Fujimori Shizuo

Self-portrait 1916

Fujimori Shizuo ( Japanese 藤森 静 雄 ; born August 1, 1891 in Kurume , Fukuoka Prefecture ; † May 28, 1943 ) was a Japanese woodcut artist of the Sōsaku-hanga direction.

life and work

Fujimori attended the Hakuba-kai ( 白馬 会 ) art school in 1910 , where he met the woodcut artist Tanaka Kyōkichi ( 田中 恭 吉 ; 1892-1915). From 1911 he attended the department for western painting of the state training center Nihon Bijutsu Gakkō (today Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku ), where he studied under Kuroda Seiki and Fujishima Takeji . He was also influenced by Aoki Shigeru , who like him came from Kurume. As early as 1913, Fujimori began to make woodcuts under the influence of Tanaka and Onchi Koshiro . The three published a magazine for literature and art under the name "Mondglanz" ( 月 映 , Tsukuhae ), for which he contributed a total of 37 black and white prints in an expressionist manner.

In 1916 Fujimori finished his education, taught in middle schools in Taiwan and in his homeland in Fukuoka. He then returned to Tokyo and worked as a painter, woodcut artist and illustrator. In 1918 he was involved in the founding of the "Japanese Society for Creative Woodblock Printing " ( 日本 創作 版画 協会 , Nihon sōsaku hanga kyōkai ), in which he exhibited in 1919. In 1931 he participated in the founding of the "Japanese Society for Woodcut" ( 日本 版画 協会 , Nihon hanga kyōkai ). Fujimori remained friends with Onchi and was with him one of the artists for the woodcut series "Hundred New Views of Tokyo" ( 新 東京 百 景 , Shin Tōkyō hyakkei ), which appeared from 1929 to 1939 and for which he created 13 sheets. These sheets show a less expressionistic, more realistic style.

In 1931 Fujimori produced his own series, the "Twelve Views of Greater Tokyo" ( 大 東京 十二 景 , Dai-Tōkyō jūni-kei ). From 1936 he produced woodcut illustrations for the Asahi newspaper in Fukuoka. From 1926 to 1937 he participated in the exhibitions of the artists' association Shun'yō-kai ( 春陽 会 ). In 1938 he published the first nine prints of a series "New Hundred Views of Japan" ( 新 日本 百 景 , Shin Nihon hyakkei ). A year later he retired to Iizuka ( Fukuoka Prefecture ), where he died in 1943.

Fujimori occasionally signed early prints with "SIZ".

gallery

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  "Back light"

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  "Sun"

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  "Nature and Life"

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  "A walking person"

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  "Horizon"

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  Kabuki theater

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  Red Gate

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  Yasukuni shrine

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  Ueno train station

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} From "Tsukuhae".

Remarks

1. ↑ An entrance to the Tokyo University campus .
2. ↑ With the statue of Ōmura Masujirō .

literature

• Laurance P. Roberts: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .

Web links

• Fujimori in the Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints

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