Friedrich Capelari

Friedrich Capelari (born April 12, 1884 in Bleiburg ; † June 23, 1950 ibid), also known as Fritz Capelari , was an Austrian painter and xylograph .

biography

His father was a decorative wood carver. Friedrich Capelari became interested in the art of woodcut early on .

He stayed for years in Japan, China, Java and other places and made numerous trips to Western and Southern Europe. Some of his works were influenced by East Asian masters.

Capelari was in Japan at the outbreak of World War I and was therefore unable to return home. In the spring of 1915, the artist Shōzaburō Watanabe saw an exhibition of Capelari's watercolors in a department store. Watanabe found Capelari's style suitable for wood engravings and asked him to make a design for a print. Both were happy with the collaboration and worked on 12 prints. Pine trees by the moat showed a traditional ukiyo-e theme, but it was clearly stylized in a modern way. This was an important step towards more clearly distinguishing shin-hanga as a new wood printing form.

Watanabe published another print by Capelari in 1918 and 1920. The subject of the first print was school children in the rain. Other areas dealt with women and children, moral painting and landscapes .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Capelari, Friedrich. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 136.
2. ^ Marius Gombrich: Shin hanga bringing ukiyo-e back to life (English) . In: Japan Times . Retrieved July 20, 2014. 
3. ↑ Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975 in the Google Book Search USA

literature

• People's newspaper, Klagenfurt from June 29, 1950
• W. Frodl, in: R. Niederl, Kärnten, 1950, p. 221f.