Roger Hebbelinck - Beautiful etching of the Montelbaanstoren in Amsterdam. - Sold

Beautiful etching of the Montelbaanstoren in Amsterdam.
Roger Hebbelinck (Brussels, 1912 - 1987) is a Belgian artist. Hebbelinck worked as a painter, watercolourist, etcher and filmmaker. He was best known for his etchings. He was a student of A. Bastien, J. Delville, G. Van Strydonck, A. Stevens, I. Van Mens, J. Van Santen and P. Mathieu, with whom he studied at the Academy of Brussels. At the Academy of Brussels he received lessons in watercolor painting from I. van Mens and engraving from J. van Santen. He etched a large number of picturesque city corners in historic cities. He provided the etchings for the book Les Villages Illusoires by E. Verhaeren. As a filmmaker, he made, among other things, the documentary La Naissance d'une Eau-forte, which won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and a documentary about the construction of the Atomium. As a visual artist, he founded an etching printing studio before the war in 1932 and etched many picturesque cityscapes in Belgium. He also etched and painted in watercolors in the Netherlands (Bergen op Zoom) and the south of France and Spain. Also special are his color etchings that he made after works by his colleagues V. de Saedeleer and A. Saverys. He signed this with the pseudonym "Belin".