Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tournai
The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Tournai, Belgium, is an art museum. At the beginning of the 20th century, Henri Van Cutsem, a Belgian art collector, offered his collection of art to the city of Tournai in 1905. The collection contained important works of important 19th century French painters like Manet, Monet, Seurat and others.
Also recorded as Musee des Beaux-Arts Tournai
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tournai
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- Musée Des Beaux-Arts De Tournai
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- 1928
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- Belgium
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The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Tournai, Belgium, is an art museum. At the beginning of the 20th century, Henri Van Cutsem, a Belgian art collector, offered his collection of art to the city of Tournai in 1905. The collection contained important works of important 19th century French painters like Manet, Monet, Seurat and others.
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The Belgian Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta started drafting a new building that would contain the Van Cutsem donation and other holdings already owned by the city of Tournai but the First World War intervened and construction was delayed. Horta abandoned his first designs made in a typical Art Nouveau style, shifting to the popular art deco style. The building, which opened in 1928, is a graceful curved version of usually strict linearity of art deco, in this, it is similar to Horta's Brussels Central Station.
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• Name — Musée Des Beaux-Arts De Tournai • Location — Tournai, Belgium • Type — Art museum • Website — https: mba.tournai.be/ • Illustration — View to a street: rue Saint Martin
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1928
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tournai established.
1928
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tournai is recorded from 1928.
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