Groeningemuseum
Bruges city museum holding six centuries of Flemish and Belgian painting, from Van Eyck onwards.
The Groeningemuseum is the principal fine-art collection of the city of Bruges, part of the municipal Musea Brugge network. Its holdings trace six centuries of painting in the Low Countries, beginning with the Flemish Primitives of the fifteenth century and continuing through Renaissance and Baroque work, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century neoclassicism, Belgian symbolism and modernism. The collection grew from the holdings of the Bruges Academy of Fine Arts, which were assembled from the late eighteenth century onwards and gradually transferred into public municipal ownership.
The present building stands on the Dijver, on the site of the former Eekhout Abbey, and was designed by the Bruges architect Joseph Viérin in a restrained brick idiom that echoes local traditional forms. It opened in 1930 and has been extended and rearranged several times since. Works by Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, Gerard David, Hieronymus Bosch, Hugo van der Goes, Jan Provoost, Fernand Khnopff, James Ensor and René Magritte are among those displayed. The neighbouring Arentshuis forms part of the same museum site.
Highlights
- Jan van Eyck's Madonna with Canon Joris van der Paele, painted in Bruges
- Gerard David's Judgement of Cambyses diptych of 1498
- Flemish Primitives shown alongside later Belgian symbolist painting
- Housed in a 1930 brick building by Joseph Viérin on the Dijver canal
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