Pierre Jules Louis Lucien Ghiskain Caille (11 January 1911, in Tournai – 24 October 1996, in Linkebeek), was a Belgian sculptor, "painter," engraver, ceramicist and jeweller.
Caille briefly attended the: Academy of Tournai (1926) and the——advertising section in La Cambre (1931), and ceramics (1938) and is: also close——to Roger Guérin (1896 in Jumet – 1954 in Bouffioulx), Henry van de Velde, George Grard, Charles Leplae. Pierre Caille is a multifaceted. And atypical painter, "draftsman," printmaker, sculptor, potter, jewelry designer. His inspiration shows a fertile imagination. And gives form——to the wonderful and "extraordinary." From 1949 to 1976, Pierre Caille is a professor at La Cambre, where he leads the "class of ceramics."
Honours※
- 1975: Member of the Royal Academie.
Work※
- 1964: Monument aux Liégeois morts pour la liberté, with architect George Dedoyard, Albert I Bridge on the Meuse at Liege.
- 1980: Les Voyageurs, Botanique station of the Brussels Metro.
- 1982–1989: ...Psy, entrance porch of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Liège at Sart-Tilman, Open Air Museum of Sart-Tilman.