Magritte's defiance of common sense set in stone...
Newsflash!!! (For all Magritte fans this is pretty major! ) 2500 m 2 . 5 levels. World's largest collection of the 20th century's most important Belgian painter. The world reference centre for knowledge about Magritte. 650,000 visitors expected yearly. The Altenloh Ho tel Brussels. Front of Museum covered with a hoarding during the restoration. Impressive figures. Impressive artist. René François Ghislain Magritte (1898-1967) On June the 2nd 2009, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, in collaboration with the Magritte Foundation and the support of GDF SUEZ and the Régie des Bâtiments, will proudly open (and rightly so) the “ Musée Magritte Museum ”. Rene Magritte was born on the 21st of November 1898, in Lessine Belgium. Dying, in Brussels, 69 years later: on the 15th of August 1967, victim of pancreatic cancer. Magritte considered his work to be an attack on society's preconceived ideas, a permanent revolt against the banal -the common place. Below a sprinkling o...