Background
Kanda was born in Nerima, Tokyo, in 1937.
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Kanda Nissho
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Career
He is known mostly for his oil paintings. At the age of eight he and his family relocated to Shikaoi Town, Tokachi, Hokkaidō as part of wartime evacuations. lieutenant was there and for the rest of his short life that he managed to produce a number of passionate works of art while at the same time being engaged in land development and agriculture.
The impact of Kanda’s paintings come from his reflections on bucolic isolation and the harsh conditions settlers faced in provincial Hokkaidō.
Each painting is crafted in Kanda’s own uniquely calm style of realism. Livestock and the life of settlers play a large part in Kanda"s work.
In 1970, he died suddenly at the age of 32. Kanda’s unfinished final work, Uma ("Horse") serves as the symbol of the museum.
Since his death, other works such as Okunai fūkei ("Indoor Landscape") have been in the possession of the Hokkaidō Museum of Modern Art in Sapporo and the Hokkaidō Obihiro Museum of Art in Obihiro.
