' (1767 MSK *
Frans Verhas
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Liévin De Winne
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De Winne was a pupil of ...
Anna Boch
Anna Rosalie Boch (10 February 1848 – 25 February 1936) was a Belgian painter, born in Saint-Vaast, Hainaut. Anna Boch died in Ixelles in 1936 and is interred there in the Ixelles Cemetery, Brussels, Belgium.
Artistic style
Boch partici ...
Paula Modersohn-Becker
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Jenny Montigny
Jeanne (Jenny) Montigny (8 December 1875, Ghent – 31 October 1937, Deurle) was a Belgian painter.
Life
Montigny's father was a lawyer and government official who oversaw several boards and commissions and was later Dean of the law faculty at ...
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst
The Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (commonly abbreviated as S.M.A.K., translated as ''City Museum for Contemporary Art'') is a relatively new museum located in Ghent, Belgium, and is renowned both for its permanent collection (Art & Languag ...
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (french: Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, nl, Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België) are a group of art museums in Brussels, Belgium. They include six museums: the Oldmasters Muse ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent
The Museum of Fine Arts ( nl, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, MSK) an art museum in Ghent, Belgium, is situated at the East side of the Citadelpark (near the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst).
The museum's collection consists of some 9000 artworks ...