Hasegawa Kiyoshi

Hasegawa Kiyoshi ( Japanese 長谷川 潔 ; born December 9, 1891 in Yokohama ; died December 13, 1980 in Paris) was a Japanese graphic artist of the Taishō and Shōwa period .

life and work

Hasegawa Kiyoshi, born in Yokohama, studied drawing and oil painting under Okada Saburōsuke and Fujishima Takeji at the Hakubakai (白馬 会) training center in Aoibashi. From 1912 he worked with wood carving and in the following year with copperplate engraving. In order to learn more about artistic techniques, however, he traveled to the USA and France in 1919, where he trained in painting and dealt with printing techniques.

Hasegawa stayed in France and in 1924 revived a long-forgotten technique, the manière noir, also known as mezzotint . He refined the technology and created his own graphic style, which is characterized by a special harmony of black and white. In the following years he found international recognition. In 1935 Hasegawa received the Order of the Legion of Honor for his work in the Franco-Japanese cultural exchange and in 1966 the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres . He was a member of the Société du Salon d'Automne , in the Société Peintres Gravures de France, in the Shunyō-kai (春陽 会) and the Nihon Hanga Kyōkai (日本 版画 協会). He stayed in Paris all his life and died there at the age of 89.

Hasegawa's representative works include “Eiffel Tower and French Airplane” (エ ッ フ ェ ル 塔 と フ ラ ン ス の 飛行 船, Efferu tō to Furansu no hikōsen), “Oranges and grapes” (オ レ ン ジ と 葡萄, Orenji. ン ジ の モ, Orenji ), “Spring flowers, autumn flowers in a vase”, (コ ッ プ に 然 し た る 春 、 秋草 花, Koppu ni sashitaru haru, aki kusabana) and “Time” (時, Toki).

literature

• Tazawa, Yutaka: Hasegawa Kiyoshi . In: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art. Kodansha International, 1981. ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .
• Laurance P. Roberts: Hasegawa Kiyoshi . In: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .

Web links (images)

• "Old village in southern France (Mouans-Sartoux)" (南 仏 古村 (ム ー ア ン ・ サ ル ト ゥ ー)), 1926
• “Two anemones” (二 つ の ア ネ モ ネ), 1934
• "Time" (時), 1969

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Hasegawa is the family name, Kiyoshi the first name.