LISTED ARTIST Roger Hebbelinck was a Belgian artist. Roger Hebbelinck was born August 12th 1912 in Brussels, Belgium. Roger Hebbelinck studied drawing at the Academie Des Beaux Arts in Brussels under Professors: Stevens, Van Strydonck & Delville, in whose class Hebbelinck achieved a first for antique figure drawing. Later he took up oil painting under the tuition of Professor Bastien and also landscape painting in particular under Nathieu. Roger Hebbelinck also studied the history of art of human and animal anatomy as well as history of costume. Further studies were devoted to the designing of the human body, under Professor Dierick, at the academy of Fine Arts in Brussels & watercolour under the direction of I.S Van Mens, the noted Dutch Aquarelliste. Among other things, he made the documentary La Naissance d’une Eau-forte who won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival and a documentary about the Atomium building . As an artist, he founded a etching press studio before the war in 1932 and etched many picturesque cityscapes in Belgium. He also etched and watered in southern France and Spain. Special are his color schemes that he made for the work of his colleagues V. de Saedeleer and A. Saverys. He signed this with the pseudonym “Belin”. Hebbelinck’s work was regularly shown in exhibitions in Belgium and France and is represented in many important collections.