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Literature
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Basic Data

Pierre Alechinsky is a Belgian painter and graphic artist. His work, in addition to Tachism, is also associated with Lyrical abstraction as well as Informel. Characteristic of Alechinsky's poetic and versatile oeuvre are his paintings and works in which he spans an arc between Asian and Western European culture. He combines elements of East Asian calligraphy with gestural painting and figuration in his distinctive visual language.

Born: 19 October 1927
Place of birth: Brussel, Belgium
Nationality: Belgian
Studied at: L'École de la Cambre
Era: Modern art

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Pierre Alechinsky Print Lithograph Capture

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Pierre Alechinsky Print Lithograph Cherbourg

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Pierre Alechinsky Print Lithograph Corps et biens

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Pierre Alechinsky Print Lithograph Dernier en date

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Pierre Alechinsky Print Lithograph Entre les lignes

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Pierre Alechinsky Print Lithograph Was ist los

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Pierre Alechinsky Print Lithograph Zigouratt

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Exhibitions

15.10. 2021 - 27.02.2022 XXL Le dessin contemporain en grand – Musée Jenisch, Vevey.
26.06.2021 - 29.08.2021 Sammlung König-Lebschik – Kunsthaus Bregenz.
01.04.2021 - 01.08.2021 Pierre Alechinsky Carta Canta, Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.
27.02.2021 - 26.09.2021 wild/schön - Kunsthalle Emden
04.05.20 - 28.06.20 Museo Tamayo Collection - Museo Tamayo, Mexiko City.
04.04.20 - 07.06.20 Herzstücke. Sammlung Kunsthalle Emden, Tübingen.
29.02.20 - 25.04.20 Contemporary meets Masters – Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich.
29.06.2019 - 29.09.2019 Face it! - Kunstmuseum Ravensburg.
27.05.2019 - 19.05.2019 Platons Erben – Die Sammlungen im Kunstmuseum Bayreuth - Kunstmuseum Bayreuth.
13.05.2017 - 26.11.2017 INTUITION - PALAZZO FORTUNY, Venice.
12.11.2015 - 23.01.2016 Auf Papier - On Paper - Die Galerie, Frankfurt/Main
22.03.2013 - 09.06.2013 Von Beckmann bis Warhol. Die Sammlung Bayer - Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin.
14.06.2011 - 08.01.2012 Painterly Abstraction, 1949-1969 - Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao.
05.06.2010 - 01.11.2010 Alechinsky: les Ateliers du Midi - Musée Granet, Aix en Provence.
19.03.2009 - 10.05.2009 Die Macht des Expressiven - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
23.11.2007 - 30.05.2007 ALECHINSKY from A to Y - Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.
30.04.2005 - 10.07.2005 Pierre Alechinsky - Kunsthalle Emden.
30.06.2004 – 27.09.2004 Alechinsky - In the Land of Ink – Centre Pompidou, Paris.
18.07.1999 - 16.09.1999 Von Pierre Alechinsky bis Maurice Wyckaert – Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz / Museum Gunzenhauser.

Awards

1977: Andrew-W.-Mellon-Prize for his oeuvre, Pittsburg.
1984: Grand Prix national des Arts et Letrres pour la Peinture, Paris.
1988: Herbert-Boeckl-Prize, Salzburg.
1993: L’ordre national de la Légion d’honneur, Paris.
1994: Ehrendoktorwürde der Universität Brussels.
2018: Praemium Imperiale, Tokyo.

Films

Calligraphie japonais, Documentation by Pierre Alechinsky, 16 min, Kyoto, 1957.

Literature

ALECHINSKY PB: marginalia: Plume et pinceau, Patrice Deparpe, Frankfurt/Main 2017.
Artists' Painters. Pierre Alechinsky: C'est par là!, Renate Goldmann (Publ.), Cologne 2016.
Pierre Alechinsky, Pierre Daix, Pierre Alechinsky, Lausanne 2015.
Alechinsky from A to Y, Michel Draquet (Publ.), exhibition catalog Musées des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Tielt 2008.
Pierre Alechinsky. Werke aus fünf Jahrzehnten, Achim Sommer, Ostfildern 2005.
Pierre Alechinsky: zwischen den Zeilen, Ernst-Gerhard Güse (Publ.), Ostfildern 1993.
Pierre Alechinsky: Margin and Center, exhibition catalog, Hanover 1988.
Pierre Alechinsky : Bilder, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen - eine Retrospektive, Carl Haenlein (Publ.), exhibition catalog, Hanover 1980.