Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent
The Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium, is situated at the East side of the Citadelpark.
The museum holds a large permanent collection of art from the Middle Ages until the mid 20th century. The collection focuses on Flemish Art but also has several European- especially French- paintings. It also has a large amount of sculptures.
Next to its permanent collection the museum organises temporary exhibitions.
The building was designed by city architect Charles van Rysselberghe around 1900.
In 2007 the museum reopened after four years of restoration.
Here's an overview of the latest and current exhibitions.
- 15.08.2002-17.11.2002 Max Ernst, the graphic work
- 06.10.2007-13.01.2008 British Vision - Observation and Imagination in British Art 1750-1950
- 20.09.2008-18.01.2009 Piranesi
- 21.03.2009-21.06.2009 Emile Claus
- 17.10.2009-07.02.2010 3 x Avant-Garde - Fernand Léger/Max Beckmann/Roar China
- 27.03.2010-27.06.2010 Gustave Van de Woestyne
- 16.10.2010-27.02.2011 James Ensor and contemporary art
- 08.10.2011-29.01.2012 John Constable, oil sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- 25.02.2012-03.06.2012 Ford Madox Brown, tradition and innovation among the English Pre-Raphaelites
- 01.07.2012-01.07.2017 KMSKA on the road
- 02.03.2013-30.06.2013 Modernism
As partners sharing the same responsibility in Belgian cultural heritage, the three museums exchange their expertise, they strive for a more sustainable, high quality management and international awareness of their collections, including works that are part of the world patrimony.
Paintings
Source:- Josse Sébastien van den Abeele - Self Portrait
- Abraham van Beijeren - Still Life with Fish
- Frits Van den Berghe - The Singing Statue
- Pieter de Bloot - Landscape with a Farmhouse
- Jan Boeckhorst - Apollo and Python
- Hieronymus Bosch - St. Jerome at Prayer
- Hieronymus Bosch - Christ Carrying the Cross
- Ferdinand De Braekeleer the Elder - The Bat
- Jan de Bray - Portrait of a Young Woman
- Pieter Brueghel the Younger - Wedding Dance in the Open Air
- Emile Claus - The Skaters
- Gaspar de Crayer - The Judgement of Solomon
- Paul Delvaux - The Staircase
- Gustave Den Duyts - Panoramic View of Ghent
- Anthony van Dyck - Jupiter and Antiope
- Henri Evenepoel - The Spaniard in Paris /Portrait of the Painter Francisco Iturrino
- James Ensor - Children at their Morning Toilet
- Léon Frédéric - The Funeral Meal
- Heinrich Funk - Landscape at Dusk in Tyrol
- Théodore Géricault - Portrait of a Kleptomaniac '
- Jan Pauwel Gillemans the Elder - Still Life with Vegetables and Fruits
- James Guthrie - Schoolmates
- Cornelis de Heem - Still Life with Flowers and Fruits
- Maarten van Heemskerck - Man of Sorrows
- Maarten van Heemskerck - Calvary
- Jacob Jordaens - The Judgement of Midas
- Fernand Khnopff - Incense
- Urbanus Leyniers - The Glorification of Apollo
- Léon Augustin Lhermitte - The Grandmother
- Nicolaes Maes - Portrait of a Woman
- Alessandro Magnasco Praying Monks
- René Magritte - Perspective II, Manet's Balcony
- Harrington Mann - Kathleen
- Adolf Meckel von Hemsbach - The St Catherine Monastery in the Sinai
- Joseph Paelinck - The Beautiful Anthia Leading her Companions into the Temple of Diana in Ephesus
- Constant Permeke - Ostend Harbour
- Nicolas de Plattemontagne - Portrait of a Young Man
- Ramah - The Painter
- Hubert van Ravesteyn - Still Life with a Pipe, Nuts, a Pitcher and a Tobacco Pouch
- Petrus Johannes van Reysschoot - The Meet
- Peter Paul Rubens - The Flagellation of Christ
- Peter Paul Rubens - Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata
- Théo Van Rysselberghe - The Lecture by Emile Verhaeren, 1903
- Theodoor Rombouts - Allegory of the Five Senses
- Theodoor Rombouts - Allegory of the Second Bench of Aldermen of ‘Gedele’
- Hugo Salmson - Visiting the Tenant Farmer
- Gustave De Smet - The Good House
- Leon De Smet - Interior or A Loving Couple
- Léon Spilliaert - Silhouette of the Artist
- Léon Spilliaert - The Second of November
- Alfred Stevens - Mary-Magdalene
- Tintoretto - Portrait of Giovanni Paolo Cornaro
- Prosper de Troyer - With the Birds
- Edgard Tytgat - Invitation to Paradise
- Edgard Tytgat - The Last Doll
- Edgard Tytgat - Four Nude Girls in a Boat
- Lodewijk de Vadder - The Soignes Forest with Market Vendors
- Cornelis de Vos - Family Portrait
- Anna De Weert - My Studio in June, 1909-1910
- Pierre Joseph Verhaghen - The Presentation of Christ in the Temple
- Frans Verhas - The Lion
- Liévin De Winne - Portrait of the Sculptor Paul De Vigne
- Gustave Van de Woestyne - Still Life
- Anders Leonard Zorn - With Mother