Exhibition of Japanese Painting from 1910 to 1970
The exhibition “The other modern. Japanese Painting from 1910 to 1970 ” was shown as part of the events on“ Japan in Germany 1999–2000 ”from September 12 to October 24, 1999 in the Chemnitz Art Collections and from January 18 to March 18, 2000 in the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt . Works by 26 Japanese artists born between 1884 and 1936 were on view.
To the exposition
After the exhibition Japanese Painting in Western Style 1985, the exhibition can be understood as a further counterpart to the exhibition Japanese Painting in 1931 . Whereas in 1931 it was about the painters in the “Japanese style” ( Nihonga ), Japanese painters in the “western style” could be seen in Frankfurt and Chemnitz. These painters increasingly broke away from their western models and developed their personal style.
The catalog that was published for the exhibition is 207 pages. It begins with a thank you from the museum directors Ingrid Mössinger and Hellmut Seemann and a greeting from Fujii Hiroaki, President of the Japan Foundation. The contributions then follow
- The Japanese Way to Modernity (Irmgard Schaarschmidt-Richter)
- An exception (Sakai Tadayasu (酒井 忠 康; * 1941), art critic, museum director)
- The emergence of abstract expression: the possibilities of Japanese art in the years after 1910 (Mizusawa Tsutomu (水 沢 勉; * 1952), art critic, museum director)
- Japanese surrealism in the last half of the 30s: "Space of shapeless matter" and "Space of macroscopic living beings" (Ozaki Shinzin)
- Japanese art in the 50s and 60s surrounded by a transparent wall (Matsumoto Tōru)
According to the authors, Japanese modernism differs from the western one in its specific understanding of nature.
Pictures in Cologne
Yorozu: "Untitled", 1913
Onchi: "Bright time", 1915
Matsumoto: Self
Nishimura: Cosmos, 1916
Ishigaki: "KKK", 1936
Kitawaki: Autumn Apparition, 1945
The exhibited artists
- Nishimura Isaku (1884–1963): 2
- Yorozu Tetsugorō (1885–1927): 3
- Onchi Kōshirō (1891–1955): 5
- Ishigaki Eitarō (1893-1958): 3
- Kambara Tai (1898-1997): 4
- Kitawaki Noboru (1901-1951): 4
- Yamaguchi Takeo (1902-1983): 5
- Saitō Yoshishige (1904–2001): 3
- Murai Masanari (1905-1999): 4
- Yoshihara Jirō (1905–1972): 5
- Hasegawa Saburō (1906–1967): 3
- Ai-Mitsu (1907-1946): 2
- Ei-Kyū (1911–1960): 3
- Okamoto Tarō (1911–1996): 2
- Furuzawa Iwami (1912-2000): 29
- Matsumoto Shunsuke (1912–1948): 5
- Onosato Toshinobu (1912–1986): 3
- Abe Nobuya (1913–1971): 3
- Katsura Yuki (1913-1991): 2
- Sugai Kumi (1919-1996): 4
- Iida Yoshikuni (1923-2006): 5
- Shiraga Kazuo (1924-2008): 2
- Maeda Josaku (1926-2007): 2
- Tanaka Atsuko (1932-2005): 2
- Ishii Shigeo (1933–1962): 1
- Takamatsu Jirō (1936–1998): 4
Catalog
- Schaarschmidt-Richter, Irmtraud (Ed.): The other modern. Japanese painting from 1910 to 1970. Edition Stemmle, 1999. ISBN 3-908161-85-1 .
literature
- Tazawa, Yutaka: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art . Kodansha International, 1981. ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .
- Laurance P. Roberts: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists . Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .
Remarks
- ↑ It is the series "Shuragai" in the format 25 × 18 cm.