(1922–1995) was a Japanese painter and printmaker.

Biography

Shigeru Izumi was born in 1922 in

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. He attended the Nakanoshima School of Western Art, and the Osaka City Kogei School (Osaka City School of Applied Arts), graduating in 1939. In 1951 he established the ''Osaka demokurato bijutsu kyokai'' (Democratic Artists Association) with fellow artists

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and Yoshio Hayakawa. In 1959 he traveled to New York where he was guest professor at the

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. In 1963 he moved to Paris where he lived until around 1968, when he returned to Japan. Shigeru Izumi taught at the

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from 1970 through the early 1990s. Shigeru Izumi died in 1995. His work is in the collections of the

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, the

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, the

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, and the

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. His work is also in the

Carnegie Museum of Art The Carnegie Museum of Art, is an art museum in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Originally known as the Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute and was at what is now the Main Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsbur ...

, the

Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Art is a purpose built municipal art gallery in Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It was opened in 2002. The major collections of the museum are foreign and Japanese sculptures, foreign and Japanese prints, Western-style and Japanese-style ...

, the

Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts The is a museum in Haramachida, Machida City, Tokyo, Japan. History The museum opened in 1987. Exhibitions The museum exhibits 30,000 Japanese and Western paintings since 8th century until today. It has permanent and temporary exhibitions. ...

, the Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum, the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, the

National Museum of Art, Osaka is a subterranean Japanese art museum located on the island of Nakanoshima, located between the Dōjima River and the Tosabori River, about 10 minutes west of Higobashi Station in central Osaka. The official Japanese title of the museum transl ...

, the

National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto The is an art museum in Kyoto, Japan. This Kyoto museum is also known by the English acronym MoMAK (Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto). History The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (MoMAK) was initially created as the Annex Museum of the National ...

, the

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo The in Tokyo, Japan, is the foremost museum collecting and exhibiting modern Japanese art. This Tokyo museum is also known by the English acronym MOMAT (National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo). The museum is known for its collection of 20th-centu ...

, and the

Tokushima Modern Art Museum is a prefectural art museum in Japan Collection Tokushima Modern Art Museum permanent collection includes works by Western and Japanese artists, like Picasso, Klee, Kiyokata Kaburagi, Seishi Kishimoto, Antony Gormley. Notable exhibitions In 201 ...

References

External links

images of Shigeru Izumi's work
on ArtNet {{DEFAULTSORT:Izumi, Shigeru 1922 births 1995 deaths 20th-century Japanese painters 20th-century printmakers