Pierre ALECHINSKY - Osnabrück Station in Jerusalem - Etching and aquatint

Etching : Process realized on a metal plate using a chemical (acid) process. The artist using etching is called an aquafortist.
Pierre Alechinsky : (1927-) is a Belgian artist, who lives and works in France since 1951. His work is related to "tachisme", abstract expressionism, and lyrical abstraction. In 1944 he attended the Ecole nationale supérieure d'Architecture et des Arts décoratifs de La Cambre in Brussels where he studied illustration techniques, printing and photography. In 1949 he joined Christian Dotremont, Karel Appel, Constant, Jan Nieuwenhuys and Asger Jorn to form the art group Cobra. In 1954 he had his first exhibition in Paris and started to become interested in oriental calligraphy. In 1955 he left for Japan with his wife. By 1960 he had exhibited in London, Bern and at the Venice Biennial, and then in Pittsburgh, New York, Amsterdam and Silkeborg as his international reputation grew. He worked with Walasse Ting and continued to be close to Christian Dotremont. He also spent time with André Breton. His international career continued throughout the seventies. His works are held in the collections of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, the Tate, London, the Museum Ludwig in Köln, the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Walker Art Center (The USA)
Societe Generale Collection (France)
FRAC Poitou-Charente (France)
FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (France)
The Bridgestone Museum of art Ishibashi Foundation (Japan)
Fundação Museu de Serralves (Portugal)
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Portugal)
Cantini Museum (France)
Deutsche Bank Art Collection (Germany)
Museum Abteiberg (Germany)
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (The USA)
The Gilbert Brownstone Foundation (France)
The Slaughterhouses - FRAC Midi Pyrénées (France)
Microcollection (Italy)
Marguerite and Aimé Maeght Foundation (France)
Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City IA (The USA)
Davis Art Museum, Wellesley College (The USA)
SMAK (Belgium)
FRAC Picardie (France)
FRAC Lower Normandy (France)
Carnegie Museum of art (The USA)
André and Bona Pieyre collection from Mandiargues
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark)
Essl Museum (Austria)
Artothèque, Pessac (France)
Limousin art library + FACLIM (France)
Dexia Art gallery (Belgium)
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MACBA) Barcelona (Spain)
Center Pompidou - National Museum of Modern Art (France)
ING Bank Art Collection (Netherlands)
Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (France)
Fundación Antonio Pérez. Diputación de Cuenca (Spain)
ACAPA (Artothèque Angoulême) (France)
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) (Spain)
Randers Kunstmuseum (Denmark)
Horsens Kunstmuseum (Denmark)
The Whitney Museum of American Art (The USA)
MUSMA Museo della Scultura Contemporanea Matera (Italy)
The Weatherspoon Art Museum (The USA)
MNBA - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes - Argentina (Argentina)
Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje (FYROM)
Artothèque of Brest (France)
Henie Onstad Museum (Norway)
Artothèque de Caen (France)
Thomas Neirynck Collection (Belgium)
Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne (Switzerland)
Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Italy)
Belgacom art collection (Belgium)
nufnuf-art foundation (Switzerland)
National Center for Plastic Arts (France)
Cour d'Or Museum - Metz (France)
UMMA University of Michigan Museum of Art (The USA)
Kunsthalle Emden (Germany)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (Belgium)
Artothèque, Angers (France)
Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales (Uruguay)
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (Germany)
ENSBA National School of Fine Arts (France)
Saint Priest Artothèque (France)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York (The USA)
Wichita Art Museum (The USA)
Géotec collection (France)
Caroline and Maurice Verbaet Collection (Belgium)
Tate Collection (United Kingdom)
Canton Museum of Art (The USA)
Gemeentemuseum Helmond (Netherlands)
Des Moines Art Center (The USA)
Artothèque, Poitiers (France)
Dordrechts Museum (Netherlands)
The Modern Museum in Sweden - Moderna Museet (Sweden)
Ohara Museum of Art (Japan)
Museo José Luis Cuevas (México)
The Sart-Tilman Open Air Museum (Belgium)
University Art Museum | California State University (The USA)
David Winton Bell Gallery - Brown University (The USA)
Artothèque, Millau (France)
Van Elsene Museum of Ixelles (Belgium)
Haggerty Museum at Marquette University (The USA)
Eli ans Edythe Broad Art Museum (The USA)
Calais Fine Arts Museum (France)
Réattu Museum (France)
Rolin Museum (France)
Artothèque, Nantes (France)
By Hallen Haarlem (Netherlands)