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Josef Hoffmann - Falling for BeautyIn October 1955, Viennese architect and designer Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) travelled to Brussels on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Stoclet House, the project that came to be known as a “palace” and shaped his life and career. The enduring myth surrounding this building as well as the particular product culture that emerged from the craftsmanship of the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese workshops), has dominated the approaches to his practice to this day. The exhibition JOSEF HOFFMANN - Falling for Beauty wishes to offer a broader perspective by presenting Hoffmann’s artistry, for the first time in Belgium, as it develops through six decades of production.
J.H., tea set, 1903 (c)MAK/Katrin Wisskirchen
The timeless beauty of Hoffmann’s creations not only shows his relevance as a historical phenomenon but also as a source of inspiration for different generations of students, at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts and elsewhere, making him especially an international reference for postmodern practices. Considering the challenge of introducing Hoffmann in Brussels, this retrospective aims to provide a deeper insight in Hoffmann’s ideals and their evolution both due to and regardless of the diverse ideological and social circumstances in which they took form. The exhibition features a variety of well-known works together with rare pieces from private collections. The narrative is nourished by biographical details and new material on previously overlooked aspects; all to further extend our consideration of a leading figure in the field of modern design.
The sections of the exhibition are oriented around one or more architectural models ––including a new model of Hoffmann’s pavilion for the Werkbund exhibition in Cologne in 1914––that serve as epitomes and key references to consider constellations of furniture, objects, designs, textiles, and documents. In this regard, a juxtaposition of multiple narratives is proposed, covering every aspect of Hoffmann’s artistic production: architecture, design, decorative arts, scenography, writing and teaching. In addition, focus will go to his creative method as well as his use of colour.
The exhibition JOSEF HOFFMANN - Falling for Beauty at the Art & History Museum in Brussels provides an exceptional opportunity to discover an artist who understood beauty as an absolute requirement for individual and social transformation. This project is developed in collaboration with the Applied Art Museum of Vienna (MAK) and takes as its point of departure the major scientific work presented in the exhibition JOSEF HOFFMANN: Progress Through Beauty (2020/2021), curated by Matthias Boeckl, Rainald Franz, Christian Witt-Dörring. The exhibition is a central event of the 2023 Art Nouveau year in Brussels. *** Josef Hoffmann was born in 1870 in Brtnice, Moravia, then-part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today the Czech Republic. He was an architect and “all-round designer”— a description he fully lived up to. As an innovator, he was uniquely conscious of tradition. At the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, he studied under Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer and Otto Wagner. He was among the founders of the Vienna Secession and co-established the Wiener Werkstätte (1903-32), his most-noted achievements including the Purkersdorf Sanatorium (1904-05) or the Palais Stoclet in Brussels (1905-11). Josef Hoffmann’s long life spanned more than eight decades of which he spent at least six active as an artist. Until his death in 1956, at the age of eighty-five, he lived and worked through five succeeding political systems while influencing hundreds of designers to the present day. As he fell in and out of fashion, Hoffmann always remained true to his individual and high creative standards. Art and History Museum Parc du Cinquantennaire Book your ticket for the Josef Hoffmann exhibition on the website of the Art ad History Museum Opening hours: Tu - Fr : 10 am - 5 pm; Sa - Su - public holidays : 10 am - 5 pm - Closed on Mondays
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Since 2020, ARNAUD DE MEESTER has been the manager of the Forum du Sablon. Recently renovated, the gallery is located in this district of Sablon popular among art lovers.
This year is synonymous with new experiences: this new exhibition DROP ART UNDER THE XMAS TREE brings together 10 Belgian and French artists. The Forum du Sablon offers a variety of works such as painting, photography, sculpture and drawings.
​This exhibition will be held every day, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m, from December 5 to 20 2022 at the Forum du Sablon, 8A rue Bodenbroek and will be called "Drop Art Under the Xmas Tree", due to its proximity to Christmas.
www.forumdusablon.com
This year is synonymous with new experiences: this new exhibition DROP ART UNDER THE XMAS TREE brings together 10 Belgian and French artists. The Forum du Sablon offers a variety of works such as painting, photography, sculpture and drawings.
​This exhibition will be held every day, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m, from December 5 to 20 2022 at the Forum du Sablon, 8A rue Bodenbroek and will be called "Drop Art Under the Xmas Tree", due to its proximity to Christmas.
www.forumdusablon.com
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Portrait of an Artist:
J.GROLLS Originally from Normandy, France, born in 1990, J.Grolls grew up around her brothers and sisters in a family where art is practiced in all its forms. If music is very present in the family cocoon, she discovers a penchant for graphic art, design and painting that she develops in parallel with her studies. ​ In 2018, J.Grolls moved to Brussels and discovered a city in line with his artistic appetite. From neat interior architecture to the facades of mansions, passing through a multitude of frescoes hidden between buildings, the artist found inspiration and began to create her first paintings. www.j-grolls.com |
​The art of J.Grolls wants to compose with interior designs. Bringing harmony and luminosity, the artist creates by working on colors and textures through large format paintings. 
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J.GROLLS - TOTEM
 The Shin hanga exhibition (14/10/2022 – 15/01/2023) will feature no less than 220 Japanese prints from two private collections in the Netherlands, as well as sketches, studies and prints from the collection of the grandson of the publisher Watanabe. Next to these works, the visitors will find a selection of Shin hanga prints from the rich collection of the Art & History Museum.  The Shin hanga (literally « new prints ») art movement was a revival of traditional printmaking (ukiyo-e) in the early 20th century. The publisher Watanabe Shōzaburō (1885-1962), noting the decline in xylographic production due to competition from new imported techniques such as photography and lithography, was the movement's greatest promoter. He gathered around him artists whose drawings were printed using traditional woodblock printing techniques. | The public will see a selection of masterpieces from three leading shin hanga collections. Shin hanga – The new prints of Japan 1900-1960 fits into the Art & History Museum’s vision of sharing top works with a wider public. The subject matter is easily accessible. The fascinating beauty and rarity of the prints will be mouth-watering not only for enthusiasts, but also for those discovering this art for the first time |
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While retaining classic themes such as landscapes, beautiful women (bijin), kabuki actors and flowers-and-birds, Shin hanga prints also reflect a modernizing Japan and seduce with a new aesthetic and an extremely high production quality.
The public will see a selection of masterpieces from three leading shin hanga collections, that is two Dutch private collections and the Japanese collection of Watanabe Shōzaburō, the publisher who was the key figure of the shin hanga movement. For this exhibition, his grandson is lending prints that have never before been seen outside Japan. These loans are supplemented with shin hanga prints from the Art & History Museum’s own rich collection.
Shin hanga. The new prints of Japan 1900-1960 13.10.22 > 15.01.23
Art & History Museum
Cinquantenaire Park 10 1000 Brussels
Tuesdays to Fridays: 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Last tickets at 4 p.m. Closed on Mondays, on 25th December and 1st January Admission prices €16 / 12 / 6 free for 0-18 years free
The public will see a selection of masterpieces from three leading shin hanga collections, that is two Dutch private collections and the Japanese collection of Watanabe Shōzaburō, the publisher who was the key figure of the shin hanga movement. For this exhibition, his grandson is lending prints that have never before been seen outside Japan. These loans are supplemented with shin hanga prints from the Art & History Museum’s own rich collection.
Shin hanga. The new prints of Japan 1900-1960 13.10.22 > 15.01.23
Art & History Museum
Cinquantenaire Park 10 1000 Brussels
Tuesdays to Fridays: 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Last tickets at 4 p.m. Closed on Mondays, on 25th December and 1st January Admission prices €16 / 12 / 6 free for 0-18 years free
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From October 22 to November 6, Mini-Europe makes you tremble with fear – but also shiver with pleasure. For the occasion, the park dons the colors of Halloween: hundreds of skeletons and monsters have messed up the park. It's a party for skeletons and zombies in the Lunapark but also in and under the cemetery.
What happened with the plane crash at the airport? And over there, is that the train ghost or ghost train? There will be thousands of details to observe. We also mention the revolt miniatures against the model maker: their turn to twist his arms, to drill him, to glue him and to to paint. True to its reputation, Mini-Europe makes it a point of honor to entertain its visitors with fun and humour, but also to highlight our European heritage. |
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Would you like to know the origins Halloween tradition? You don't fear the darkest witch stories of the Middle Age ? Then you are making the right choice by visiting Mini-Europe during the autumn holidays. Additional entertainment is planned from Saturday October 29 to Tuesday November 1: the familiar 1/25 scale models will be visited by actors and extras in the flesh who will bring even more life to the park. During four days, visitors will benefit from additional entertainment. During your visit, you risk coming across a balloon-sculpting Bellhop looking for his haunted hotel, a pirate in trouble of adventures that will challenge you to a sword fight or the angel of death that will freeze your blood! A make-up stand will allow visitors to treat themselves to an even more marked horror look. The price of admission to Mini - Europe remains unchanged during Halloween@Mini-Europe. |
From October 22 to November 6, Mini-Europe makes you tremble with fear – but also shiver with pleasure. Additional entertainment is planned for October 29, 30, 31 and November 1 From Saturday October 29 to Tuesday November 1. The familiar 1/25 scale models will be visited by actors in the flesh which will bring even more life to the park. |
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The Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert in Brussels are a complex of three commercial passages covered over their entire length by glazed arcades.
They consist of:
They consist of:
- the Queen's Gallery
- the King's Gallery
- the Princes' Gallery
| The Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert are the work of the architect Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar. Inaugurated in 1847, these galleries are among the oldest in Europe. The Galerie du Roi houses the Royal Theater of Galleries, while the Galerie de la Reine houses the Vaudeville theatre, inaugurated in 1884 under the name of Casino Saint-Hubert. Apartments occupy the first floor above the shops and performance halls which extend over the two banks of the exclusively pedestrian covered roadway which runs through the three passages. | The Royal Galleries were proposed in 2008 for World Heritage listing and are on UNESCO's "tentative list" in the cultural heritage category 👉 Discover our signature tours including the visit of the Royal St-Hubertus Galeries |
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| The Brussels City Hall is a Gothic and Classical style building located on the Grand-Place of Brussels in Belgium, south of the square, facing the Maison du Roi. It constitutes the only medieval vestige of the Grand-Place and is considered a masterpiece of civil Gothic architecture and, more particularly, of Brabant Gothic. The tower is made up of two very different parts that nevertheless form a harmonious whole: a square base dating from the first phase of construction and a lantern tower built by Jan van Ruysbroeck nearly half a century later. | The spire is surmounted by the statue of Saint Michael, patron saint of the city of Brussels, slaying the dragon: this statue is a work of Martin Van Rode, placed on the tower in 1454. 👉Discover our signature tours including the visit of the Grand Place and its sourroungs |
The main facade of the town hall consists of two asymmetrical wings framing the tower and terminated by corner turrets. The façade is decorated with numerous statues representing the Dukes and Duchesses of Brabant. Each of these statues rests on a historiated cul-de-lampe and is sheltered under a finely carved stone canopy surmounted by a pyramid-shaped stone pinnacle decorated with foliage and topped with a finial. Before the 19th century, the town hall was not adorned as it is now with innumerable statues, apart from the tailpieces, the statues of the eight prophets and a few statues with corner turrets.
The two wings have several asymmetries:
- the left wing (the oldest) is made up of 10 bays while the right wing has only 7;
- the left wing has 11 arcades while the right wing has only 6;
- the windows on the first floor are simple mullioned windows on the left while on the right they are ogival windows incorporating a trilobed oculus;
- the first floor windows are surmounted by a row of statues to the left but not to the right;
- the bays on the second floor are made up of mullioned windows inscribed under a pointed arch surmounted by a trefoil arch which is blind on the left but openwork on the right.
Ommegang | JUNE 29 AND 1 JULY 2022 👉Discover our signature tours including the visit of the Grand Place and its surroundings |
The origins of the Ommegang date back to the middle of the 14th century. This is-knows at the start of a procession in honor of Notre-Dame du Sablon, organized by the Grand Oath of Crossbowmen.
Even today, the Ommegang reveals details every year unsuspected in the history of Brussels. This impressive procession illustrates several aspects of our national folklore and seduced by a form of visual magic as well as many animations. Some 1400 participants in dazzling costumes evoke the presentation of Charles Quint and his son, the Infant Philip (future Philip II).
This year our French-speaking Herald will be one of the great figures of French theater and cinema: Francois Berlean. Winner of the César in the Best Actor in a Supporting Role category for his performance in "My Little Entre-prize” by Pierre Jolivet, he has shot in nearly 40 plays and more than 180 lms.
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This year our French-speaking Herald will be one of the great figures of French theater and cinema: Francois Berlean. Winner of the César in the Best Actor in a Supporting Role category for his performance in "My Little Entre-prize” by Pierre Jolivet, he has shot in nearly 40 plays and more than 180 lms.
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