Fin-de-Siècle Museum

{{Short description|Museum in Brussels, Belgium}}

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| caption = Waterlily bookcase by Louis Majorelle, in the Gillon-Crowet collection

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| location = Place Royale / Koningsplein 1,
1000 City of Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium

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| collections = Impressionism, Art Nouveau

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The Fin-de-Siècle Museum ({{langx|fr|Musée Fin-de-Siècle}}, {{IPA|fr|myze fɛ̃ də sjɛkl|pron}}; {{langx|nl|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.{{cite web|title=Musée Fin-de-Siècle Museum|url=http://www.fine-arts-museum.be/en/museums/musee-fin-de-siecle-museum|website=Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium|accessdate=26 May 2016}}

The museum, inaugurated on 6 December 2013, partly replaces the Royal Museum of Modern Art ({{langx|fr|Musée royal d'Art moderne|link=no}}; {{langx|nl|Koninklijk Museum voor Moderne Kunst|link=no}}), closed on 1 February 2011, and is partially housed in its former halls.{{cite journal|last1=Trend|first1=Nick|title=Brussels: Inside the new Musée Fin-de-Siècle|journal=The Telegraph|date=6 December 2013|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/belgium/brussels/articles/Brussels-Inside-the-new-Musee-Fin-de-Siecle/|accessdate=26 May 2016}} Located at 1, place Royale/Koningsplein, it is served by the tram stop {{lang|fr|Royale|italic=no}}/{{lang|nl|Koning|italic=no}} (on lines 92 and 93).{{Cite web |title=Ligne 92 vers SCHAERBEEK GARE - stib.be |url=https://www.stib-mivb.be/horaires-dienstregeling2.html?l=fr&_line=92&_directioncode=V |access-date=2023-12-17 |website=www.stib-mivb.be}}{{Cite web |title=Ligne 93 vers STADE - stib.be |url=https://www.stib-mivb.be/horaires-dienstregeling2.html?l=fr&_line=93&_directioncode=V |access-date=2023-12-17 |website=www.stib-mivb.be}}

Collection

Artists represented in the museum's collection include Emile Claus, Eugène Laermans, 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 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.

File:Constantin Meunier - Painted self-portrait.jpeg|Self-portrait, Constantin Meunier, 1885

File:Fernand Khnopff - Portret van Marguerite - Portrait de Marguerite - Erfgoedfonds Koning Boudewijnstichting - Fonds du Patrimoine Fondation Roi Baudouin.jpg|Portrait of Marguerite Khnopff, Fernand Khnopff, 1887

File:James Ensor, Les masques singuliers, 1892.jpg|Les masques singuliers, James Ensor, 1892

File:Toulouse-Lautrec - Le Divan japonais, INHA.jpg|Divan Japonais, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893

File:La natura - Alfons Mucha.jpg|Nature, Alphonse Mucha, 1899–1900

File:Antonin daum e louis majorelle, lampade a tre braccia dente di leone, 1902.jpg|Three-armed dandelion lamp, Antonin Daum and Louis Majorelle, 1902

See also

References

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