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Georges Hulin de Loo
chairman from 1913 until 1945

After his study years in Ghent, Berlin, Strasbourg and Paris, Georges Hulin worked at the faculties of Arts and Philosophy, Sciences and Law at Ghent University and the Higher Institute for Art History in the same city, which was founded in 1920. An expert on old Flemish art, he enjoyed an international renown, e.g. for the critical catalogue he compiled of the groundbreaking Exposition des primitifs flamands et d’art ancien in Bruges in 1902.

His expertise and network was of golden value to the association The Friends of the Museum, of which he was a founding member and, between 1913 and 1945, its president, succeeding Fernand Scribe. During this period, Hulin (after c. 1900 ‘Hulin de Loo’) played a crucial role in the acquisition by the Friends of a large number of collection pieces, including Christ Carrying the Cross by Hieronymus Bosch (Room B). An active private collector, he donated paintings from his own collection, including Puccio di Simone and Théodore Rousseau (Room S). The latter artist’s name indicates that he was not exclusively interested in ancient art; the works by Maurice de Vlaminck, Tsugouharu Leonard Foujita, Moïse Kisling, Amedeo Modigliani and

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