Museum of Ixelles

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The Museum of Ixelles (French: Musée d'Ixelles; Dutch: Museum van Elsene), also called the (Municipal) Museum of Fine Arts of Ixelles (French: Musée (communal) des Beaux-Arts d'Ixelles; Dutch: (Gemeentelijk) Museum voor Schone Kunsten van Elsene), is a municipal art museum in Brussels, Belgium, focusing on Belgian art from the 19th and 20th centuries.

The museum is located at 71, rue Jean Van Volsem/Jean Van Volsemstraat in Ixelles.^[1] It is served by the bus stops Musée d'Ixelles/Museum van Elsene (on line 71)^[2] and Malibran (on lines 38 and 60).^[3][4]

History

The Museum of Fine Arts of Ixelles was founded in 1892 to house a collection of works donated by the painter and collector

In 2018, the museum closed for renovations and an expansion. It is planned to reopen in 2023.[6]

Curators

The curators of the museum have been:^[5]

• 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 movements 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.^[5][7] The museum also regularly organises temporary exhibitions and has a documentation centre.^{[citation needed]}

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  Portrait of Jeanne Meunier, Constantin Meunier
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  Child with a doll, Eugène Smits
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  The Sonian Forest, Joseph Coosemans
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  Young girl by the sea, Charles Hermans
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  The young ladies van den Perre, Jan Verhas, 1887
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  Senette in Ruisbroek, Guillaume Vogels
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  Turbulent sea, Isidore Verheyden, 1893
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  Terril of the coal mine, Maximilien Luce, 1896
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  The tea (Portrait of Juliette and Rodolphe Wytsman), Herman Richir, c. 1898
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  May rain. Basque Country, Dario De Regoyos, 1902
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  Pink house, Henri-Edmond Cross, c. 1901–1905
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  Farm in Flanders, Emile Claus, 1904
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  Nude, Georges Lemmen, 1907
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  Spirea, Juliette Wytsman
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  House by the water, Paul Mathieu, 1918

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

• Anne Carre, Isabelle Six, Claire Leblanc and Marianne Fournier, Musée d'Ixelles. Les collections (in French), Brussels, Silvana Editoriale, 2010

External links

• Media related to Museum of Ixelles at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website