Kanji Maeta1896~1930 前田寛治

Kanji Maeta (October 1, 1896 – April 16, 1930) was a Japanese Western-style (yoga) painter from Hokuei, Tottori Prefecture. After graduating from the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, he studied in Paris from 1922 to 1925, where he closely investigated the realism of Gustave Courbet. Returning to Japan, he won repeated honors at the Teiten exhibitions, received the Imperial Fine Arts Academy Prize in 1929, and was a leading figure of the 1923 Association. His fusion of classical composition and Fauvist brushwork was so influential that the term “Maekan-bari” (Maeta-style) became popular among contemporary painters. He died of a nasal tumor at age 33.