Jin Osakabe1906~1978 刑部人

Jin Osakabe (1906-1978) was a Western-style (Yoga) painter born in Tochigi Prefecture. He entered the Western Painting Department of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1924 and made his Teiten debut in 1928. Initially known for realistic landscapes, he developed a distinctive technique after a creative slump influenced by European avant-garde, layering half-dried paint using the spring-back of a painting knife. His representative works are mostly landscapes such as “Winter in Karuizawa,” “Mountain Stream,” and “Yoshino”; he won Nitten Special Selections in 1946 and 1948 and served as a Nitten judge from 1967. He died of renal failure in 1978.