Masuo ikeda biography of albert
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When the Japanese Masuo Ikeda (1934-1997) won the international Grand Prize of Prints at the 33rd Venice International Biennale in 1966, he became a star in Europe overnight.
Who was this unknown young Japanese artist who had been so strongly endorsed 6 years earlier by the legendary German art critic and art historian Dr. Will Grohmann?
Masuo ikeda biography of albert
This Dr. Will Grohmann was after all the same art critic that had promoted artists like Ernst Kirchner, Paul Klee, Wassily Kadinsky and that had contributed to their lasting importance to art.
One of the most brilliant contemporary Japanese artists, the internationally acclaimed engraver Masuo Ikeda , was an artistic phenomenon who defied categorisation.
Ikeda overstepped boundaries with his originality and polymath abilities in the arts. He was a painter, printmaker, illustrator, sculptor, ceramist, novelist and film director.
Ikeda was born in Mukuden, Manchuria, and moved back to Nagano Prefecture with his parents at the end of W