Horta Museum

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Horta Museum in Brussels is not a traditional museum, in the true sense - a building where objects exposed to attract attention. Horta Museum is a little backwards: it is the museum building itself. Horta Museum was actually the house that Victor Horta built it for himself in late 1890. It is an excellent example of architectural style that made Horta one of Belgium's most respected architects.

Art Nouveau style was very popular in Europe, and especially in Brussels between 1893 and 1918. Its characteristics are the use of industrial materials such as iron and steel on visible sides of buildings and furnishings inspired by nature and on building facades, decorative mosaics. Many of these features "can be found in building Horta Museum. In this house one can see the great innovations of Horta: the rooms are built around a central hall. The glass ceiling light enters the house and offers a lot more natural light than in building traditional houses from the late 19th century in Brussels and Belgium.

This style has many names depending on the country: Jungenstil Germanic countries, liberty style or modern style Modernist Estilo UK and Spain.

Victor Horta was born in 1861 in Ghent, Belgium. After studying in Paris, he settled in Brussels and continued to study at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1893 he built his first house in Art Nouveau Tassel family house, which still can be seen in the Rue Emile Janson Brussels / Emiel Jansonstraat at number six. Other important buildings followed: the 1894 Solvay House (Horta's masterpiece), 1895 La Maison du Peuple (the house where the socialists were meeting in Brussels and was demolished) and Van House Eetvelde, 1898 Horta House (the building which today is Find museum), Les Grands Magasins Innovation 1901 (destroyed by fire in 1967 when over 300 people died), 1903 Les Magasins Waucquez (now a museum).

Visit the Horta Museum, you will have the opportunity to learn more about life and work of Horta, who died in 1947. Besides the documents about his life, and you can see art objects created by Horta and other artists of the time in question.

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