Katsuyuki Nabei1888~1969 鍋井克之

NABEI Katsuyuki (1888-1969) was a leading Japanese yoga (Western-style) oil painter and a central figure of the Kansai painting world. Born in Osaka on August 18, 1888, he graduated from the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1915, the same year his work "Aki no Renzan" won the Nika Prize at the second Nika Exhibition. After studying in France, he became a full member of the Nika-kai in 1923 and the following year co-founded the Shinanobashi Yoga Kenkyusho in Osaka with Koide Narashige, establishing a key center of Kansai oil painting. In 1947 he left the Nika-kai to help found the Nikikai, and in 1950 he received the Japan Art Academy Prize for works including "Asa no Katsuura-ko." He became a professor at Naniwa University of Arts in 1964 and is also known as an essayist whose bright, lyrical landscapes of Kishu and southern port towns remain widely admired.