Fudō Ritsuzan

Fudō Ritsuzan ( Japanese 不 動 立 山 , actually Fudō Sadaichi (不 動 定 一), born April 18, 1886 in Nishiawaji, Mihara County, Hyōgo Prefecture , died August 14, 1975 ) was a Japanese painter of the Nihonga direction during the Taishō and Shōwa -Time .

life and work

Fudō Ritsuzan graduated in 1905 from the painting department of the "Technical School for Art and Applied Arts Kyōto" (京都 市立 美術 工 芸 学校, Kyōto shiritsu bijutsu kōgei gakkō) and continued to study at the "Special School for Painting Kyōto" (京都 市立 絵 画 専 門 学校, Kyōto shiritsu kaiga semmon gakkō), from which he graduated in 1912. In the same year his pictures “Late Winter Evening” (冬 の 夜 更, Fuyu no yofuke) and “Spring Rain in the Evening” (春雨 の 夕, Harusame no yube) were accepted for the 6th “Colorful”. He then trained with Nishiyama Suishō (1879-1958), a painter in the "Western style" ( Yōga ) and continued to exhibit at the Bunter until he joined the Mitsuritsu-kai (密 栗 会) in 1915 to create his own style Ways to go.

He now painted genre pictures in the ukiyoe style, then dealt with contemporary landscape paintings. He combined precise image capture with lyrical rendering. When in 1921 Nishiyama the painting school "Seikōsha" (青 甲 社) founded, Fudō participated in her. In the same year he exhibited the picture “Old Imperial Tomb” (古 陵, Koryū) on the 3rd “Teiten” and continued to take part in the exhibition. From 1933, his pictures were accepted without a jury. In 1942 he went back to his homeland on Awajishima .

After the Pacific War he became a member of the jury for the “Nitten”, but did not exhibit any more. Instead, he created Fusuma-e (襖 絵), d. i.e., he painted wooden sliding doors in the temple rooms. From 1973 he lived again in Kyoto, died in the house that his son had left him.

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Bunten is the abbreviation for the annual state art exhibition (文 展) for Mombushō bijutsu tenrankai ( 文部省 美術展 覧 会 ) from 1907 to 1918, Teiten ( 帝 展 ) is the abbreviation for follow-up facility (帝国美術展 覧 会 , Teikoku bijutsu -in tenrankai ) between 1919 and 1935. The successor from 1936 to 1944 was again called Bunter, a shin (新) for "new" was added to distinguish it. Since 1946, the exhibition has been called Nitten for ( 日本 美術展 覧 会 , Nihon bijutsu-in tenrankai ) , no longer state-owned .

Web links (images)

• "Evening shower" (夕 立, Yūdachi) 1930 ( Kyōto National Museum of Modern Art )
• "Glutasche" (余燼, Jojin) 1931 ( Kyōto National Museum of Modern Art )
• "Landscape" (山水, Sansui) 1942 ( National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo )

literature

• National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (ed.): Fudō Ritsuzan . In: Kyōto no Nihonga 1910–1930. National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 1986. ISBN 4-87642-117-X .

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Fudō is the family name, Ritsuzan the first name.