Renée PRINZ “The Meuse at Lives-sur-Meuse in winter” oil painting on canvas

Born in Antwerp to parents from Liège, including a father who was a senior officer, Renée Prinz was, through the family tribulations, a student at the Academies of Mons first, then Antwerp and finally Namur from 1905. There she was a student of Nicolas Vanden Eden and then Désiré Merny, through whom she perhaps contracted the landscape bug because she was first a landscaper, even if we also owe her portraits and still lifes (the City has some).
In 1947, she was a member of the Atelier des Artistes Mosans with Yvonne Gérard, Yvonne Perin, Albert Dandoy, Albert Houart, Georges Lambillotte and Louis-Marie Londot, which others would later join. Encouraged by the authorities, they had a workshop-room on the upper floor of the Bourse de Commerce (the current Congress Center, Place d'Armes) and an annual operating subsidy was allocated to them.
Painting in oils and watercolors, Renée Prinz exhibited her work throughout Belgium, both individually and in groups. In 1969, a retrospective exhibition was dedicated to her at the Maison de la Culture in Namur.
Bibliography among others: "Dictionaries of Belgian painters from the 14th century to the present day" Brussels, La Renaissance du Livre, 1995
"Plastic Arts in the Province of Namur. 1945 - 1990" Brussels, Crédit communal, 1991