Constantin Meunier
Born 12 April 1831
Died 4 April 1905
Active: 1904 - 1905
Country of birth and death: Belgium
Sculptor, painter
Born in Etterbeek, Brussels. He first exhibited at the Brussels Salon in 1851. He worked mainly as a painter from the mid-1850s to 1885. By that date he was receiving government commissions and had been appointed professor at the Louvain Academy of Fine Arts. At his death he left unfinished two important projects, a Monument to Emile Zola and a Monument to Labour in Laeken. He was a freemason, and a member of the lodge Les Amis Philanthropes of the Grand Orient of Belgium in Brussels.
Works
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Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, 1861-1951
1914
Exhibited once, one work
Institutional and Business Connections
Member of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
Honorary member
Represented by La Maison Moderne
Sources
Catalogue of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition 1904
1904
Cat. Nos. 71, 72, 110, pp. 8, 10
Citing this record
'Constantin Meunier', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib5_1209585354, accessed 25 Mar 2023]
