The Museum of Ixelles (; ), also called the (Municipal) Museum of Fine Arts of Ixelles (; ), is a

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art museum in

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, Belgium, focusing on Belgian art from the 19th and 20th centuries. The museum is located at 71, / in

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. 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 (1903–1976). The art patron

Octave Maus Octave Maus (12 June 1856 – 26 November 1919) was a Belgian art critic, writer, lawyer and cousin of the painters Anna and Eugène Boch. Maus worked with fellow writer/lawyer Edmond Picard, and they together with Victor Arnould and Eug ...

(1856–1919) donated more than 200

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neo-impressionist Neo-Impressionism is a term coined by French art critic Félix Fénéon in 1886 to describe an art movement founded by Georges Seurat. Seurat's most renowned masterpiece, '' A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte'', marked the beginn ...

and

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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 movement An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific art philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a specific period of time, (usually a few months, years or decades) or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined ...

s 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 Count, ''Comte'' Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), known as Toulouse-Lautrec (), was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colour ...

. The museum also regularly organises temporary exhibitions and has a documentation centre. File:ConstantinMeunier001.jpeg, ''Portrait of Jeanne Meunier'',

Constantin Meunier Constantin Meunier (; 12 April 1831 – 4 April 1905) was a Belgian Painting, painter and sculpture, sculptor. He made an important contribution to the development of modern art by elevating the image of the industrial worker, docker and mi ...

File:EugèneSmits001.jpeg, ''Child with a doll'', Eugène Smits File:JosephCoosemans001.jpg, ''The Sonian Forest'', Joseph Coosemans File:CharlesHermans002.jpeg, ''Young girl by the sea'', Charles Hermans File:JanVerhas001b.jpeg, ''The young ladies van den Perre'', Jan Verhas, 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 Belgium, Belgian painter of landscapes, portraits and still life. He was the son of painter Jean-François Verheyden; his first teacher at the Académie Roya ...

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

Maximilien Luce Maximilien Luce (; 13 March 1858 – 6 February 1941) was a French Neo-impressionist artist, known for his paintings, graphic art and his anarchist activism. Starting as a wood-engraver, he subsequently concentrated on painting, first as a ...

, 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 (; 20 May 1856 – 16 May 1910), born Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix (), 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 ...

, File:EmileClaus001.jpeg, ''Farm in Flanders'',

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 (river), Lys. Emile was the twe ...

, 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 bor ...

File:PaulMathieu001.jpeg, ''House by the water'', Paul Mathieu, 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 Art museums and galleries in Brussels Ixelles 1892 establishments in Belgium