20 Facts About Luis Nishizawa

Luis Nishizawa Flores was a Mexican artist known for his landscape work and murals, which often show Japanese and Mexican influence.

Luis Nishizawa began formal training as an artist in 1942 at the height of the Mexican muralism movement but studied other painting styles as well as Japanese art.

Luis Nishizawa Flores was born on February 2,1918, at the San Mateo Ixtacalco Hacienda in the Cuautitlan municipality of the State of Mexico.

The family moved to Mexico City in 1925, where Nishizawa learned to create jewelry and studied music with a teacher named Rodolfo Halfter.

Luis Nishizawa learned to paint landscapes as well as abstract art and graphics with an interest in the art tradition of Japan.

Either as teachers or working for them as assistants, Luis Nishizawa had various mentors such as Jose Maria Velasco, Julio Castellanos, Jose Chavez Morado, Alfredo Zalce and Benjamin Correa.

Luis Nishizawa received his master's degree in fine arts in 1947.

Luis Nishizawa married Eva Zepeda in 1964, with whom he had four children.

On Monday, September 29,2014, Luis Nishizawa died in Toluca, Mexico at age 96.

Luis Nishizawa was a painter, engraver, graphic artist, sketch artist and ceramicist.

Luis Nishizawa is considered to have been one of Mexico's best landscape artists, known for his paintings of volcanoes.

Luis Nishizawa's works have been exhibited in the Museo de Arte Moderno for over forty years, but most of his works can be found in the permanent collection of the Museo Taller Nishizawa.

Luis Nishizawa created murals, paintings, drawings, ceramic and glass pieces and sculpture.

Luis Nishizawa's works are held in private collections in Mexico, Japan and the United States.

Luis Nishizawa participated in numerous individual and collective exhibitions in Mexico and abroad, with his first individual exhibition in 1951.

Over his career, Luis Nishizawa employed various techniques and styles in his work, with some of his best known work being in ink.

Luis Nishizawa is one of few painters who draws as an end rather than just a means.

Luis Nishizawa received recognition from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, as a judge for the Premio Universidad Nacional, receiving an honorary doctorate from the school in 1996 and named Master Emeritus as well.

Luis Nishizawa was honored various times by the State of Mexico, which created the Museo Taller Luis Nishizawa in an old mansion near the Palacio de Gobierno in Toluca.

The Museo Taller Luis Nishizawa was inaugurated in 1992 in a mansion from the end of the 18th century in Toluca, restored for its current purpose.