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Final Model for the Georges Rodenbach Memorial (reduction), ca. 1899

  • patination, gypsum
  • 47.5 x 83.9 x 31.7 cm
  • Inv. 2009-E

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In memory of the French-speaking Ghent poet Georges Rodenbach, who died in 1898, George Minne designed a commemorative monument by order of the Société des Artistes et Ecrivains Français. The Rodenbach memorial initially bore the title Bruges-la-Morte, after the poet's novel of the same name. The final version can be found in the Great Beguinage in Ghent. The design shown here is a reduction of the plaster design from 1899, which is also in the possession of the MSK Gent (inv. 1982-M). It shows a reclining female figure who seems slowly to be rising above the earth in which she lies. The modesty and the simplified, purified language of form are in keeping with The Fountain with Kneeling Youths (inv. 1982-E).

Artist

George Minne RKD VIAF Wikidata
Ghent 1866 - Sint-Martens-Latem 1941
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Title Final Model for the Georges Rodenbach Memorial (reduction)
Date ca. 1899
Period 19th century
Medium and support patination AAT
Collection sculpture AAT
Object type gypsum AAT
Inventory number 2009-E
Acquisition credit purchase
Colaes, Mireille
Durbuy
2009
Current whereabouts Work on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2009-E
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/5826/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300189808 figures (representations) AAT
300055866 allegory (artistic device) AAT
Keywords Iconclass 31A242 head turned sideways Iconclass
31A2531 hand(s) bent towards the head Iconclass
31AA236 lying figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass
31F symbols and personifications of Death Iconclass
31F1 symbols of Death Iconclass
31FF23 Death as man - FF - Death as female Iconclass
41D27 drapery, draped garment, 'Gewandgebung' Iconclass
42E3 grave, tomb and other grave-forms and grave-markers Iconclass
42E36 other memorial structures Iconclass
51L51 Resurrection; 'Ressurrettione' (Ripa) Iconclass
61B2(RODENBACH, Georges) historical person (RODENBACH, Georges) Iconclass
83(RODENBACH, Bruges la morte) (scenes from) specific works of literature (RODENBACH, Bruges la morte) Iconclass
School / Style Symbolism (artistic concept) AAT
George Minne en de kunst rond 1900 (Tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 18.09.1982 - 05.12.1982) / Robert Hoozee, Monique Tahon-Vanroose, Albert Alhadeff. - Brussel : Gemeentekrediet, 1982 (p. 170, cat. 104 (ill.))
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