Ei-Q

Also known as Hideo Sugita, Eikyū, Kyu Ei, Kyū Ei, Ei Kyu, Eiku, Hideo Sugihara, Eikyu

was a Japanese artist who worked in a variety of media, including photography and engraving.

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Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: Empire of Japan
Place of birth: Miyazaki
Place of death: Tokyo
Occupation: Esperantist
Languages spoken: Esperanto
Movement: abstract art

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has works in the collection: The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
date of birth: 1911-04-28
date of death: 1960-03-10
name in native language: 瑛九
Commons Creator page: Ei-Kyū
Commons category: Ei-Kyū
start of work period: 1930-01-01
end of work period: 1940-01-01

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was a Japanese artist who worked in a variety of media, including photography and engraving.

==Life and career== Ei-Q, whose early work was done under his real name of Hideo Sugita (, Sugita Hideo), was born in Miyazaki-machi (now Miyazaki City), Miyazaki Prefecture on April 28, 1911. In 1925 Sugita entered an art school in Tokyo to study western-style painting, and his criticism of western art started appearing in the art magazines Atelier and Mizue in 1927, in which year he also left the school. In 1930 he entered a photography school and from then on pursued both painting and photography and more particularly photograms, first experimenting briefly with these in 1930, then dropping them in pursuit of painting, and then returning to them in 1936.

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