The Paul Delvaux Museum has been closed for several months, but this intriguing art museum reopens on 2 April 2022.
Located in the little beach town of Sint-Idesbald, the museum building stands next to a tiny whitewashed fisherman’s cottage where Delvaux spent many years of his life.
Born near Liège in 1897, Delvaux originally studied architecture in Brussels, but later switched to painting. He developed a mysterious Surrealist style that featured classical architecture, naked women with huge sad eyes and empty train stations.
By the 1930s, he was exhibiting his disturbing works in European and American galleries next to works by Salvador Dali, Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte.
The Delvaux Museum owns the world’s largest collection of Delvaux paintings. It is a quiet, enigmatic place furnished with wooden benches from old Belgian trains. The rooms are bathed in a mysterious light that adds to the enigmatic mood.
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