BIOGRAFIE
1927 | Born in Brussels, Belgium |
1944 – 1948 | Studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture et des Arts Decoratifs, Brussels, Belgium |
1949 | Associated with the newly formed CoBrA Movement |
1977 | Recipient, Andrew W. Mellon Prize for Painting |
1984 | Recipient, French Grand Prix National for Painting |
1984 – 1987 | Professor at the French National School of Fine Arts, Paris, France |
AUSSTELLUNGEN
2010 | Alechinsky: les Ateliers du Midi, Musée Granet, Aix en Provence, France (solo) |
2009 | Pierre Alechinsky: Ronds, Peintures 2008-2009, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France (solo) |
2008 | 60 Jahre COBRA, DIE GALERIE, Frankfurt, Germany Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (solo) |
2007 | Pierre Alechinsky: Terrils, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France (solo) |
2006 | Entre Cobra et l'abstraction, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, France |
2004 | Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France |
2002 | Baukunst Galerie, Cologne, Germany |
1998 | Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France (solo) |
1987 | Retrospective, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (solo) |
1981 | Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo) |
1978 | Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France |
1977 | Retrospective, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA (solo) |
1965 | L’Ecart Absolu, Tenth International Surrealist, Paris, France Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL (solo) |
1960 | XXX Venice Biennale, Venice , Italy |
1958 | Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK (solo) |
1955 | Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (solo) |
1954 | Nina Dausset, Paris, France (solo) |
AUSZEICHNUNGEN
2018 | wird er mit dem Praemium Imperiale ausgezeichnet. |
1994 | erhielt er die Ehrendoktorwürde der Universität Brüssel. |
1993 | wurde er zum Ritter der Ehrenlegion ernannt. |
WERKE IN SAMMLUNGEN
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina Tate Gallery, London, UK Royal Museums of Fine Arts , Belgium, Brussels Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel |