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Private Collectors in Brussels, Antwerp, and Ghent, ca. 1780-1914 Between Public Relevance and Personal Pleasure
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2024 hardcover, dusjacket, Pages: 376 pages,Size:216 x 280 mm , Illustrations:19 b/w, 128 col., 3 tables b/w. Language(s):English FINE. ISBN 9782503606194.
In the first half of the nineteenth century, Belgium was repeatedly praised as a country of collectors and amateurs, and private art and antique collectors were important and highly visible actors in urban cultural life. At a time when the public museum was still a relatively recent innovation, private collections were quite easily accessible for local and international visitors of the same social rank as the collectors. By the beginning of the twentieth century, however, the collector?s position in the public sphere had changed dramatically. Private collections were less accessible to an ever-expanding and increasingly culture-consuming public, and functioned more strongly in the context of the personal and explicitly private aims and networks of their owners. This book uncovers the premises and reasons for private collectors? shifting public role and relevance in nineteenth-century Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent. It examines the specific social, cultural, political, artistic and material context of private collectors? activity. Its main focus is on three related issues: 1) collectors? social profiles and networks; 2) collectors? tastes; and 3) the function, accessibility, display and reception of the collections. Attention is also paid to the differences between Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent with regard to the urban collecting cultures. The book intends to further our understanding of the diverse ways in which private collectors interacted with the social, cultural and artistic life of their cities and what the collectors? changing relationship to the public sphere can tell us about broader shifts in nineteenth-century culture, art and society.TABLE OF CONTENTS Private collectors and the public sphere: An introduction 1. The collector as a research subject 2. Towards a collective biography 3. Of amateurs, connoisseurs and collectionneurs 4. Sources, methods and the urban dimension 5. Looking ahead 1. An elite cultural practice in an age of transition 1.1. Preserving national heritage at the dawn of the nineteenth century 1.2. Belgian amateurs through the eyes of international travellers, ca. 1780-1860 1.3. Transformation of the collector scene, ca. 1860-1914 1.4. Personal profiles, artistic taste and local identities 1.5. Gender norms and the exclusivity of private collections 2. Enlightenment and the persistence of noble collecting, ca. 1780-1860 2.1. Arenberg. A rich tradition of collecting 2.2. The picture gallery and the art historical canon 2.3. Patronage and politics 2.4. Contemporary art and (semi-)private spaces 2.5. The adaptation and (dis)continuation of an influential model 3. Local historiography and Romantic imagination, ca. 1815-1880 3.1. Ghent as a city of antiquarian collecting 3.2. Heritage and experience in the Mus e Minard-Van Hoorebeke 3.3. The collector?s cabinet as a place of artistic inspiration 3.4. Family bonds, gender and the maintenance of a legacy 3.5. The end of Romantic collecting 4. The rise of Belgian art and its patrons, ca. 1830-1860 4.1. Cultural politics and the public life of private collections 4.2. Th odore de Coninck and the encouragement of the Belgian school in Ghent 4.3. The lithograph album: Dissemination and self-presentation 4.4. Common goals, distinct tastes ? 4.5. ? and personal agendas 5. The amateur in an expanding art world, ca. 1850-1900 5.1. Inventing the golden age of private collections: Politics and nostalgia 5.2. The Huybrechts family and the status of contemporary art in Antwerp 5.3. Elite sociability and the collector?s private realm 5.4. Forging a new position in the public sphere 5.5. The public-private divide 6. The cultural significance of the aesthete, ca. 1880-1914 6.1. Personal taste and national representativeness 6.2. Charles-L on Cardon and his multiple roles in the art world 6.3. The lure of the Early Flemish Masters 6.4. The private interior as a work of (national) art 6.5. A model of taste 6.6. Private collections and public impact 7. The emancipation of female taste, ca. 1890-1914 7.1. The disinterested maecenas and the collection as an alternative social space 7.2. Emma Lambotte and the avant-garde in Antwerp 7.3. The home as a means of self-expression and distinction 7.4. Women and the canon of modern Belgian art
AT HOME IN A MUSEUM The story of Henri tte and Fritz Mayer van den Bergh
, Hannibal Publishing, 2021 HARDCOVER , 240 x 170 mm, 240 pages. fine. ISBN 9789463887717.
The Museum Mayer van den Bergh in Antwerp is a house full of art. Art which surprises, intrigues, moves. The museum today is internationally renowned as the home of the famous Dulle Griet ('Mad Meg') by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. For the locals living in Antwerp, the museum is above all a well-kept secret. At the same time, there is always amazement that so much beauty could be brought together in one place. Who built this collection? The museum is housed in a historic building which recalls two individuals, Henri tte van den Bergh (1838-1920) and Fritz Mayer van den Bergh (1858-1901). The entire collection was assembled by Fritz, a man with a keen interest in the Medieval Renaissance periods. Following Fritz's early and unexpected death on 4 May 1901, it was his mother, Henri tte van den Bergh, who had the museum built to house his art collection. By doing so, she preserved this exceptional collection and at the same time succeeded in keeping alive a memorial to her son. The museum opened its doors in 1904. This book offers an insight into the history of the museum and its founders. It is based on in-depth research carried out in the archive of Museum Mayer van den Bergh, which among other things contains the rich correspondence between Fritz and Henri tte as well as an extensive photo collection. Over four chapters, the book explores the personalities behind the collection, their social background and networks, their interests and their modus operandi. More than anything else, this is the story of Henri tte van den Bergh, the founder of the museum, who died one hundred years ago. With her visionary projects, she proved herself not only to be a forceful personality, but also someone with a forward-looking organisational talent and an entrepreneur with an exceptional mission - and all in a period when the involvement of women in public life was anything but the norm.
THUIS IN EEN MUSEUM Het verhaal van Henri tte en Fritz Mayer van den Bergh
, Hannibal Publishing, 2021 HB, 240 x 170 mm, 240 pagina's, NL edition. ISBN 9789463887618.
Het Museum Mayer van den Bergh in Antwerpen is een huis vol kunst. Kunst die verwondert, intrigeert, beroert. Het museum is vandaag internationaal bekend als de thuishaven van de befaamde Dulle Griet van Pieter Bruegel de Oude. Voor Antwerpenaren is het museum vooral een goed bewaard geheim. Tegelijkertijd is er altijd de verbazing over hoe zoveel moois op n plek kon worden samengebracht. Wie heeft dit verzameld? Het museum is een monument dat herinnert aan twee personen, Henri tte van den Bergh (1838-1920) en Fritz Mayer van den Bergh (1858-1901). De gehele collectie werd bijeengebracht door Fritz, een man met een uitgesproken belangstelling voor de middeleeuwen en de renaissance. Na het vroegtijdige en onverwachte overlijden van Fritz op 4 mei 1901 was het zijn moeder, Henri tte van den Bergh, die het museum voor zijn kunstwerken liet bouwen. Daarmee bewaarde zij deze uitzonderlijke collectie en slaagde ze er tegelijk in de herinnering aan haar zoon levendig te houden. Het museum opende zijn deuren in 1904. Dit boek biedt een inkijk in de geschiedenis van het museum en zijn stichters. Het is gebaseerd op diepgaand onderzoek in het archief van het Museum Mayer van den Bergh, dat onder meer de rijke correspondentie van Fritz en Henri tte en een uitgebreide fotocollectie bevat. In vier hoofdstukken wordt ingegaan op de persoonlijkheden achter de verzameling, hun sociale achtergrond en netwerk, hun interesses en hun modus operandi. Bovenal is dit het verhaal van Henri tte van den Bergh, die honderd jaar geleden overleed. Met haar visionaire projecten toonde de stichtster van het museum zich niet alleen als een wilskrachtige persoonlijkheid, maar ook als een toekomstgericht organisatietalent en een onderneemster met een uitzonderlijke missie - en dat in een periode waarin de inmenging van vrouwen in de publieke sfeer helemaal niet vanzelfsprekend was.
