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Society founded in 2002 for the study and preservation of sculpture from the Low Countries

 

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Activities & Membership

Membership entails unrestricted access to the interactive Website informing about many aspects of the study, promotion and preservation of sculpture.

Furthermore, the Society organises:

  • Lectures by sculpture specialists in a major city, with free attendance for members
  • Visits to museums, exhibitions, churches and/or other notable collections of sculpture, principally in the Low Countries
  • Study tours to visit sculpture in a part of the Low Countries or to a notable foreign "sculpture destination"
  • International conferences

2009 programme to include

  • 17 January, 2.30-4.30 pm, Study visit of the French Bronzes exhibition, Musée du Louvre, Paris, led by the exhibition curator Geneviève Bresc-Bautier.
     

  • 11 March, 9.45 am-6 pm, Study day on marbles in Southern Belgium, led by geologist Dr Francis Tourneur. Registration below via the conference registration.
     

  • 13-15 March, International Conference in Brussels, Seventeenth-century sculpture of the Low Countries from Hendrick de Keyser to Jean Del Cour.
     

     

  • 2-5 September, Annual Study Tour in Berlin and Potsdam: A Study Tour around some of the principal collections of historic sculpture following the reopening of the Bode-Museum
    2 September: Oranienburg/Charlottenburg
    3 September: sculptors’ drawings and 19th-century sculpture
    4 September: Bode-Museum
    5 September: Potsdam-Sanssouci

    Please note that days can be booked individually.
     

     

     

  • 26 November, Study day at Utrecht and surroundings, 10am-4pm, visiting the castle of Sypesteyn and the cathedral of Utrecht. Free for members, please register by sending an email.
     

  • 7-8 December, International Conference at Namur, Stone-Paper-Chisels. Romanesque Architecture and Sculpture (Meuse-Scheldt region).
     

  • 9 December, Study day at Tournai, on the same theme as the conference (registration opening soon).

     

     

Please note that we would be delighted to take on any special requests. In particular, we would much value the offer of help of any member who has priviledged access to sculpture that is worth a visit. Similarly, we will gladly organise an audience for any foreign members who are touring the Low Countries and who would like to give a lecture.

Conversely, if circumstances beyond our control impose us to alter this programme, we exclude any liability whatsoever for any direct or consequential loss arising from the reliance on this programme.

 

MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES

 

Membership runs per calendar year.

 

Single Ordinary Membership, online communications

Annual fee of 15 Euro payable by credit card (VISA or Mastercard/Eurocard) or by bank transfer to our Belgian account.

 

Double Ordinary Membership, online communications

For couples. Annual fee of 25 Euro payable by credit card (VISA or Mastercard/Eurocard) or by bank transfer to our Belgian account.

 

Single Ordinary Membership, postal communications

Annual fee of 30 Euro payable by credit card (VISA or Mastercard/Eurocard) or by bank transfer to our Belgian account.

 

Double Ordinary Membership, postal communications

For couples at the same address. Annual fee of 40 Euro payable by credit card (VISA or Mastercard/Eurocard) or by bank transfer to our Belgian account.

 

Supporting / Institutional Membership

Same privileges as Ordinary Membership (online or postal communications), plus acknowledgement on our ‘aims and objectives’ page.

Up to five named people may participate in the activities (including the free lectures)

Annual contribution of at least 150 Euro payable by credit card (VISA or Mastercard/Eurocard) or by bank transfer to our Belgian account

Alternative donations in kind are welcome by negotiation.

 

Sponsorship

Extra privileges include acknowledgement at all our activities and on all our publications, including our home page where we will place a link to your own website. Further privileges will be tailored to your own needs, aspirations and circumstances. Please send us your application and we will personally get in touch with you.

To register as a member please click below:

2002 programme:

INAUGURAL LECTURES

  • 7 July, Tea in the Gamble Room of the Victoria & Albert Museum 3pm, Lecture in the Lecture Theatre 3.45pm: London Inaugural Lecture by Professor Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Princeton University, on Sculptors from the Low Countries: The Problem of Transnational History. The Society was formally launched and the speaker introduced by HE Baron Bentinck van Schoonheten, Royal Netherlands Ambassador and HE Baron de Gruben, Royal Belgian Ambassador.
     

  • 30 November, Reception and visit of the Palace and the historic collection of portraits busts at 2.30 pm, Lecture at 3.30 pm: Brussels Inaugural Lecture by Guilhem Scherf, conservateur en chef at the Musée du Louvre, on Le voyage à Paris vers 1781 du sculpteur anversois Joseph Camberlain,  Palace of the Académie royale, 1, rue Ducale. The Society was formally launched and the speaker introduced by Mr Marc Villain, Cultural Counsellor of the French Embassy.

INAUGURAL TOUR

and associated events

  • 3 July: Discussion Tour in Brussels in the  main sculpture collections.

  • 3 July 6pm: Lecture in Brussels by Léon Lock on Abbeys in the Low Countries as Patrons of Sculpture.

  • 4 - 7 July: Inaugural Tour in Belgium and London
    4 & 5 July: Discussion Tour of medieval to nineteenth-century sculpture in churches and abbeys in the trangle Lier-Hasselt-Leuven (followed by travel to London)
    6 & 7 July: Discussion Tour in the Victoria & Albert Museum on aspects of Low Countries sculpture, of the exhibition Earth & Fire:  Italian Terracottas from Donatello to Canova, Victoria & Albert Museum and of Westminster Abbey. 

  • 7 July: Inaugural Tour Dinner, London.

  • 8 July: Discussion Tour in London of a selection of City churches and of the exhibition Master Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge at the Daniel Katz Gallery

AUTUMN PROGRAMME

  • 22 November: Lecture in Antwerp by Eymert-Jan Goossens on Artus Quellin en het Koninklijk Paleis te Amsterdam at the Rubenianum

  • 23 November: Discussion Tour at the château de Modave: seventeenth-century sculpture, stucco and architecture

  • 30 November: Discussion Tour in Brussels of the exhibition Eclatants Eclats, Halles Saint-Géry

  • 1 December: Discussion Tour in Brussels: The dawn of neo-classicism in sculpture, decoration and architecture

2003 programme:

  • 16 March 2003, 2 pm - 5 pm, at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Introductory Lecture on Willem van Tetrode (in Dutch) by Dr Frits Scholten, Curator of Sculpture at the Rijksmuseum and Exhibition Curator, followed by drinks and a visit of the exhibition Gespierd brons: Beelden van Willem van Tetrode.

  • 20 to 22 September 2003: Annual Study Tour in the Niederrhein from Nijmegen to Köln on the theme of "Sculpture and Devotion in the Rhineland".

  • 22 September, 2 pm-5.30 pm Half-day conference in Köln

    • on "Sculpture and Devotion in the Rhineland", organised together with and at the Schnütgen Museum.

  • 5 October, 11 am-12 noon, Lecture in Antwerpen, by Dr Emile van Binnebeke, Independent Art Historian, on In bocca al lupo ! Nederlandse kunstenaars in Italië. Over reizen, opleiding, geloof en liefde, at and in collaboration with the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten van Antwerpen.

  • evening 10 October, 7 pm-9pm, Lecture in Brussels, by Andrew Naylor, Independent Sculpture Conservator, on Common Sense Conservation: The example of the Waterloo Memorial at Evere, at the British Embassy, 85, rue d'Arlon, by kind permission of the British Ambassador, HE Mr Gavin Hewitt.

  • 11 October 2003, Study visits in the Namurois on the theme of "Belgian red and black marbles and their extraction", visiting marble quarries and ending the day at the Musée national du Marbre, Rance

  • 26 October, Study Visit of the Rothschild Collection, Waddesdon Manor, The National Trust, on the theme of "European sculpture, sculptural ornament and their design"

  • 29 October, 5.20 pm - 8.30 pm, Lecture in London, by Dr Paul Williamson FSA, Head of the Sculpture, Metalwork, Ceramics and Glass Department, Victoria & Albert Museum, on Gothic sculpture and medieval craft practice, at the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, followed by a reception kindly offered by the Belgian ambassador and his wife, HE Baron & Baroness Thierry de Gruben, at their residence.

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2004 programme

  • 25 April, 2 pm - 5 pm, Lecture at Scheveningen by Jan Teeuwisse on Wezelaar Statuaire and visit of his exhibition at the Museum Beelden aan Zee

  • 8 to Monday 10 May, Annual Study Tour from Leeuwarden to Groningen on the theme of Discovering hidden historic sculpture in Friesland and Groningen, including major works by Rombout Verhulst and the recently conserved studio content of Pier Pander

  • 12 June, 10.30 am - 12 noon, Lecture in Antwerp by Catherine Van Herck on Conservatie en restauratie van beelden and visit of her workshop

  • 2 and 3 July, 10 am - 5 pm, International conference in London, at the Wallace Collection, on Sculpted Portraits of Rulers and Royalty

  • 10 October, 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm : Study visit in Brussels led by Andrew Naylor on conservation work in progress on the Waterloo Memorial, Cimetière de Bruxelles at Evere (Brussels).

  • 28 to Saturday 30 October: Study visits in Belgian stone quarries led by Prof. Dr. Roger Neys

  • 11 December, 11 am - 1 pm: Study visit at Maarssen of the exhibition Beeldhouwkunst in ander perspectief at Pygmalion Beeldende Kunst.

2005 programme

  • Saturday 5 March, International conference at the château de Modave, Stucco and plaster sculpture in Europe in the 17th century : Inspiration, creation, production, reproduction

  • followed by a study day in nearby country houses on Sunday 6 March

  • Monday 25 April at 6.30 pm, Lecture in London by Carlo Milano on Giusto Le Cort, a Fleming in Venice, at the Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1 (Bloomsbury, close to Russell Square)

  • Tuesday 26 April, 10.30 am - 5 pm, Study day in Oxford on Sculpture and Drawings in College Collections. The programme provisionally includes All Souls College's Codrington Library, Worcester College Library, Queen's College Chapel, Trinity College Chapel and University College (Shelley Memorial)

  • Saturday 28 May, 10.30 am - 12 noon, Lecture in Brussels by Werner Adriaenssens, on Philippe Wolfers et la sculpture chryséléphantine en Belgique. This lecture will be held in an important Art Nouveau building that is never open to the public

  • Saturday 11 June, 10 am - 5 pm, Study day in Breda at the Grote Kerk (newly conserved tomb monuments of the 16th century), the 16th-century castle of the Nassau (open by special permission, as now in use as barracks) and the Breda's Museum, to see some original terracotta fragments from the castle. We will be led by some of those involved in the recent conservation campaign of the Grote Kerk

  • Thursday 8 to Saturday 10 September, Study trip to Genova.

2006 programme

  • International Conference, 10-11 March, Mechelen, on "Mechelen and early 19th-century sculpture: between tradition and innovation"

  • Saturday 10 June, Study visits in the Namurois on the theme of "Belgian coloured marbles and their extraction", visiting marble quarries, the abbey of Floreffe and ending the day at the Musée du Marbre, Rance

  • Monday 17 to Thursday 20 July, Annual Study Tour to the Berry and Poitou (central France) mainly to discover or rediscover romanesque and gothic treasures in well-known places as well as in less accessible ones between Poitiers and Bourges

  • Saturday 23 September, Study Day at Anglesey Abbey (The National Trust), Cambridge

  • Sunday 24 September, Study Day at Trinity College Library, Cambridge, and Burghley House, Stamford

  • Sunday 22 October, Study Day at the royal palace of Het Loo, Apeldoorn

  • Wednesday 4 December, Visit of the Victoria and Albert Museum's sculpture conservation workshops and the future Renaissance Gallery

  • Monday 11 and Tuesday 12 December, International Conference at Namur, on architecture and sculpture 1750-1850, “around Bayar / Le Roy”, to coincide with the current exhibitions. Organised by the Musée d’Art ancien du Namurois in collaboration with the association Pierres et Marbres de Wallonie and our Society

2007 programme

  • Saturday 12 May, Study day at Liège to view the main parts of the otherwise inaccessible Palais des Princes-Evêques and other buildings, principally of the 18th century

  • Saturday 26 May, Study day at the churches of Wouw,  Zundert and Bergen-op-Zoom

  • Wednesday 4 July, 6.30 pm for 7 pm, Lecture in London, by Pier Terwen, on Pier Pander (1864-1919) and the use of plaster in the making of his sculpures, from Rome to Leeuwarden, at Sir John Soane's Museum

  • Monday 10 to Wednesday 12 September, Annual Study Trip to Dresden

  • Saturday 17 November, Study day at Liège, on the theme of Jean Del Cour (1631-1707) and baroque sculpture and sculptors' drawings

2008 programme

  • 7-9 March, International Conference, Renaissance Sculpture of the Low Countries  from the Century of Jacques Du Broeucq, held at Mons. Programme.

  • 10 March, Study day in the Hainaut on Renaissance sculpture.

  • 19 March, Study afternoon in Antwerpen, to visit the conservation workshops of the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Hogeschool Antwerpen, led by Carolien van der Star.

  • 26 September, Study day at Den Haag: Grote Kerk with its spectacular tomb monuments, Vredespaleis looking especially at the recently conserved sculpture and the Museum Beelden aan Zee.

  • 7 October, 7 pm, Lecture in London, by Lady Young, on her father's portrait sculpture of kings and rulers: Oscar Nemon (1906-1985) between Belgium and England.

  • 24-27 October, Annual Study Tour in Antwerpen.

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