The Museum of Ixelles (; ), also called the (Municipal) Museum of Fine Arts of Ixelles (; ), is a
municipal
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the gov ...
art museum in
Brussels
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, Belgium, focusing on Belgian art from the 19th and 20th centuries.
The museum is located at 71, / in
Ixelles
(French language, French, ) or (Dutch language, Dutch, ) is one of the List of municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located to the south-east of Pentagon (Brussels), Brusse ...
.
It is served by the
bus
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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
impressionist
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...
,
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
symbolist
Symbolism or symbolist may refer to:
*Symbol, any object or sign that represents an idea
Arts
*Artistic symbol, an element of a literary, visual, or other work of art that represents an idea
** Color symbolism, the use of colors within various c ...
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
See also
*
List of museums in Brussels
This is a list of museums in Brussels, Belgium. It includes museums situated in any of the municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region.
Museums
Former museums
* Underwear Museum - Moved to Lessines, Hainaut (province), Hainaut in 2016
* Scient ...
*
Art Nouveau in Brussels
The Art Nouveau movement of architecture and design first appeared in Brussels, Belgium, in the early 1890s, and quickly spread to France and to the rest of Europe. It began as a reaction against the formal vocabulary of European academic art, ...
*
History of Brussels
Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital ...
*
Culture of Belgium
The culture of Belgium involves both the aspects shared by all Belgians regardless of the language they speak and the differences between the main cultural communities: the Dutch-speaking Belgians (mostly Flemish) and the French-speaking B ...
*
Belgium in the long nineteenth century
In the history of Belgium, the period from 1789 to 1914, dubbed the "Long nineteenth century, long 19th century" by the historian Eric Hobsbawm, includes the end of Habsburg monarchy, Austrian rule and periods of French First Republic, French ...
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
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Art museums and galleries in Brussels
Ixelles
1892 establishments in Belgium