Fin-de-Siècle Museum

The Fin-de-Siècle Museum (French: Musée Fin-de-Siècle, Dutch: Fin-de-Siècle Museum; "Museum of the Turn of the Century") is a museum in central Brussels, Belgium. It is dedicated to the full spectrum of the arts of the period between 1884, when the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts ("Free Society of Fine Arts") was founded Brussels, and 1914, the year of the outbreak of World War I. It is one of the constituent museums of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.[1] The museum opened on 6 December 2013.[2]

Fin-de-Siècle Museum
Musée Fin-de-Siècle (French)
Fin-de-Siècle Museum (Dutch)
Waterlily bookcase by Louis Majorelle, in the Gillon-Crowet collection
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Established6 December 2013 (2013-12-06)
LocationBrussels, Belgium
Coordinates50°50′31″N 4°21′30″E
CollectionsImpressionism, Art Nouveau
WebsiteOfficial website

Collection

Artists represented in the museum's collection include Constantin Meunier, James Ensor, Henri Evenepoel, Fernand Khnopff, and Léon Spilliaert. The museum also celebrates the richness of the period in literature, architecture, photography, opera, music, and poetry, featuring works by Maurice Maeterlinck, Emile Verhaeren, Octave Maus, Victor Horta, Henry Van de Velde, Maurice Kufferath, and Guillaume Lekeu.

Important international artists of the period in the collection include Vincent van Gogh, Auguste Rodin, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, and Edward Burne-Jones. The Gillon-Crowet gallery houses a collection of Art Nouveau furniture and decorative arts.[1][2]

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References

Notes
  1. "Musée Fin-de-Siècle Museum". Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
  2. Trend, Nick (6 December 2013). "Brussels: Inside the new Musée Fin-de-Siècle". The Telegraph. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
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