Kunitaro Suda1891~1961 須田国太郎

Suda Kunitaro was a Japanese Western-style (yoga) painter born in Kyoto on June 6, 1891, who later served as a professor emeritus at Kyoto City University of Arts. He studied aesthetics and art history at Kyoto Imperial University and drawing at the Kansai Art Institute, and from 1919 to 1923 he traveled and worked in Europe, residing especially in Spain where he studied Titian, Tintoretto, and El Greco. He developed a distinctive style marked by heavy, somber tonalities and a synthesis of Eastern and Western techniques, and in 1934 he joined the Dokuritsu Bijutsu Kyokai (Independent Art Association) as one of its central figures. He was elected a member of the Japan Art Academy in 1947 and died on December 16, 1961.