Nguyễn Văn Tỵ (
Hanoi
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, 1917 – Hanoi, 19 January 1992) was a Vietnamese painter. He studied art at the École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine 1934-41 where classmates included
Hoàng Tích Chù and Nguyễn Tiến Chung.
Nguyễn Văn Tỵ
"On his return to Hanoi after the French resistance war, he taught at the Vietnam Fine Art College (Trường cao đẳng Mỹ thuật Việt Nam), a post that he held until 1969. He was also appointed as the first Secretary General of the Vietnam Fine Art Association from 1957-58." In 2001, he was posthumously awarded the Hồ Chí Minh Prize for his contribution to the arts.
Nguyen Van Ty (painter, born 1917).gif, Nam Bắc Một Nhà, lacquer art
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1917 births
1992 deaths
Ho Chi Minh Prize recipients
20th-century Vietnamese painters
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