Abe Nobuya

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Abe Nobuya ( Japanese 阿 部 展 也 , real first name Yoshibumi ( 芳 文 ); born February 4, 1913 in Niigata Prefecture ; died May 7, 1971 in Rome ) was a Japanese painter of the Yōga direction and photographer of the Shōwa period .

life and work

Abe Nobuya was born in Niigata Prefecture but grew up in Tokyo. He dropped out of middle school in fourth grade and set out to study painting and photography. He was close to Surrealism and published in 1937 "Distance to Fairy Tales" ( 妖精 の 距離 , Yōsei no kyori ), a book with surrealist paintings for a collection of poems by Takiguchi Shūzō , which was published by the Shunchōkai. From 1932 he submitted his work to the "Society for Independent Art" ( 独立 美術 協会 , Dokuritsu bijutsu kyōkai ).

In 1939 Abe took part in the founding of the "Society for Art and Culture" ( 美術 文化 協会 , Bijutsu bunka kyōkai ), together with a group of surrealists around the painter Fukuzawa Ichirō . During the Pacific War he traveled to the northeastern area of ​​China, and in 1941 he stayed in the Philippines as a member of the press corps of the Japanese army.

After the war, Abe gained public attention with images such as “Adam and Eve” ( ア ダ ム と イ ヴ , Adamu to Ivu ; 1949) and “Hunger” ( 飢 え , Ue ; 1949). In 1953 he traveled to India to show his work at the 2nd Indian International Art Exhibition . Later he turned to abstract painting, and since the 1960s he has also created collages. - Abe was also active internationally and in 1957 became a member of the Executive Committee of the International League of Plastic Arts , took part in the Asia Artists' Conference in 1959 and was a juror for the 3rd Guggenheim Art Prize. After 1967 he was active as a photographer and designer in Europe. In 1969, at the invitation of the Yugoslav Republic, he went on a trip to Sarajevo, was in Bulgaria and Ireland, then stayed in Italy. He died in Rome in 1971 after a sudden illness.

Remarks

  1. ↑ This picture was shown at the exhibition Japanese Painting in Western Style 1985 in the Museum for East Asian Art in Cologne.

literature

  • Schaarschmidt-Richter, Irmtraud (Ed.): Abe Nobu . In: The other modern. Japanese painting from 1910 to 1970. Edition Stemmle, 1999. ISBN 3-908161-85-1 .
  • Japan Foundation (Ed.): Abe Nobuya . In: Japanese painting in the western style, 19th and 20th centuries. Exhibition catalog, Cologne, 1985.
  • Tazawa, Yutaka: Abe Nobuya . In: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art. Kodansha International, 1981. ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .

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Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Abe is the family name, Nobuya the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Abe, Nobuya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 阿 部 展 也 (stage name, Japanese); Abe Yoshibumi (real name); 阿 部 芳 文 (real name, Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese painter of the Yōga direction and photographer of the Shōwa period
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Niigata prefecture
DATE OF DEATH May 7th 1971
Place of death Rome