Johannes Michalski
Johannes Michalski was a Belgian-born American painter. A double amputee, he painted by holding the brush with his mouth.
Early life
Born on 10 December 1936 in Vucht, Belgium to Anton Michalski and Cecelia Walchzak. He was the youngest of three siblings, raised by a single mother after losing his father to suicide at the age of two.Johannes spent many of his childhood years in orphanages suffering lots of physical and emotional abuse because of his mother's struggle to find work and an environment safe for him and his siblings which resulted from war that happened in Europe as at the time.
He lost both of his arms at the age of ten in an electrocution accident when he grabbed a power line with his hands by mistake and fell from the electrical pole. He struggled to survive the incident and spent many years after to relearn using his mouth and feet the most basic tasks of daily living.