The King Baudouin Foundation has launched a tailor-made philanthropic formula for the Fine Arts Museum of Ghent (MSK Gent), to enable Rodin’s work 'L’Âge d’airain' to remain on show at the museum. Together with the Foundation, the Fine Arts Museum has launched a fundraising campaign to raise the finance needed to purchase this masterpiece.
Twelve major 19th-century works, donated by Hanns von der Ohe and Renate Luck to the King Baudouin Foundation, are on display at the Suermondt-Ludwig Museum in Aachen. This is the first time that the King Baudouin Foundation has loaned such a large number of works on long-term loan to a foreign museum.
American violinist Charles Castleman has donated an exceptional 1707 Stradivarius to Myriad USA (the US entity of the King Baudouin Foundation) for the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel.
The King Baudouin Foundation facilitated the acquisition of an exceptional 16th century Brussels tapestry. A masterpiece depicting King Solomon and Bathsheba, acquired through the combined efforts of the City of Brussels, the Fondation Périer-D’Ieteren, De Wit vzw, and the King Baudouin Foundation.
Forty years of documentation relating to Ensor form the base of this exceptional collection. As an important source for research, its acquisition by the Orcona Fund and the fact that it has now been entrusted to the Mu.ZEE in Ostend, means that this body of information about Ensor can be kept in Belgium for everyone’s benefit.
