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The Belgian Blake: Alexander Adams visits two little-known artist-museums in Brussels, the Musées Wiertz and Meunier

Meunier Reaccessioned. A statue formerly in the collection of the Berlin Museums has been reacquired. The Sower (1896), (above) by Constantin Meunier was appropriated from a private collection by the GDR. The work, one among a number of bronzes by Rodin, Degas and Maillol, was returned to the ownership of the family of the original owner. At an auction of the works this year The Sower was purchased on behalf of the Alte Nationalgalerie. It is now sited in the colonnaded courtyard between the Alte Nationalgalerie and the newly opened Neues Museum

The house-museums of two Belgian masters of the 19th Century shed light on artistic and social concerns of the era. As case studies they exemplify dominant thematic trends in both halves of that century – Romanticism in the first half and Realism in the second. Antoine Wiertz (1806-1865) was born to an impoverished family in… Continue reading The Belgian Blake: Alexander Adams visits two little-known artist-museums in Brussels, the Musées Wiertz and Meunier