Hayashi Tadamasa

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Hayashi Tadamasa

Hayashi Tadamasa ( Japanese 林 忠 正 ; * December 7, 1853 in Takaoka , Etchū Province (today: Toyama Prefecture ), Japan ; † April 10, 1906 in Japan) was a Japanese art dealer who sold Europe with traditional Japanese art, such as . B. made known to Ukiyo-e .

Life

Tadamasa came from a family of doctors in Nagasaki , but was adopted as a child by the noble Hayashi family of Han Toyama . He learned foreign languages ​​early and attended Tokyo University . In 1878 he came to Paris as an employed interpreter for the Japanese art dealer and auctioneer Wakai Kenzaburō for the world exhibition . Here he met personalities like the Goncourt brothers and decided to stay in Europe. Together with Japanese partners he founded a company for the import of works of art from the Far East and for Japanese prints and woodcuts.

Hayashi was the author of an edition of the Parisian magazine Paris Illustré in 1886 . The title page of the issue was used as a template for Vincent van Gogh's oil painting The Courtesan , which can now be seen in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam .

In order to prepare his home country for the World Exhibition in Paris in 1889 , Hayashi became a committed member of the Japanese commissariat. In 1890, Hayashi opened his own sales gallery in Paris, which became the focus of an artist community interested in Japonism . Among his acquaintances were artists like Edgar Degas , Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro , as well as the jeweler Vever.

In 1893 Hayashi showed at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, among other things, 12 bronzes with falcons by various Japanese artists. At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 , Hayashi was the general commissioner responsible for the Japanese pavilion. Here he was able to show various national treasures of his homeland, including the personal art collection of the ruling Tennō Meiji .

Hayashi had been known since the 1880s as a seller of East Asia and the author of contributions to exhibition catalogs and auction directories. He became the mediator of Impressionism in Japan and often traveled from Europe to Japan and died in his homeland on one of these trips.

Publications

• Foreword in: Histoire de l'art du Japon publié par la Commission impériale du Japon à l'Exposition Universelle de Paris, 1900. M. de Brunhoff, Paris 1900 ( digitized version ).

Catalogs of his collection

• Catalog d'une collection de gardes de sabres japonaises au Musée du Louvre. Don de Tadamasa Hayashi de Tokyo . Hayashi, Paris 1894.
• Catalog d'une collection de dessins et eaux-fortes by Paul Renouard. Cette collection est destinée à être offer par Tadamasa Hoyashi à un musée de Tokyo sur l'Art européen. Exposition à la Bodinière 18 rue Saint-Lazare du 17 au 31 May 1894 Gillot, Paris 1894.
• Siegfried Bing : Collection Hayashi. Objets d'art et peintures de la Chine et du Japon. Deuxième partie, dont la vente aura lieu du lundi 16 février au samedi 21 février 1903, à l ' Hôtel Drouot . Paris 1903 ( digitized ).
• Raymond Koechlin , Ernst Grosse , Raphaël Collin : Illustrated catalog of the important collection of paintings, water colors, pastels, drawings and prints collected by the Japanese connoisseur the late Tadamasa Hayashi of Tokyo, Japan . American Art Association, New York 1913 ( archive.org ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Musée d'Orsay

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