Kunito nagaoka biography sample

Kunito Nagaoka, printmaker, painter, and educator, was born in Nagano Prefecture, Japan in 1940.

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He worked as a graphic designer in Tokyo for three years before moving to Berlin in 1966.  He studied in the Print Department in graphic, print, and advertising at the State Academy, and later in the Print and Painting Department of State Academy of Fine Arts. Her earned his Masters degree under Professor Gerhard Bergmann in 1976.

It should be noted that he studied etching with Louis Kohnke-Duwell.

He was Guest Professor at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts, Reykjavik, Iceland in 1984 and 1985; Guest Professor of Grafikaan Paja, at Jyvaskyla, Finland in 1986; Guest Professor at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, Austria in 1987, 1990 and 1993; and Guest Professor at the International Summer Academy in Gera, Austria each year from 1995 to 2008.

Nagaoka spent more than twenty years in Germany before returning to Japan where he was a Professor at the Kunito Nagaoka Biography | Annex Galleries Fine Prints NUCAR