Kanō Hōgai

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Kanō Hōgai
Merciful Kannon ( 悲 母 観 音 , Hibo Kannon ), 1888.

Kanō Hōgai ( Japanese 狩 野 芳 崖 ; born February 27, 1828 , died November 5, 1888 ; actual name Kōtarō ( 幸 太郎 )) was one of the last Japanese painters of the Kanō school . He contributed significantly to the development of painting in the Nihonga style.

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Hōgai was born in Yamaguchi as the son of the painter Kanō Seiko, who had been a student of Kanō Isen'in Naganobu (1775-1828) and then served as the official painter of the Mōri clan .

Hōgai came to Edo in 1854 and attended the Kobikichō school and studied under Kanō Shōsen'in Masanobu ( 狩 野 勝 川 院 正 信 ; 1823-1880). He then painted under the stage name Shōkai ( 勝 海 ) until the unrest before the Meiji Restoration made painting impossible. In the ten years after 1868, when all Kanō schools lost their privileges, Hōgai struggled with preliminary drawings for decorations on porcelain and lacquer work. In 1882 and 1884 he was seen with landscapes at the "Inner Japan Art Promotion Exhibition" ( 内 国 絵 画 共進 会 , Naikoku kaiga kyōshinkai ). Ernest Fenollosa visited him together with Okakura Tenshin in order to win him over to the further development of the painting of the Kanō school . Together with Hashimoto Gahō , they founded the "image viewing society " ( 鑑 画 会 , Kangakai ). Hōgai was then also involved in the preparations for the establishment of a state college of art, but died before it was founded in 1889.

Like Hashimoto, Hōga integrated western elements into his painting, such as perspective and shading, which had been unusual in Japan up to that point. In addition to landscape painting, he also dealt with Buddhist subjects, occasionally using strong colors.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Owned by the Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku . An earlier display is in the Freer and Sackler Galleries, USA.

literature

  • Tokyo National Museum (Ed.) The 100th Anniversary of the Japan Art Institute. The Lineage of Modern Japanese Art. 1998 catalog
  • Tazawa Yutaka: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art . Kodansha International, 1981. ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .
  • Laurence P. Roberts: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kanō, Hōgai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 狩 野 芳 崖 (Japanese); 狩 野 幸 太郎 (real name, Japanese); Kanō Kōtarō (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1828
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1888