Eici Sonoda

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Eici Sonoda ( Japanese 園田 英 一 朗 , Sonoda Eiichirō ; * September 23, 1958 in Tokyo ; † December 4, 2015 in Berlin ) was a German - Japanese painter specializing in urban plein-air painting ( open -air painting ). In 2001 he initiated the Berlin producer gallery Galerie Kraftwerk and was a co-founder of the Kunstverein Kraftwerk e. V. He presented his works in the Café Kōhi (Japanese for English coffee ) in Berlin-Mitte, which he runs .

Training and work history

Eici Sonoda was born as the son of the Japanese pianist Takahiro Sonoda (1928-2004). He stayed with his parents in West Berlin from 1959 to 1961 , and in 1977 he graduated from high school in Hohenbaden Baden-Baden . Sonoda was self-taught and a student of the Japanese plein air painters Hiroshi Kasukabe , Yukichi Kouge and Takashi Yamashita . In the 1970s he took numerous painting trips "against the will of his parents with a backpack and a raised thumb" to southern France, Paris, Andalusia, Florence, Venice, Tunisia, Switzerland, Tokyo and Hamburg.

In addition to classic landscape painting, which originated in Provence , on the Côte d'Azur or in Tuscany , Eici Sonoda was drawn to urban centers again and again, especially Berlin before and after reunification. Since 1978 Sonoda's pictures have been shown in numerous exhibitions, including in Berlin and Baden-Baden.

Plein-air painting with Berlin motifs

Sonoda also saw his work as a plea for the artistic equivalence of Berlin motifs with city views of other major European cities: “Unfortunately, the view seems to be widespread that almost every other city is more suitable for painting than Berlin. What is it now, the obviously picturesque, as it is e.g. B. Paris has to offer with the wonderfully colored gray tones, is that what Berlin lacks? But isn't this apparent integrity and grown structure of other European metropolises also monotonous? "

Sonoda considered the German capital to be "unique in the mixture of people and material, the styles of Eastern and Southern European culture they formed" and was particularly interested in the "diversity of the old and new city centers."

A large part of Sonoda's pictures were not created in the studio, but directly on site, which was also an important aspect of the creation process for the artist: “Street painting allows you to understand the limits of decent painting, despite all respect for the old masters as far as the method is concerned . You only encounter the here and now on the street, be it the weather that changes unexpectedly, or a passer-by requesting feedback in rush hour or at a late hour, not only at night are all people black. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 園 田高弘 . In: www.takahiro-sonoda.com. Retrieved December 16, 2015 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ see also the alternative domain http://www.eiichiro-sonoda.de/
  3. ↑ Takahiro Sonoda (1928–2004) In: bach-cantatas.com. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b c d Eici Sonoda - Vita. In: eici-sonoda.de. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  5. ↑ Eici Sonada. ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: artkreuzberg.de. Retrieved December 7, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / artkreuzberg.de
personal data
SURNAME Sonoda, Eici
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 園 田英 一 朗 (Japanese); Sonoda Eiichirō
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Japanese painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 2015
Place of death Berlin