Kunio Takeuchi1937~2004 竹内邦夫

TAKEUCHI Kunio was a nihonga painter born in Tokyo in 1937. He graduated from the Japanese Painting Department of Tokyo University of the Arts in 1960 and was first selected for the Japan Art Institute Exhibition (Inten) in 1962. He received the Gendai Exhibition Award at the Mainichi Contemporary Art Exhibition in 1964 and the Encouragement Award at the 33rd Spring Inten in 1978, and was elected a Tokutai member of the Japan Art Institute in 1993. He created murals for the new Suginami Ward Office in 1992 and ceiling paintings for Shinseiji, the Tokyo branch temple of the Tendai Shinsei sect, in 2002. He passed away in 2004.