Here are two unframed vintage original colored etchings, both entitled “Bruxelles” (which is the French word for Brussels), by Belgian artist Roger Hebbelinck. They each show a different scene (with people walking or working, in between buildings) in Brussels, Belgian. The colors in the etchings are (primarily) blue, brown, and yellow. The prints are signed by the artist (in pencil) in the lower right corners. Roger Hebbelinck signed his work using either his full last name (of Hebbelinck) or what appeared to be a part of his last name (ie: Belin or Linck). These artworks are signed “Linck”. Each etching has a stamp on its back, indicating that it was printed by Stehli Freres Editeurs, in Zurich, Switzerland.

Roger Hebbelinck (1912-1987) was born in Brussels, Belgium. He studied (oil painting, landscape painting, watercolor, engraving, etching, drawing, the history of art of human and animal anatomy, designing of the human body, and the history of costumes), under the tutelage of some of the most famous artists and teachers of his day, including Alfred Bastien, Jean Delville, Guilluame Van Strydonck, Isidore van Mens, Julien Van Santen, and Paul Mathieu. Some of his studies were at the Academie des Beaux Arts, in Brussels. Although Hebbelinck was an oil painter, watercolorist, and engraver, he was best known for his colored etchings. He created many etchings of townscapes in Belgium. Some of his etchings were used as the illustrations for the book Les Villages Illusoires by the poet Emile Verhaeren. In the Mid-20th Century, Hebbelinck’s art work was regularly included in exhibitions in Belgium and France. By the 1950s, he was also a filmmaker, who won a prize at the Cannes (France) Film Festival for his documentary entitled La Naissance d’une Eau-forte (The Birth of an Etching). He also worked on a documentary for the Antwerp (Belgium) Film Festival that was about the construction of the structure called Atomium, which was originally built for the 1958 Brussels World Fair.

Stehli Freres (or Stehli Brothers) Editeurs was a printing/publishing company that operated from 1902 to 1995, in (first) Geneva, Switzerland and (later) Zurich, Switzerland. It was world-renowned for printing art books, fine art prints (based upon the work of well-known artists such as Roger Hebbelinck, Nicolas Markovitch, and Stanislaus Longley), and high-quality postcards.

Each etching is about 7 inches (wide) by 8 1/4 inches (high).

These artworks are in good condition, with no tears, stains, or wrinkled/folded paper. The etching papers have slightly yellowed (with age) and there is foxing on the edges (only) of the papers.

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