Kiyoshi Saito

Kiyoshi Saito was born on April 27, 1907 in Aizubange, Fukushima, Japan on the main island of Honshu. He became best known as a sosaku hanga printmaker in mid 20th century, most famous for his ""Winter in Aizu"" series of woodcuts, and he was one of the first Japanese printmaking artists to have won a prize at the Sao Paulo Biennale in 1951.His later work merged modern elements of modernism, cubism, abstraction, and impressionism with Japanese tradition, after having been influenced by famous modern artists such as Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Gauguin, and Edvard Munch.