Wiertz Museum

History

The Wiertz Museum, formerly the Antoine Wiertz Museum, is an art museum in Ixelles, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium, dedicated to the work of the romantic painter and sculptor Antoine Wiertz. It is one of the constituent museums of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.

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About Hendrik Conscience

Henri (Hendrik) Conscience was a Belgian author. He is considered the pioneer of Dutch-language literature in Flanders, writing at a time when Belgium was dominated by the French language among the upper classes, in literature and government. Conscience fought as a Belgian revolutionary in 1830 and was a notable writer in the Romanticist style popular in the early 19th century. He is best known for his romantic nationalist novel, The Lion of Flanders (1838), inspired by the victory of a Flemish peasant militia over French knights at the 1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs during the Franco-Flemish War.

From the Wikipedia article “Hendrik Conscience”, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Visiting

This is a house museum. Opening times, tickets and access change, so check the official website before you travel. Get directions.