Monument to Charles Buls
Name
Monument to Charles Buls
Address Grand Place
City/Neighborhood Brussels
Style(s)
Original use
Année 1898
Architect(s) and/or artist(s)
Remarkable elements
Address Grand Place
City/Neighborhood Brussels
Style(s)
- Art Nouveau
- Floral Art Nouveau
Original use
- Work of Art
Année 1898
Architect(s) and/or artist(s)
- Horta Victor
- Rousseau Victor
Remarkable elements
- Sculpture
How curious to find Art Nouveau on the Grand Place in Brussels! and yet...
This stele was dedicated to Charles Buls, mayor of Brussels from 1881 to 1899, designed by Victor Horta in 1898/99, and made by sculptor Victor Rousseau.
A group of grateful Belgian artists was behind the subscription-funded project.
The monument pays tribute to the architects of the 15th and 17th centuries, in the form of allegorical figures: light, the acacia, symbolic flower of the Freemasons and a woman in front of the town hall, an ode to architects.
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