Background
Kongo Abe was born in 1908 in Iwate Prefecture, Japan.
Kongo Abe was born in 1908 in Iwate Prefecture, Japan.
In 1925 he studied under Saburosuke Okada and went to France for further study.
His painting works show surrealistic tendencies. He joined the Nika-kai, a group of painters, in 1947.