Magritte Museum from the collection of the artist's widow, Georgette Magritte, and from Irene Hamoir Scutenaire, who was his primary collector. Additionally, the museum includes Magritte's experiments with photography from 1920 on and the short surrealist films he made from 1956 on. Magritte Museum The Magritte Museum (, ) is a museum in Brussels, Belgium dedicated to the work of the Belgian surrealist artist, René Magritte. It is one of the constituent museums of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. The Magritte Museum opened to the public on 30 May 2009 in Brussels. Housed in the five-level neo-classical Hotel Altenloh,
A Young Artist (Ditlev Blunck) Examining a Sketch in a Mirror A Young Artist (Ditlev Blunck) Examining a Sketch in a Mirror A young artist (Ditlev Blunck) considers a sketch in a mirror is a painting by Wilhelm Bendz from 1826; it is one of the series of Danish Golden Age portraits of artists. The painting shows young Ditlev Blunck taking a break to examine a sketch for a portrait of George Valtin Sonne painting his brother, engraver Carl Edvard Sonne, by holding it up in front of a mirror to see if the composition works. The painting was executed in 1826 at time when Wilhelm Bendz was preoccupied by artists'