Aimitsu
Ai-Mitsu (June 24, 1907 - January 19, 1946) was a Japanese artist and painter. He was also known as Akemitsu or his birth name, Nichiro Ishimura (石村 日郎). He is usually identified as a Surrealist although he also painted works that can be classified in other styles and genres.
Also recorded as Nichirō Ishimura · Nichirō Aikawa · Ai Mitsu · Mitsurō Aikawa
Aimitsu
- Name
- Ai-Mitsu
- Birth Name
- Nichirō Ishimura
- Born
- 24 June 1907
- Birthplace
- Hiroshima, Japan
- Died
- 19 January 1946
- Place of death
- Shanghai, China
- Field
- Painting
- Full name
- 石村 日郎.
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- painter · artist
- Languages
- Japanese
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He was born into a small landowning family in 1907 in Hiroshima, and given the name Nichiro Ishimura, which he later changed to Ai-Mitsu when he moved to Tokyo to pursue his career as an artist. In 1934 he married Kie, a teacher of the deaf who helped support him through his struggles as an artist. It consists of shapeless forms with a large eye in a landscape setting. In 1944 he was conscripted and sent to China in the months after the war, where he died of a fever, possibly due to malaria and dysentery, on the outskirts of Shanghai. In March - May 2007, a retrospective exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of Aimitsu's birth was held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
The recorded working language is Japanese. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are Yōga. Work by Aimitsu is recorded in the collections of Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, The National Museum of Modern Art, Nerima Art Museum, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka and Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art.
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• Name — Ai-Mitsu • Birth Name — Nichirō Ishimura • Born — 24 June 1907 • Birthplace — Hiroshima, Japan • Died — 19 January 1946 • Place of death — Shanghai, China • Field — Painting • Works — "Landscape with an Eye"
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