Michel Draguet studied Art History at Université libre de Bruxelles from 1983 to 1987. Michel Draguet is a member of the class of Arts of the Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium, elected on 6 January 2005. Nevertheless, Michel Draguet got a positive evaluation in April 2017 and started a new six years mandate running until 2023.

Defending federal art collections against dismantling, Michel Draguet was at the core of a violent debate.

īetween August 2010 and February 2014, Michel Draguet was also designated by the Minister in Charge of Federal Science Policy as Acting Director of the Royal Museums of Art and History. Michel Draguet joined the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in May 2005 from his position of Professor of Art History of the 19th and the 20th Centuries at Université libre de Bruxelles where he has been serving since 1990. In 2017, The Royal Fine Arts Museum of Belgium is the leading cultural institution in Belgium with 649.337 visitors. Since 2016, the institution rebuilt its position. įollowing the bombing attack in Brussels in March 2016, the museum lost 40% of its attendance. In 2015, with 767.355 visitors, The Royal Fine Arts Museum of Belgium was considered as the 82nd museum in the world (Top 100 Art Museum Attendance). Michel Draguet oversaw the Museum of Oldmasters, the Fin-de-siècle Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Magritte Museum and two private artistic houses: the Antoine Wiertz Workplace and the Meunier House. Draguet is a member of the board of the federal administration for science: the Belgian Science Policy Office ( BELSPO). Michel Draguet (born 23 January 1964) is a Belgian art historian, professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles, and the director and CEO of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium since May 2005. Along with paintings, sculptures, and photographs closely related to the houses, plans and models convey the correlation between art and life as well as the kind of harmony of the arts expressed in Richard Wagner’s historical concept of the total work of art.Art Historian, Lecturer of History of Modern Art at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Chief Curator of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium About twenty examples bring to life the fascination that these artistic fantasies hold for art lovers, including both existing projects and some which, although they have been lost, were of unique importance in their day and still retain their charisma. Starting with the Villa Stuck in Munich-the aesthetic, conceptual cosmos and life’s work of the aristocratic artist Franz von Stuck-this unique volume integrates the artist’s house as a category into the international context and is the first to assign these buildings the status of major works. The Artist's Residence as a Total Work of ArtĪs treasure troves of creativity, the homes of artists reflect the intellectual worlds of their creators.

Fernand Khnopff by Michel Draguet