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MUSEUM DHONDT-DHAENENS

In the middle of Flanders, international art stars shown in quick succession

Collectors:

Jules & Irma Dhondt-Dhaenens

Address:

Museumlaan 14

9831 Deurle

Belgium

Tel +32 9 2825123

info@museumdd.be

www.museumdd.be

Opening Hours:

Wed–Sun: 10am–5pm

The Flanders industrialist couple Jules and Irma Dhondt-Dhaenens began collecting art in the 1920s. Belgium was just as divided then as it is today, which is why the couple focused almost exclusively on Flemish artists from 1880 to 1950, including James Ensor and Frits Van den Berghe. Later the collector couple decided to have a museum built to house their collection. Not in Brussels or Ghent, but in the countryside at Deurle, a beautifully located village on the river Leie and close to the artist colony Sint-Martens-Latem. The bright white, flat-roofed modernistic structure was opened in 1968. Today the museum continues to sharpen its contemporary profile with around eight annual exhibitions devoted to such international artists as Thomas Hirschhorn, Karla Black, Wade Guyton, Julie Mehretu, Jessica Rankin, Ryan Gander, Thomas Zipp, Richard Aldrich, and Charline von Heyl.