Nguyễn Đỗ Cung Explained

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.^[1]

In 1963, Cung was entrusted with finding a site for a Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts, . He selected an abandoned Catholic girls boarding house, run as the Famille de Jean d'Arc, built in 1937.^[2] He was awarded the Ho Chi Minh Prize for fine art in 1996.

Notes and References

1. Vietnam Fine Arts Museum - Bảo tàng mỹ thuật Việt Nam - 2000 "Nguyễn Đỗ Cung was a painter whose heart was filled with hidden sadness and qualms before the Revolution. But in 1946, together with his colleagues TÔ Ngọc Vân and Nguyễn Thị Kim. he went to the Presidential palace to make a portrait ."
2. Nora A. Taylor Painters in Hanoi: an ethnography of Vietnamese art - Page 56 2009 "In 1963 the Bao Tang My Thuat Viet Nam (Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts) was founded to house what were considered national art treasures. Nguyen Do Cung, who had taken an interest in design since his days as a student of the EBAI, "