Henry Clemens van de Velde was a Belgian painter, architect, interior designer, and art theorist. Together with Victor Horta and Paul Hankar, he is considered one of the founders of Art Nouveau in Belgium. He worked in Paris with Siegfried Bing, the founder of the first gallery of Art Nouveau in Paris. Van de Velde spent the most important part of his career in Germany and became a major figure in the German Jugendstil. He had a decisive influence on German architecture and design at the beginning of the 20th century.
Constantin Meunier was a Belgian painter and sculptor. He made an important contribution to the development of modern art by elevating the image of the industrial worker, docker and miner to an icon of modernity. His work is a reflection of the industrial, social and political developments of his day and represents a compassionate and committed view of man and the world.
Charles van der Stappen, was a Belgian sculptor, born in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode.
Constantin Lucaci was a Romanian contemporary sculptor, best known for his monumentalist sculptures and his kinetic fountains most made from stainless steel, among which those from the Romanian cities of Reșița and Constanța are best known. He was born in Bocșa Română, today a part of Bocșa, Caraș-Severin County.
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium are a group of art museums in Brussels, Belgium. They include six museums: the Oldmasters Museum, the Magritte Museum, the Fin-de-Siècle Museum, the Modern Museum, the Antoine Wiertz Museum and the Constantin Meunier Museum.
Eugène-Ghislain-Alfred Demolder was a Belgian writer.
Georg Treu was a Classical archaeologist and curator of the sculpture collection at the Albertinum.
The Botanical Garden of Brussels is a former botanical garden in Brussels, Belgium. It was created in 1826 and stood on the Rue Royale/Koningsstraat in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, near Brussels' Northern Quarter financial district, until its relocation in 1938 to the National Botanic Garden of Belgium in Meise, Flemish Brabant.
Despite its size, Belgium has a long and distinguished artistic tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages, considerably pre-dating the foundation of the current state in 1830. Art from the areas making up modern Belgium is called in English Netherlandish up to the separation with the Netherlands from 1570 on, and Flemish until the 18th century.
M – Museum Leuven or simply M is an art museum in the inner city of Leuven, Belgium, which was officially opened in 2009. The museum has a collection of some 46,000 works, which range from late-Gothic paintings and sculptures to 16th century local artists such as Jan Rombouts the Elder and Josse van der Baren to 19th-century paintings and sculptures by various Flemish masters including Constantin Meunier, Jef Lambeaux and George Minne.
Georgette Meunier was a Belgian still life painter.
The Museum of Ixelles, also called the (Municipal) Museum of Fine Arts of Ixelles, is a municipal art museum in Brussels, Belgium, focusing on Belgian art from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Events in the year 1831 in Belgium.
Alfred Verhaeren was a Belgian painter known for his portraits, interior scenes, architectural paintings and still lifes. He participated in the second wave of Belgian Realism and was later influenced by Impressionism.
The following lists events that happened during 1885 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
The following lists events that happened during 1886 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Joaquín Bilbao Martínez was a Spanish sculptor. The equestrian statue of Ferdinand III of Castile in the Plaza Nueva, Seville, opposite the Town Hall, was sculpted by him.
Le Marteleur is a bronze sculpture by Belgian sculptor Constantin Meunier. It depicts a hammerman holding a pair of pincers and wearing an apron, cap, and spats. Created in 1886, several casts of the statue exist, including one on the campus of Columbia University.
Débardeur du port d'Anvers, also known as Der Hafenarbeiter is a bronze sculpture created by Belgian artist Constantin Meunier in 1890.
Inscription reads: "C. Meunier – Saemann" (1896), Berlin-Mitte/Berlin/Germany
The sculpture outside the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Germany, 2016
Autumn or The Sower in the Botanical Garden of Brussels
