Higashiyama Kaii

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Higashiyama Kaii
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Higashiyama Kaii ( Japanese 東山 魁 夷 ; * July 8, 1908 in Yokohama ; † May 6, 1999 ) was an internationally known Japanese landscape painter in the Nihonga style. Many of his works can be seen in the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo as well as in Nagano .

Life

After childhood and youth in Kobe , he finished studying Japanese painting in 1931 at the Tōkyō Art School, which later became the Tōkyō Art School . From 1933 to 1935, Kaii studied art history at the University of Berlin and often visited the area to paint the landscape. Higashimaya was impressed by German romanticism and introduced Caspar David Friedrich in Japan.

Works and painting techniques

His paintings are clearly structured, receive a wealth of details through extremely fine brushstrokes and fine color shades, but appear overall stylized but natural and exude calm.

Higashiyama also uses the traditional kirikane technique very discreetly in which gold and silver dust is applied. As in the study for a mural for the imperial palace , this leads to particularly bright colors, in the true sense of the word golden-yellow sandy beach and silver wave spray can be seen here. This technique is also used in the work Echo from 1958, which shows strongly stylized branches, but is only noticeable on closer inspection.

A better-known work is Der Weg from 1950, which depicts nothing more than a path in a green landscape, but thanks to the special painting technique it has an extremely lively transparency with a high level of detail (traces of the road, pebbles, blades of grass). Higashiyama appeared internationally on January 12, 1985, when he participated in the Global Art Fusion project together with Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys . This was an intercontinental FAX-ART project initiated by the concept artist Ueli Fuchser, in which a fax with drawings by all three artists was sent around the world within 32 minutes and received in the Museum of Modern Art in the Palais-Liechtenstein in Vienna. This fax was intended to send a message of peace during the Cold War .

His works can mainly be found in museums in Nagano , Kobe and next to the Seto Bridge in Kagawa , but they also adorn the Japanese Imperial Palace and Japanese places of worship such as the Tōshōdai-ji in Nara . His painting Tal im Nebel (1989) is in the possession of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst (Berlin) as a gift .

Higashiyama is an honorary citizen of Ichikawa City . There is also its own memorial site, the Higashiyama Kaii Memorial Hall .

Awards

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Web links (images)

At the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo :

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Individual evidence

  1. The Higashiyama Kaii Gallery is part of the Nagano Prefecture Art Museum in Nagano .
  2. ^ André Chahil: Vienna 1985: Phenomenon Fax Art. Beuys, Warhol and Higashiyama set an example for the Cold War. . accessed on October 14, 2015.
  3. The Japanese Memory