Kunito Nagaoka

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Kunito Nagaoka ( Japanese 長 岡 国人 , Nagaoka Kunito ; * 1940 in Nagano Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese art professor, painter , etcher and graphic artist .

Career

Growing up in Nagano, he studied at Tama Art University from 1959 to 1963 and then worked as a graphic designer in Tokyo . In 1966 Nagaoka moved to West Berlin and from 1967 studied at the State Academy for Graphics, Printing and Advertising in Jürgen Spohn's class . In 1976 he moved to the Academy of Fine Arts where he became a master student of Gerhart Bergmann in 1976 . Today Nagaoka works as a professor at the Kyōto-shiritsu Geijutsu Daigaku Art School in Kyōto .

Act

Nagaoka initially experimented with various techniques and materials until he found the appropriate means of expression in etching in 1971. In the 1970s, he developed his technique in Louise Koehnke-Duewell's etching workshop , above all the two-plate printing for etchings, which was already exceptional at that time. Many of Nagaoka's prints from the 1970s are visual explorations of the Asama and its landscape near his childhood home. Besides the copper plate, paper is its actual material.

honors and awards

  • 1977 Grand Prix of the 3rd Vienna Graphic Biennale , Vienna
  • 1978 Medal of Honor at the 7th International Graphic Biennial , Cracow
  • 1978 Prize of the 5th International Graphic Biennial , Frechen
  • 1979 Medal of Honor at the Biennale of Small Grafic Forms , Lodz
  • 1980 Intergrafik '80 sponsorship award , Berlin / GDR
  • 1980 Prize of the 8th International Graphic Biennial , Cracow
  • 1980 Prize of the 6th International Graphic Biennial , Frechen
  • 1980 Ibizagrafik '80 Prize , Ibiza
  • 2013 Blue Ribbon Medal (藍 綬 褒 章Ranju hōshō ) from the Japanese imperial family for services to the community and education

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Annex Galleries: Biography Kunito Nagaoka. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Kunito Nagaoka: Catalog raisonné of the etchings 1971-1981 . Verlag der Galerie Marina Dinkler, Berlin 1982, p. 7, ISBN 3-88602-060-6 .
  3. ↑ THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART WAKAYAMA: ISEKI / PY I. Accessed June 12, 2020 (Japanese).
  4. ^ Oita Prefectural Art Museum: NAGAOKA Kunito, Nagano Prefecture. Retrieved June 12, 2020 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Nagaoka, Kunito
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 長 岡 国人 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese art professor, painter, etcher and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagano Prefecture , Japan