Henri Van Cutsem
Illustration — Guillaume Charlier: Marble busts of Henri Van Cutsem and his wife Léontine (née Van Opstal), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tournai • Illustration — Henri Van Cutsem: Pastel portrait of Sarah Bernhardt, c. 1903, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim Henri-Émile Van Cutsem (1839–1904) was a Belgian patron of the arts, and also himself a painter
Also recorded as Henri-Emile Van Cutsem · Henri-Émile Van Cutsem
Henri Van Cutsem
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- Born
- 1839 · Brussels metropolitan area.
- Died
- 1904 · province of Luxembourg.
- Nationality
- Belgium
- Occupation
- art collector · patron of the arts · painter
- Fields
- visual arts · art patronage
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Guillaume Charlier: Marble busts of Henri Van Cutsem and his wife Léontine (née Van Opstal), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tournai • Illustration — Henri Van Cutsem: Pastel portrait of Sarah Bernhardt, c. 1903, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim Henri-Émile Van Cutsem (1839–1904) was a Belgian patron of the arts, and also himself a painter
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Biography
Biography
Van Cutsem was born in Brussels into a family of hoteliers who had become wealthy from their business. He studied law at Liège. During long stays in Paris he developed good relations with many of the artistic community. In 1890 he acquired two adjacent blocks of flats on the Avenue des Arts in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode which he had refurbished by Victor Horta. He died in Ochamps of pneumonia.
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Patronage
Van Cutsem developed his father's art collections and gave his moral and financial support to many artists, notably the sculptor Guillaume Charlier, to whom Van Cutsem bequeathed his property on the Avenue des Arts, which after Charlier's death became the Charlier Museum, established on 21 October 1928. Among the many artists whom he supported were Édouard Agneessens, Théodore Baron, Géo Bernier, Jan Van Beers, Eugène Broerman, Albéric Collin, James Ensor, Joseph Stevens and Willy Finch.
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Van Cutsem's collections were given to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Tournai.
Musée des Beaux-Arts. Tournai. Hainaut. Belgium. Sculpture, Guillaume Charlier (1854-1925), Mémorial Henri Van Cutsem, bronze, 1909. Fine arts museum (Musée des Beaux-Arts). Sculpture. Guillaume Charlier (1854-1925). Memorial Henri Van Cutsem. Bronze. 1909.. Guillaume Charlier (1854-1925). PMRMaeyaert@gmail.com. © Paul M.R. Maeyaert; pmrmaeyaert@gmail.com. Europe|Belgium; Europe|Belgium|Hainaut;
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Portrait Sarah Bernhardt, Pastell, um 1903; Privatsammlung, Leihgabe an die Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim
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- 1.Acte de naissance n°4467. Familysearch. 27 décembre 1839.
- 2.Acte de décès n°14. Familysearch. 13 septembre 1904.
- 3.Trésors cachés à Tournai sur Lalibre.be
- 4.Mort d'Henri Van Cutsem. Le Soir. 15 septembre 1904.
- 5.Le musée de Tournai. Le Soir. 18 août 1927. limité.
- 6.Tournai. Mémoire pour les Beaux-Arts : comme un appel au secours, mémoire rédigé sur le mécène Henri Van Cutsem
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