Pierre ALECHINSKY - Osnabruck Station, 2016 - Engraving signed in pencil

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.

Beyeler Foundation (Switzerland)
Walker Art Center (The USA)
Museum of fine arts (Budapest) (Hungary)
EG Bührle Collection Foundation (Switzerland)
The Folkwang Museum (Germany)
Kunstmuseum Basel (Switzerland)
Marc Chagall National Museum (France)
The Bridgestone Museum of art Ishibashi Foundation (Japan)
Museum of Fine Arts of Nantes (France)
Schaulager - Emmanuel Hoffmann Foundation (Switzerland)
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (The USA)
Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) (The USA)
Museum of Modern Art Ceret (France)
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Germany)
Nagoya City Art Museum (Japan)
Deutsche Bank Art Collection (Germany)
The Magnelli Museum (France)
The Thyssen Bornemisza Collection (Spain)
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (The USA)
Fukuoka Art Museum (Japan)
Kröller-Müller Museum (Netherlands)
Kunsthaus Zurich (Switzerland)
Marguerite and Aimé Maeght Foundation (France)
City of Chicago Public Art Collection (The USA)
Arkansas Arts Center (The USA)
Nykytaiteen museo Kiasma (Finland)
Gothenburg Art Museum (Sweden)
de Saisset Museum (The USA)
Hamburger Kunsthalle (Germany)
The Indianapolis Museum of Art (The USA)
Tretyakov Gallery (Russia)
Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris (France)
The Claude Dray collection (France)
The Farjam Collection (UAE)
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Israel)
Fuji Art Museum (Japan)
Centre Pompidou - National Museum of Modern Art (France)
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Strasbourg (France)
Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein (Liechtenstein)
Garnier Opera (France)
Museum of Grenoble (France)
MIT List Visual arts Center (The USA)
ACAPA (Angoulême Art Library) (France)
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (Canada)
Horsens Kunstmuseum (Denmark)
Boca Raton Museum of art (The USA)
Matisse Museum in Cateau-Cambrésis (France)
The Weatherspoon Art Museum (The USA)
Israel Museum (Israel)
MNBA - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes - Argentina (Argentina)
Phoenix Art Museum (USA)
MAMAC (Museum of Contemporary Art of the City of Liège) (Belgium)
Museum of Jewish Art and History MAHJ (Paris) (France)
Stiftung Sammlung Ziegler (Germany)
Albertina (Austria)
Van Abbe Museum (Netherlands)
Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Italy)
Norton Museum of Art (The USA)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (The USA)
nufnuf-art foundation (Switzerland)
Metz Cathedral (France)
National Gallery of Armenia (Armenia)
Werner and Gabrielle Merzbacher collection (Switzerland)
National Museum of Western Art & Matsukata Collection (Japan)
Figge Art Museum (The USA)
National Museum of Visual Arts (Uruguay)
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (Germany)
Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (France)
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas (Venezuela)
Mississippi Museum of Art (The USA)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York (The USA)
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College (The USA)
Wichita Art Museum (The USA)
Gardiner Museum (Canada)
Avampato Discovery Museum (The USA)
Tate Collection (United Kingdom)
Haifa Museum of Art (Israel)
Museum of Avant-Garde Mastery (MAGMA) (Russia)
Auckland Art Gallery (Australia)
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (Germany)
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu (New Zealand)
Canton Museum of Art (The USA)
The Art Institute of Chicago (The USA)
Des Moines Art Center (The USA)
Saint Louis Museum of Art (The USA)
The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama (Japan)
Foosaner Art Museum (The USA)
Coninx Museum (Switzerland)
Holstebro Kunstmuseum (Denmark)
The Fralin | UVa Art Museum - University of Virginia (The USA)
The Russian Museum (Russia)
Utah Museum of Fine Art (The USA)
The International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza (Italy)
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (The USA)
The Modern Museum in Sweden - Moderna Museet (Sweden)
Brauer Museum of Art - Valparaiso University (The USA)
Ohara Museum of Art (Japan)
University of Wyoming Art Museum (The USA)
Art Gallery of Hamilton (Canada)
Cà Pesaro Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna (Italy)
David Winton Bell Gallery - Brown University (The USA)
Haggerty Museum at Marquette University (The USA)
Eli ans Edythe Broad Art Museum (The USA)
Museum of Modern Art of Belfort (France)
Museum Ludwig (Köln) (Germany)
Botero Museum (Colombia)
The Palace of Fine Arts in Lille (France)
The Kreeger Museum (The USA)
Gelonch Viladegut Collection
Center for Engraving and Printed Images (Belgium)