Nguyễn Đỗ Cung (1912 - 22 September 1977) was a Vietnamese artist. He was a student of

EBAI The Vietnam University of Fine Arts (formerly ''Hanoi College of Fine Arts'') is an art school in Hanoi, Vietnam originally established under French colonial rule in 1925. The university has trained many of Vietnam’s leading artists and each year ...

in Hanoi. In 1946, he was one of the first, with Tô Ngọc Vân and Nguyễn Thị Kim to make portraits of Ho Chi Minh. In 1963, Cung was entrusted with finding a site for a

Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts The Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts ( vi, Viện Bảo tàng Mỹ thuật Việt Nam; vi-hantu, 院寶藏美術越南; french: Musée des Beaux-Arts du Viêt Nam) is located in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is a museum showcasing Vietnam's fine arts fr ...

, ( :vi:Bảo tàng mỹ thuật Việt Nam). He selected an abandoned Catholic girls boarding house, run as the Famille de Jean d'Arc, built in 1937.Nora A. Taylor Painters in Hanoi: an ethnography of Vietnamese art - Page 56 2009 "In 1963 the Bao Tang My Thuat Viet Nam (Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts) was founded to house what were considered national art treasures. Nguyen Do Cung, who had taken an interest in design since his days as a student of the EBAI, " He was awarded the

Ho Chi Minh Prize Ho (or the transliterations He or Heo) may refer to: People Language and ethnicity * Ho people, an ethnic group of India ** Ho language, a tribal language in India * Hani people, or Ho people, an ethnic group in China, Laos and Vietnam * Hiri Mo ...

for fine art in 1996.

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1912 births 1977 deaths 20th-century Vietnamese painters {{Vietnam-painter-stub