Jutaro Kuroda1887~1970 黒田重太郎

Kuroda Jutaro (September 20, 1887 - June 24, 1970) was a Japanese Western-style (yoga) painter from Shiga Prefecture. He studied under Kanokogi Takeshiro and Asai Chu, and was first selected for the Bunten exhibition in 1912. He studied in France twice from 1916 onward, introducing new artistic movements such as Fauvism and Cubism to Japan. He became a member of the Nika-kai in 1923, and in 1924 co-founded the Shinanobashi Western Painting Institute in Osaka with Koide Narashige, training the next generation of yoga painters. He served as the first director of the Kansai Bijutsuin in 1968, and was awarded the Imperial Prize of the Japan Art Academy in 1969.