Level -2 features the work of the Social Realists, whose paintings and sculptures championed the working class. One of the early figures in this movement was Charles de Groux (1825-70), whose paternalistic Poor People's Pew and Benediction are typical of his work. Much more talented was Constantin Meunier (1831-1905), who is well represented here by two particularly forceful bronzes, Firedamap and the Iron worker . Look out also for the stirring canvases of their mutual friend Eugene Laermans (1864-1940), who shifted from the Realist style into more Expressionistic works, as in the overtly political Red Flag and The Corpse , a sorrowful vision that is perhaps Lermans' most successful painting.

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