Ludo Janssens (1936 - )

Ludo Janssens

Ludo was born on April 26 in the Belgian city of Menen in 1936.Training at St.Lucas in Gent led by Rik Wouters,Max Vandamme and Haspar De Vuyst.Works in a very personal style,where he held various techniques used interchangeably.Painter,draughtsman of portraits,children,nudes,landscapes,clowns,marines,cityviews,women in the Post-Impressionist style.Teacher publicity and live models at the Academy of Menen.Gave his disciples salami and it worked,after a few times to be able to start again,to avoid that they were not greasy spots on the work.One of his pupils was the Belgian artist Paul Gosselin.He is a Plein-air painter who often used razors for accents in his paintings.His paintings are reminiscent of the works of Alfons Blomme (1889-1979).