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Fin-de-Siècle Museum

Fin-de-Siècle Museum

Brussels, Belgium · Website

The story

The Fin-de-Siecle Museum in Brussels, opened in 2013 as part of the city's Royal Museums of Fine Arts, does one thing and does it deeply: it covers the roughly 40 years around 1900 when Brussels was one of Europe's most inventive art cities. Belgium was small, rich and open, and avant-garde painters, architects and musicians converged on it.

The rooms move through Belgian Symbolism and beyond, from the dreamlike figures of Fernand Khnopff to the masks and skeletons of James Ensor and the still, pale seascapes of Leon Spilliaert, out into the Art Nouveau of the architect Victor Horta, whose furniture and designs sit among the paintings. It reaches into the music and literature of the moment too.

The galleries descend underground below the older museums on the Kunstberg, so you work through the whole period on levels sinking down from the street.

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Collection

12 works
The Sphinx, or, The CaressesThe Sphinx, or, The CaressesFernand Khnopff, 1896The Seine at La Grande JatteThe Seine at La Grande JatteGeorges Seurat, 1888The RayThe RayJames Ensor, 1892A ColouristA ColouristJames Ensor, 1880CalanqueCalanquePaul Signac, 1906Conversation in the fields. Pont-AvenConversation in the fields. Pont-AvenPaul Gauguin, 1888Head of a Young Peasant in a Peaked CapHead of a Young Peasant in a Peaked CapVincent van Gogh, 1885Portrait of Suzanne BambridgePortrait of Suzanne BambridgePaul Gauguin, 1891Portrait of the Artist's FatherPortrait of the Artist's FatherJames Ensor, 1881Skeletons Fighting over a Smoked HerringSkeletons Fighting over a Smoked HerringJames Ensor, 1891The LamplighterThe LamplighterJames Ensor, 1880The Sombre LadyThe Sombre LadyJames Ensor, 1881