About Nguyễn Đỗ Cung
Lived 1912 – 1977 (aged 64–65). Nguyễn Đỗ Cung was a Vietnamese painter and politician.
Nguyễn Đỗ Cung (1912 - 22 September 1977) was a Vietnamese artist. He was a student of EBAI in Hanoi. In 1946, he was one of the first, with Tô Ngọc Vân and Nguyễn Thị Kim to make portraits of Ho Chi Minh.
In 1963, Cung was entrusted with finding a site for a Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts (:vi:Bảo tàng mỹ thuật Việt Nam). He selected an abandoned Catholic girls boarding house, run as the Famille de Jean d'Arc, built in 1937. He was awarded the Ho Chi Minh Prize for fine art in 1996.
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Who was Nguyễn Đỗ Cung?
painter (1912-1977)
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Nguyễn Đỗ Cung was born in 1912 in Từ Liêm.
When did Nguyễn Đỗ Cung die?
Nguyễn Đỗ Cung died on 22 September 1977.
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Nguyễn Đỗ Cung was a painter and politician.
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Nguyễn Đỗ Cung was Vietnamese.
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