About Shizuka Murayama
Lived 1918 – 2013 (aged 94). Shizuka Murayama was a French painter and artist.
was a Japanese-French yōga painter.
Born in Ohara Village (present day Itako), Ibaraki Prefecture, Murayama started to study watercolor painting under Susumu Kobori. After moving to Tokyo, he enrolled at the private .
In the latter half of the 1950s, he moved to France, the citizenship of which he acquired in 1981.
Awards Prix Charles de Gaulle (1962). Médaille d'honneur du travail (vermeil) and Honorary citizen of Paris (1991) Honorary citizen of Itako, Ibarako Prefecture, Japan (1991) Grande Medaille d'Or of the Académie des Beaux-Arts (1995) Special Award for People of Merit of Ibaraki Prefecture (1996) Chevalier (knight) of the Legion of Honour (1997)
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Who was Shizuka Murayama?
French painter (1918-2013)
When was Shizuka Murayama born?
Shizuka Murayama was born on 26 October 1918 in Itako.
When did Shizuka Murayama die?
Shizuka Murayama died on 22 October 2013 in 5th arrondissement of Paris.
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Shizuka Murayama was a painter and artist.
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Shizuka Murayama was French.
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