PA
Arts & Literature

Pierre Alechinsky

Share
Who

Pierre Alechinsky · Arts & Literature

What

Belgian painter of the CoBrA movement (Jewish father)

When

1927, Brussels, Belgium

Where

Belgium · France

Biography

Pierre Alechinsky is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Belgian painter of the CoBrA movement (Jewish father)

How & why

Pierre Alechinsky is a Belgian painter and printmaker, a leading member of the postwar CoBrA movement, known for gestural, calligraphic works often framed by comic-strip-like marginal images. He has lived and worked mainly in France since the 1950s. His father was a Jewish physician of Russian origin.

Sources & external links

Verify and go deeper with these external references.

Source: Wikipedia

This page is published in seven languages from an English source. The translations are reviewed, but a mistake can still slip through. If you spot one on this profile — a wrong word, a lost date, a sentence that says something the English does not — please tell us.

Contributions & Sources

Belgian painter of the CoBrA movement (Jewish father)

1949

Source: Wikipedia