''The Luxembourg Station in Brussels'' is a 1903 painting by

Henri Ottmann Henry Ottmann (also Henri Ottmann) (10 April 1877 – 1 June 1927) was a French painter and printmaker. Biography Henry Ottmann was born on 10 April 1877 in Ancenis (Loire-Atlantique). He made his debut at the Salon La Libre Esthétique i ...

. It's displayed at the

Musée d'Orsay The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) ( en, Orsay Museum) is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art ...

in Paris.Henri Ottmann; ''Vue de la gare du Luxembourg à Bruxelles''

In the Salon of Free Aesthetics, Brussels, 1903,

for the first time exhibited three views of the city's

Luxembourg Station Luxembourg railway station ( lb, Gare Lëtzebuerg, french: Gare de Luxembourg, german: Bahnhof Luxemburg) is the main railway station serving Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. It is operated by Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois, the state-own ...

, picturing one weather condition for each view: wind, frost and fog. It is probable that the painting was one of these three. The point of view is from a bridge which shadows the crossing train tracks. The signal stands just behind the frame, the painting shows its top. This motif is similar to Claude Monet's ''Track signals outside Saint-Lazare station'', 1877 (

Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...

Lower Saxony State Museum The Lower Saxon State Museum Hanover (german: Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover, italics=unset, or simply ) is the state museum of Lower Saxony in Hanover, Germany. Situated adjacent to the New Town Hall, the museum comprises the state ...

). Ottmann was inspired by

French Impressionists Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating ...

, particularly

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "R ...

. Picturing modern subjects in an ornamental way was one of the points of interest of Ottmann.

References

External links

''The Luxembourg Station in Brussels'' at ''musee-orsay.fr''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Luxembourg Station in Brussels 1903 paintings Paintings by Henry Ottmann Paintings in the Musée d'Orsay