Hideaki Yamanobe is a contemporary Japanese abstract painter, best known for creating pallid, monochromatic works that employ light brushwork and composition to evoke veiled spaces. He has also been known to incorporate unusual media like sand into his works, as seen in Six Elements in Winter (2011). Born in 1964 in Tokyo, Japan, the artist went on to study at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Tokyo. He has exhibited with Galerie Florian Trampler in Munich, and his works can be found in the collections of the Ernst Wilhelm Nay Art Foundation in Cologne, the State Museum in Heilbronn, the Pola Art Foundation in Tokyo, and the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, among others. He lives and works between Cologne, Germany and Tokyo, Japan.