Keiichi Takazawa1914~1984 高沢圭一

Takazawa Keiichi (1914 - 1984) was a Japanese Western-style painter and essayist born in Gunma Prefecture. He left Tokyo Higher Technical School in 1936 and from 1937 served at the Army's Shanghai Press Bureau. In 1939 he received the Asahi Shimbun Award for "Charge Route" (size 100) at the Sacred War Art Exhibition, and through this opportunity became a pupil of Tsuguharu Foujita. In 1974 he held the "Flowers and Butterflies" exhibition at the Vendome Gallery in Paris, in 1975 his work "Crimson" was awarded at the French Le Salon exhibition, and from 1976 he created the cover art for the magazine Fujin Koron, becoming widely known for his beauty paintings featuring women with porcelain-like skin. He was also recognized as an essayist and received the first Japan Essayists Association Award.