The Museum of Ixelles (french: Musée d'Ixelles, nl, Museum van Elsene), also called the (Municipal) Museum of Fine Arts of Ixelles (french: Musée (communal) des Beaux-Arts d'Ixelles, link=no, nl, (Gemeentelijk) Museum voor Schone Kunsten van Elsene, link=no), is a municipal art museum in Brussels, Belgium, focusing on Belgian art from the 19th and 20th centuries. The museum is located at 71, / in Ixelles. It is served by the

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stops / (on line 71) and Malibran (on lines 38 and 60).

History

The Museum of Fine Arts of Ixelles was founded in 1892 to house a collection of works donated by the painter and collector Edmond De Pratere and grew rapidly with donations from generous patrons such as Léon Gauchez (1825–1907), Fritz Toussaint (1846–1920) and

Max Janlet Max Janlet (10 January 1903 – 8 December 1976) was a Belgian garden architect, painter-decorator and patron. He practiced fencing and competed at the 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics The 1932 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the X ...

(1903–1976). The art patron

Octave Maus Octave Maus (12 June 1856 – 26 November 1919) was a Belgian art critic, writer and lawyer. Maus worked with fellow writer/lawyer Edmond Picard, and they together with Victor Arnould and Eugène Robert founded the weekly '' L'Art moderne'' ...

(1856–1919) donated more than 200

impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...

, neo-impressionist and

symbolist Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realis ...

works. In 2018, the museum closed for renovations and an expansion. It is planned to reopen in 2023.

Curators

The curators of the museum have been: * 1902–1926: Emile Meunier * 1929–1956: Jean-Joseph Hoslet * 1957–1987: Jean Cockerel * 1987–2007: Nicole d'Huart * 2007–present: Claire Leblanc

Collection

The museum presents a panorama of Belgian art of the 19th and 20th centuries. The collections bring together paintings, sculpture, and drawings representing the different art movements of this time. A sampling of Flemish masters and some representatives of foreign schools complete the set. A collection of posters includes a complete collection of originals by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The museum also regularly organises temporary exhibitions and has a documentation centre. File:ConstantinMeunier001.jpeg, ''Portrait of Jeanne Meunier'', Constantin Meunier File:EugèneSmits001.jpeg, ''Child with a doll'', Eugène Smits File:JosephCoosemans001.jpg, ''The Sonian Forest'',

Joseph Coosemans Joseph Théodore Coosemans (19 March 1828, Brussels – 24 September 1904, Schaerbeek) was a Belgian landscape painter. Life and work His father, Adriaan, was a merchant, who died when Joseph was only a year old. His mother, Anna, died the foll ...

File:CharlesHermans002.jpeg, ''Young girl by the sea'', Charles Hermans File:JanVerhas001b.jpeg, ''The young ladies van den Perre'',

Jan Verhas Jan Verhas or Jan Frans Verhas (9 January 1834 – 31 October 1896) was a Belgian painter of the Realist school. He was known for his portraits and genre paintings often depicting children of the Belgian bourgeoisie. Jan Verhas also painted h ...

, 1887 File:Guillaume Vogels - La Sennette à Ruysbroeck.jpg, ''Senette in Ruisbroek'',

Guillaume Vogels Guillaume Vogels (9 June 1836, in Brussels – 9 January 1896, in Ixelles) was a Belgian Impressionist painter. Life He was the son of a laborer. After his primary education, he was apprenticed to the Bellis Brothers, a house painting an ...

File:IsidoreVerheyden001.jpeg, ''Turbulent sea'',

Isidore Verheyden Isidore Verheyden (24 January 1846, in Antwerp – 1 November 1905, in Elsene) was a Belgian painter of landscapes, portraits and still life. He was the son of painter Jean-François Verheyden; his first teacher at the Académie Royale de ...

, 1893 File:MaximilienLuce001.jpeg, ''Terril of the coal mine'',

Maximilien Luce Maximilien Luce (13 March 1858 – 6 February 1941) was a prolific French Neo-impressionist artist, known for his paintings, illustrations, engravings, and graphic art, and also for his anarchist activism. Starting as an engraver, he then c ...

, 1896 File:Thé-Richir.jpg, ''The tea (Portrait of Juliette and Rodolphe Wytsman)'', Herman Richir, File:DarioDeRegoyos001.jpeg, ''May rain. Basque Country'', Dario De Regoyos, 1902 File:HenriEdmondCross001.jpeg, ''Pink house'',

Henri-Edmond Cross Henri-Edmond Cross, born Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix, (20 May 1856 – 16 May 1910) was a French painter and printmaker. He is most acclaimed as a master of Neo-Impressionism and he played an important role in shaping the second phase of t ...

, File:EmileClaus001.jpeg, ''Farm in Flanders'', Emile Claus, 1904 File:GeorgesLemmen001.jpeg, ''Nude'', Georges Lemmen, 1907 File:Juliette Wytsman001.jpg, ''Spirea'',

Juliette Wytsman Juliette Wytsman (''née'' Trullemans; 14 July 1866 – 8 March 1925) was a Belgian impressionist painter. She was married to painter Rodolphe Wytsman. Her paintings are in the collections of several museums in Belgium. Life Wytsman was born ...

File:PaulMathieu001.jpeg, ''House by the water'',

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, 1918

References

Citations

Bibliography

* Anne Carre, Isabelle Six, Claire Leblanc and Marianne Fournier, ''Musée d'Ixelles. Les collections'' (in French), Brussels, Silvana Editoriale, 2010

External links

*
Official website
{{Authority control Museums in Brussels Ixelles 1892 establishments in Belgium