Ryunosuke Fukui
Western style painter
Ryonosuke Fukui Ryonosuke Fukui
Western-style painter of the Showa period
Year of birth
15 December 1923
Year of death
9 July 1986
Place of birth.
Nihonbashi, Tokyo
Educational background
Graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Department of Metalworking (1944)
Major awards [year].
Hitoshi Hasegawa Award (9th) [1985].
Career history.
Aspired to become a painter in junior high school and studied oil painting. After the war, he taught arts and crafts in Iwate Prefecture, where he was evacuated, before moving to Tokyo at the age of 29. In 1953, his oil paintings were selected for the Free Artists' Association Exhibition, and in the same year he began stencil printmaking, holding the first stencil printmaking exhibition in 1959. His motifs are varied, including snow scenes, still life and women. He remained unaffiliated with the art world. Works include Winter in Michinoku and Study of Life and Death, Love.
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