Hiromi Akiyama

b. 29 April 1937 in Hiroshima (J), d. 14 February 2012 in Rheinzabern (D); Japanese sculptor

1959-1963	Studied at Musashino Art University in Tokyo. Subsequently, at the age of 29, he went to Paris, then the centre of modern sculpture as exemplified by the likes of Alexander Archipenko, Hans Arp and Constantin Brâncuși.
1966-1968	Studied at the École nationale des Beaux-Arts
1967	Participation in the sculpture symposium in St. Margarethen in Burgenland
1978	Teaching post at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
1981	Professor of sculpture
1983	Defet Prize of the Deutscher Künstlerbund
1980s	Participation in numerous per cent for art competitions

Further sculpture symposia in Nuremberg, St. Wendel, Rome, Vienna, Bad Kreuznach, Vancouver, Lindabrunn, Hachioji and Suwa in Japan.