Maurice Jean Micha was born in Spa, Belgium in 1890. He painted genre and urban scenes, figures, portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and frescoes.
Micha studied at l’Académie de Bruxelles and traveled to Italy to see the great masterpieces of art and architectural history. Micha and W. Paerels were friends.
Initially Fauvism influenced Micha’s style, but as his work matured, his palette became more somber. Micha’s boldest paintings are typical of the Belgian Expressionists, including cubist elements and brush strokes that create angular movement.
He created a fresco for the Belgian pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. The Musée d’Ixelles owns some of Micha’s work.
