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 the Royal Quarter of 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] Located at 1, place Royale/Koningsplein, it is served by the tram stop Royale/Koning (on lines 92 and 93).^[3][4]

Collection

Artists represented in the museum's collection include

Important international artists of the period in the collection include Alfred Sisley, 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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  Self-portrait, Constantin Meunier, 1885
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  Portrait of Marguerite Khnopff, Fernand Khnopff, 1887
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  Les masques singuliers, James Ensor, 1892
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  Divan Japonais, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893
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  Nature, Alphonse Mucha, 1899–1900
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  Three-armed dandelion lamp, Antonin Daum and Louis Majorelle, 1902

See also

• List of museums in Brussels
• Art Nouveau in Brussels
• History of Brussels
• Culture of Belgium
• Belgium in the long nineteenth century

References

Citations

Bibliography

• Michèle Van Kalck (red.), De Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België. Twee eeuwen geschiedenis, 2 dln. (in Dutch), Tielt: Lannoo, 2003

External links

• Media related to Fin de Siècle Museum at Wikimedia Commons
• Musée Fin-de-Siècle Museum official website