Judy Michiels van Kessenichartist • painterRoermond 1901-1972 's-Hertogenbosch

The artistic training of Judy van Wijnbergen-Michiels von Kessenich, simply called Judy Kessenich, was very international. After her youth in Roermond, Limburg, she was taught successively by George Baltus in Brussels, H. Hofmann in Munich, Josef Binder in Vienna and André Lhote at the Académie Montparnasse in Paris. The latter in particular had a great influence on her work. The painter's oeuvre consists of portraits, landscapes and cityscapes, the essence of which she captures in rapid, global brushstrokes. She also made several wall paintings. In the 1950s, Judy Kessenich also started painting her world of ideas in a non-figurative visual language.