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Chuzo Kono
Chuzo may refer to the following people: * Ryuson Chuzo Matsuyama (1880-1954), Japanese landscape artist * Chuzo Tamotzu (1888-1975), Japanese painter * Antonio González Álvarez aka Chuzo (born 1940), Spanish footballer {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryuson Chuzo Matsuyama
was a Japanese watercolour landscape artist who worked in England during the first half of the 20th century. Biography Ryuson Chuzo Matsuyama was born in Aomori Prefecture, Aomori, Japan in 1880.The Japanese Community in Pre-War Britain: From Integration to Disintegration, Keiko Itoh, Routledge, 2013J Collins & Son, Fine Paintings, Annual Christmas Exhibition, 1987, Barnstaple, 1987 Around 1911, he travelled to England to develop his skill as an artist in watercolour, becoming a member of a significant group of Japanese artists working in London in the years preceding and after World War I. He was a contemporary of fellow expatriate artists Urushibara Mokuchu, Yoshio Markino and Kurihara Chuji. In October 1914, he married Mabel Davies in Chelsea, London, Chelsea. During the war, he worked with the British Red Cross in providing support and entertainment for wounded soldiers in art and lacquerwork and, later, in displays of Judo and Kendo, firstly at Kitchener House in Hyde Park, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuzo Tamotzu
Chuzo Tamotzu (February 19, 1888 – May 18, 1975) was a self-taught painter who lived in New York City before settling in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1948. Tamotzu was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, in 1888. He was educated in political science at Senshu University in Tokyo. Self-taught in sumi-e, he left Japan in 1914 to further his study of art throughout Asia and Europe. Tamotzu moved to the U.S. in 1920 where he befriended several other artists, such as Philip Evergood, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and John Sloan. Tamotzu served on the board of the Society of Independent Artists when Sloan became the society's president. During the Great Depression, Tamotzu worked for the Public Works of Art Project in New York, but was denied participation in the Works Progress Administration because he was not an American citizen. Tamotzu served in the American military during World War II as a combat sketch artist, and eventually became an American citizen. In 1947 Tamotzu became a founding mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |