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Takeshiro Kanokogi

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Nationality
  
Japan

Died
  
1941

Known for
  
Painting

Education
  
Académie Julian

Takeshiro Kanokogi

Born
  
1874
Okayama Prefecture

Takeshiro Kanokogi (鹿子木 孟郎, Kanokogi Takeshirō, 1874 – 1941), born in Okayama Prefecture was a Japanese painter.

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Biography

Takeshiro Kanokogi studied with painters Matsubata Sangoro and later Koyama Shotaro in Osaka. He traveled back and forth to Paris France several times, at first when he was 26 years old. He spent around seven years in the city, during which time he studied with Jean-Paul Laurens and Emile René Ménard at the Académie Julian.

He is known for portrait, figure, land and seascape painting in the western style.

Collections

  • Hiroshima Museum of Art
  • Kurashiki City Art Museum
  • Musée d'Orsay
  • References

    Takeshiro Kanokogi Wikipedia