Pierre ALECHINSKY - Osnabruck Station

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.

Fondation Beyeler (Switzerland)
Walker Art Center (The USA)
Museum of fine arts (Budapest) (Hungary)
Fondation Collection E.G. Bührle (Switzerland)
Das Museum Folkwang (Germany)
Kunstmuseum Basel (Switzerland)
Musée national Marc Chagall (France)
The Bridgestone Museum of art Ishibashi Foundation (Japan)
Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes (France)
Schaulager - Emmanuel Hoffmann Foundation (Switzerland)
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (The USA)
Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) (The USA)
Musée d'art moderne Ceret (France)
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Germany)
Nagoya City Art Museum (Japan)
Deutsche Bank Art Collection (Germany)
Le musée Magnelli (France)
The Thyssen Bornemisza Collection (Spain)
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (The USA)
Fukuoka Art Museum (Japan)
Kröller-Müller Museum (Netherlands)
Kunsthaus Zurich (Switzerland)
Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght (France)
City of Chicago Public Art Collection (The USA)
Arkansas Arts Center (The USA)
Nykytaiteen museo Kiasma (Finland)
Göteborg Art Museum (Sweden)
de Saisset Museum (The USA)
Hamburger Kunsthalle (Germany)
The Indianapolis Museum of Art (The USA)
Tretyakov Gallery (Russia)
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (France)
The Claude Dray collection (France)
The Farjam Collection (U.A.E)
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Israel)
Fuji Art Museum (Japan)
Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne (France)
Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg (France)
Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein (Liechtenstein)
Opéra Garnier (France)
Musée de Grenoble (France)
MIT List Visual arts Center (The USA)
ACAPA (Artothèque Angoulême) (France)
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (Canada)
Horsens Kunstmuseum (Denmark)
Boca Raton Museum of art (The USA)
Musée Matisse au Cateau-Cambrésis (France)
The Weatherspoon Art Museum (The USA)
Israel Museum (Israel)
MNBA - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes - Argentina (Argentina)
Phoenix Art Museum (The USA)
MAMAC (Musée d'Art contemporain de la ville de Liège) (Belgium)
Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme 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 fondation (Switzerland)
Cathédrale de Metz (France)
National Gallery of Armenia (Armenia)
Werner et Gabrielle Merzbacher collection (Switzerland)
National Museum of Western Art & Matsukata Collection (Japan)
Figge Art Museum (The USA)
Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales (Uruguay)
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (Germany)
Musée des Beaux arts de 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)
Musée d'Art Moderne de Belfort (France)
Museum Ludwig (Köln) (Germany)
Museo Botero (Colombia)
Le Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (France)
The Kreeger Museum (The USA)
Collection Gelonch Viladegut
Centre de la gravure et de l'image imprimée (Belgium)