Annely Juda Fine Art is sad to announce the death of the renowned Japanese sculptor Katsura Funakoshi.
We were proud to work with Katura Funskoshi for over 30 years, hosting his first European exhibition in 1991. Funakoshi carved spiritual, figurative sculptures from camphor wood. His sculptures were painted in subtle tones that enhance both the characteristics of the wood and its ability to mimic human flesh. The figures are rarely actual likenesses but are intensely personal having the presence of real people: of body and of spirit.
Funakoshi was born in Morioka, northern Japan in 1951 and studied at Tokyo University of Art. He received many awards and exhibited in Japan, USA and Europe. In 2000 he had a major one-man exhibition at Annely Juda Fine Art, which toured to Kunsthalle Recklinghausen and Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Germany.
Katsura will be sadly missed, our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with his family.
