{"id":47993,"date":"2021-02-26T15:45:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T15:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/xxiii-tout-art-aspire-a-la-condition-de-musique\/"},"modified":"2021-02-26T15:45:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T15:45:13","slug":"xxiii-tout-art-aspire-a-la-condition-de-musique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/xxiii-tout-art-aspire-a-la-condition-de-musique\/","title":{"rendered":"XXIII  Tout art aspire \u00e0 la condition de musique"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&lt;&lt; XXII   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/xxii-lions-club-aarschot\/\">Lions club Aarschot<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4f1677\"><strong>&#8220;Tout art aspire \u00e0 la condition de musique&#8221; <\/strong>&#8211; Walter Pater<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"582\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20-jaar-ajk-19-05-1978-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20-jaar-ajk-19-05-1978-5.jpg 602w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20-jaar-ajk-19-05-1978-5-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20-jaar-ajk-19-05-1978-5-508x491.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4f1677\"><strong>choirboy Pieter <\/strong>(photo: 1979)  &#8211; Aarschot Youth Choir under the direction of Rev. Frans Breugelmans  \u201cMy father encouraged me to make music, read or play outside instead of watching TV. \u2018Turn off that greasy television\u2019, he would repeat.\u201d &#8211; Pieter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Aarschots Jeugdkoor : Acceptit Jesus Calicem | olv E.H. Frans Breugelmans . 1979\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ztl7_vbzmk8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4f1677\"><strong>Accepit Jesus Calicem &#8211; by the Aarschot composer Arthur Meulemans (1884-1966) &#8211; his brother Herman was the music teacher of Frie&#8217;s aunts.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"798\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-3-798x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-3-798x1024.jpeg 798w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-3-234x300.jpeg 234w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-3-768x986.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-3-1197x1536.jpeg 1197w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-3-1596x2048.jpeg 1596w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-3-973x1249.jpeg 973w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-3-508x652.jpeg 508w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-3-scaled.jpeg 1994w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4f1677\"><strong>Cantor de coral<\/strong> &#8211; estudo, 2023 Antonio Ob\u00e0 &#8211; oil on canvas &#8211; Pinault Collection<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"553\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-2.png 730w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-2-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-2-508x385.png 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4f1677\">(1977)  With this radio Frie follows the news and the review of the domestic press every day. The transistor stands on a bookshelf next to his armchair. When the batteries are flat, Pieter has to fetch new ones from Fons Lavaerts in the Diestsestraat. But Pieter can no longer bear to look at and listen to the wretched little radio. On his way home from the Bekaf school he passes the TV and audio shop \u201cbaa den Howazegems\u201d (Huysegems, on the corner of the Gasthuisstraat and the Bogaardenlaan), where a magnificent installation for 2,500 Belgian francs stands in the window. Pieter wants to give it to Godfried as a present. For that budget he picks banknotes from Mia&#8217;s wallet. Once the 2,500 francs have been scraped together, he nervously goes to buy the smart radio as a gift for his father. When Pieter wants to pay the price, Mr Huysegems explains, touched, that the installation costs 25,000 francs and asks who his father is. The shop also sells music cassettes, and Mr Huysegems suggests choosing a few of those as a gift for the notary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LE CONCERT DE LA LOGE CD HAYDN-LA POULE\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VEbH1z3ybmc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4f1677\">Frie is amazed and happy with the Haydn \u201cParis\u201d symphonies and Beethoven&#8217;s 5th. \u201cHow did you come by these? We will keep them to listen to carefully together when we are in Champtercier.\u201d &#8211; Frie But with that, the miserable radio is still standing there. Pieter turns the knob of the station selector all the way round until it breaks. Even so, Frie manages to find his station BRT 1 again. So then, pull a few wires out of the inner workings and let a little Dreft washing-up liquid run into them. Now the radio is definitively broken. Frie buys a new set, which is even smaller and whose sound is even worse than the old Grundig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/godfried-dscf6562-1k9-1024x723.jpeg\" alt=\"Deze afbeelding heeft een leeg alt-attribuut; de bestandsnaam is godfried-dscf6562-1k9-1024x723.jpeg\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4f1677\">I<strong>n the piano bench rest mostly \u201cBelle \u00c9poque\u201d (1870-1914) scores. Once played by Frie&#8217;s mother and aunts, then by Mia and Pieter.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"763\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-1-763x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-1-763x1024.png 763w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-1-223x300.png 223w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-1-768x1031.png 768w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-1-1144x1536.png 1144w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-1-973x1306.png 973w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-1-508x682.png 508w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-1.png 1418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 763px) 100vw, 763px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4f1677\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"360\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 640 \/ 360;\" width=\"640\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/All-Creatures-Great-And-Small-All-Intros-1978-1990-also-2020.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4f1677\">Godfried follows the British series \u201cAll Creatures Great &amp; Small\u201d  It is about a young vet who starts work in the countryside.  He discovers that the profession of veterinarian in practice is very different from what he imagined during his studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/godfried-dscf6544-1k9-1024x700.jpeg\" alt=\"Deze afbeelding heeft een leeg alt-attribuut; de bestandsnaam is godfried-dscf6544-1k9-1024x700.jpeg\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-10 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4f1677\">Frie and Pieter give a soulful Christmas performance.  \u201cIn the old days we didn&#8217;t know any greasy television. We played a musical instrument, sang, played cards or a parlour game, and we were much happier!\u201d &#8211; Frie  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/godfried-dscf6569-1k9-1024x788.jpeg\" alt=\"Deze afbeelding heeft een leeg alt-attribuut; de bestandsnaam is godfried-dscf6569-1k9-1024x788.jpeg\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-11 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4f1677\"><strong>Godfried organises brass band concerts:<\/strong>  twice he holds tremendous parties at his home in the garden with the Wolfsdonk fanfare. (photo: 1981)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-12 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4f1677\">Frie also loves Viennese waltzes and praises the Wiener Philharmoniker without female musicians: \u201cThat all comes from their fuss, with less concentration on the music as a result.  And then, a woman with a violin or a drum, that&#8217;s no sight at all.\u201d<em> <\/em>&#8211; Frie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/godfried-dscf6554-1k9-683x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Deze afbeelding heeft een leeg alt-attribuut; de bestandsnaam is godfried-dscf6554-1k9-683x1024.jpeg\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-13 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4f1677\"><strong>Roxane, Ilse, Pieter  <\/strong>(foto: Wolfsdonk, 2000)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-normal-font-size wp-elements-14 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4f1677\"><strong>&#8220;If music be the food of love, play on.&#8221; <\/strong>&#8211; Shakespeare<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"927\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/godfried-dscf6557-1k9-e1649096207330-927x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/godfried-dscf6557-1k9-e1649096207330-927x1024.jpeg 927w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/godfried-dscf6557-1k9-e1649096207330-272x300.jpeg 272w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/godfried-dscf6557-1k9-e1649096207330-768x848.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/godfried-dscf6557-1k9-e1649096207330-508x561.jpeg 508w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/godfried-dscf6557-1k9-e1649096207330.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 927px) 100vw, 927px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-15 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4f1677\"><strong>Witty and generous: <\/strong> a zither solo for Roger Blanpain (1932-2016), lecturer, dean of KU Leuven. (photo: 2001)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-16 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4f1677\">Professor Blanpain urges Pieter not to work for the money, but for something greater.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"758\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1061-1-1024x758.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1061-1-1024x758.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1061-1-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1061-1-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1061-1-1536x1137.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1061-1-2048x1515.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1061-1-973x720.jpg 973w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1061-1-508x376.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-17 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4f1677\"><strong>Lina, the later Mrs Blanpain, and Frie <\/strong> (photo: Wolfsdonk)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"866\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-30-e1698491634240-1024x866.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-30-e1698491634240-1024x866.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-30-e1698491634240-300x254.png 300w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-30-e1698491634240-768x650.png 768w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-30-e1698491634240-508x430.png 508w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-30-e1698491634240-973x823.png 973w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-30-e1698491634240.png 1136w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-18 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4f1677\">Wherever Pieter stays, he sets up a keyboard to practise a little.  Here in his deco shop in the Bogaardenlaan in Aarschot (1997-2003)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"902\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-29-1024x902.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-29-1024x902.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-29-300x264.png 300w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-29-768x677.png 768w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-29-1536x1354.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-29-973x857.png 973w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-29-508x448.png 508w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-29.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-19 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4f1677\">(Brussels, 1992)  Pieter meets the musicologist Bertrand Br\u00e9bois, who introduces him to the de Wouters d&#8217;Oplinter family, owners of the music shop \u2018La bo\u00eete \u00e0 musique\u2019 at the Coudenberg. Bertrand teaches his friend to pick out the better interpretations and helps Pieter build up a collection of CDs. In turn, Pieter teaches his father to distinguish choice recordings.  (photo: Hamburg 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-116-1024x680.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-116-1024x680.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-116-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-116-768x510.png 768w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-116-1536x1020.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-116-2048x1360.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-116-973x646.png 973w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-116-508x337.png 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-20 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4f1677\"><strong>In the spotlight in Wolfsdonk with Els Bruyninckx <\/strong> (photo: 2018)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-21 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4f1677\">In \u2018zaal Abt\u2019, where Frie gave legal advice to the residents of Wolfsdonk, Pieter performed several times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-21-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-21-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-21-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-21-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-21-973x730.png 973w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-21-508x381.png 508w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-21.png 1220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-22 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4f1677\">photo: Hamburg 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-23 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4f1677\">So he can do it after all.  The question remains: why not always like this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">XXIV   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/xxiv-dieu-est-un-fumeur-de-havanes\/\">Dieu est un fumeur de Havanes<\/a> &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1946\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-16-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-16-scaled.jpeg 1946w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-16-228x300.jpeg 228w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-16-778x1024.jpeg 778w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-16-768x1010.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-16-1167x1536.jpeg 1167w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-16-1557x2048.jpeg 1557w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-16-973x1280.jpeg 973w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-16-508x668.jpeg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1946px) 100vw, 1946px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-24 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#4f1677\"><strong>Singing Children<\/strong> &#8211; Bronze &#8211; Illegibly signed, inscribed: June 1906\u201d On the base: \u201cOh du froeliche\u201d  The sculpture was donated to the school in 1906.  Later it stood on the mantelpiece in the chapter house.  The figure of the boy bears bullet impacts on the shoulder and head.  From April 1945 to October 1946 the Red Army occupied the abbey.  When it withdrew, it left a picture of devastation.  According to eyewitnesses, the sculpture is said to have served the soldiers as a target. 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