Laeken Cemetery

Laeken Cemetery

The Laeken Cemetery (French: "Cimetière de Laeken", Dutch: "Begraafplaats van Laken"), located in Laeken in the northern part of Brussels, is one of major cemeteries in Belgium.

The cemetery houses very fine examples of nineteenth-century funerary art and also features an original bronze cast of Auguste Rodin's "Thinker", purchased in 1927 by the antiquarian and art collector Jef Dillen to use as his own memorial. Next to the entrance, there is a small museum dedicated to the sculptor Ernest Salu (1845-1923) and his successors. Many of the monuments that embellish the cemetery are products of the Salu workshop.

Personalities buried here include:
*Fernand Khnopff, painter
*Maria Malibran, opera singer
*Louis-Joseph Seutin, surgeon

See also

*List of famous cemeteries


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