Musée d´Art Moderne

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Founded two centuries ago, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium hold some twenty thousand paintings, sculptures and drawings. Located in Brussels, they consist of the Ancient Art Museum (XV - XVII century), the Modern Art Museum (XIX ­ XX century), the Wiertz Museum, the Meunier Museum and the Museé Magritte Museum.

This section houses works of art from the end of the 18th century up to the modern period: paintings, sculptures and drawings. It represents the logical continuation of the artistic evolution which starts in the Museum of Ancient Art. This particularity of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium contributes to their originality.

The collections from the 19th century are exhibited in the neoclassical building overlooking the place Royale (entrance to the Museum of Modern Art). The paintings and sculptures on display are arranged on a thematic and chronological basis and are spread over six floors or levels. Those of the 20th century are grouped together in the rooms which were opened in 1984. In part underground, these are arranged around a light shaft which gives the architectural structure a special identity.

The Modern Art section also includes the Antoine Wiertz and Constantin Meunier Museums, which are specially devoted to the work of those two artists who were key figures in Belgian art in the 19th century.
   
 
 

represented artists

Pierre Alechinsky      Carl Andre      Giovanni Anselmo      Arman      Jean Arp      Francis Bacon      Christian Boltanski      Pierre Bonnard      Marcel Broodthaers      Edward Burne-Jones      Pol Bury      Alexander Calder      Marc Chagall      Tony Cragg      Giorgio de Chirico      Gustave de Smet      William Degouve de Nuncques      Jo Delahaut      Christian Dotremont      James Ensor      Dan Flavin      Lucio Fontana      Emilio Greco      Bernhard Heiliger      Paul Joostens      Asger Jorn      Donald Judd      Fernand Khnopff      Anselm Kiefer      Paul Klee      Henri Laurens      Bernd Lohaus

Richard Long      René Magritte      Edouard Manet      E. L. T. Mesens      Henri Michaux      Jean-Francois Millet      Henry Moore      Louise Nevelson      Claes Oldenburg      Giuseppe Penone      Pablo Picasso      Arnaldo Pomodoro      Odilon Redon      Pierre-Auguste Renoir      Germaine Richier      Felicien Rops      Ulrich Rückriem      George Segal      Victor Servranckx      Georges Seurat      Paul Signac      Mark Tobey      David Tremlett      Cy Twombly      Henry Van de Velde      Vincent van Gogh      Georges Vantongerloo      Didier Vermeiren      Edouard Vuillard      Ossip Zadkine