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 in Tonkin under French colonial rule in 1925. The university has trained many of Vietnam's leading artists and ...

Hanoi Hanoi ( ; ; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Vietnam, second-most populous city of Vietnam. The name "Hanoi" translates to "inside the river" (Hanoi is bordered by the Red River (Asia), Red and Black River (Asia), Black Riv ...

. In 1946, he was one of the first, with

Tô Ngọc Vân Tô Ngọc Vân (蘇玉雲, 15 December 1906 or 1908 – 17 June 1954), also known as Tô Tử, was a Vietnamese painter. Several of his paintings are being displayed at the Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts. He taught a resistance art cla ...

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, ( :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 for fine art in 1996.

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