Charlier Museum

The Charlier Museum (French: Musée Charlier; Dutch: Charliermuseum) is a museum in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium, exhibiting Belgian art from the end of the 19th century. It is often used for concerts of classical music.

Charlier Museum

Musée Charlier (French) Charliermuseum (Dutch)
Exterior of the museum
Interactive fullscreen map
Established	1928 (1928)
Location	Avenue des Arts / Kunstlaan 16, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Coordinates	50°50′51″N 4°22′11″E
Type	Art museum
Public transit access	1 2 5 6 Arts-Loi/Kunst-Wet and 2 6 Madou
Website	www.charliermuseum.be

The museum is located on the Small Ring (Brussels' inner ring road), at 16, avenue des Arts/Kunstlaan. It is served by the metro stations Arts-Loi/Kunst-Wet (on lines 1, 2, 5 and 6) and Madou (on lines 2 and 6.).

History

The current museum building was bought by the art collector Henri Van Cutsem in 1890. Van Cutsem hired the architect Victor Horta to remodel and extend the building, notably through the installation of two skylights that illuminate the interior of the ground-floor rooms. The renovation in Art Nouveau style was completed in 1893. In 1904, Van Cutsem died and left the house to the sculptor Guillaume Charlier. When Charlier died in 1925, his will requested that the house and the collection be opened as a public museum. The museum was opened in 1928.

Collection

The museum houses a large number of 19th-century paintings, etchings, and drawings by Belgian artists such as Hippolyte Boulenger, Guillaume Vogels, James Ensor, Anna Boch, Auguste Oleffe, Jacob Smits, Alfred Stevens, Émile Wauters, and Antoine Wiertz. Sculptors are also represented, including Guillaume Charlier, Émile Namur, and Rik Wouters. The rooms are rich in furniture and decorative art objects from the Louis XV, Louis XVI, and Empire periods, as well as tapestries from Brussels, Oudenaarde, and Aubusson, along with carpets, porcelain, and silverware bearing various hallmarks.

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  Flowers and Butterflies, James Ensor, 1889
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  Willows by the Scheldt, Guillaume Van Strydonck, 1890
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  July in Newport, Auguste Oleffe, 1904
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  Old Lady, Guillaume Charlier, 1906
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  The Walk, Eugène Laermans, 1907

See also

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

References

Bibliography

• Jacobs, Nathalie; Coerten, Dominique; De Salle, Jean; De Salle, Robin (2012). The Charlier Museum and Victor Horta. Archives d'Architecture Modern. ISBN 978-2-87143-264-7.

External links

• Media related to Charlier Museum at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website