Hiromi Akiyama
Hiromi Akiyama ( Japanese 秋山 礼 巳 , Akiyama Hiromi ; born April 29, 1937 in Hiroshima ; † February 14, 2012 in Rheinzabern ) was a Japanese sculptor.
life and work
He studied at Musashino Art University in Tokyo from 1959 to 1963 . Then at the age of 29 he went to Paris, the then center of modern sculpture from Alexander Archipenko to Hans Arp to Constantin Brâncuși . He studied there from 1966 to 1968 at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts . In the summer of 1967 he took part in the sculpture symposium St. Margarethen in Burgenland . Akiyama took part in sculpture symposia in Nuremberg, St. Wendel, Rome, Vienna, Bad Kreuznach, Vancouver, Lindabrunn, Hachioji and Suwa in Japan. In 1978 he took on a teaching position at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and was appointed professor for sculpture in 1981. In 1983 he received the Defet Prize from the German Association of Artists . In the 1980s he took part in numerous art-in-building competitions .
Akiyama first gave his work a name in the 1990s. He played with the insides and shadows in his sculptures. This meant for him and he put it: "Sculpture is the shadow of another dimension".
At the age of 65, Professor Hiromi Akiyama left the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe after 24 years.
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions
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Participation in exhibitions
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Works in public collections (selection)
- Street of the Sculptures , St. Wendel
- Sculpture garden of the New Museum Nuremberg , Nuremberg
- VanDusen Botanical Garden , Vancouver, Canada
- Collection of contemporary art of the Federal Republic of Germany , Bonn
- Hakone Open Air Museum , Japan
- Hiroshima Contemporary Art Museum, Japan
- Hiroshima , Jimmy Carter Civic Center, Japan
- Kawasaki City, Japan
- Berlin-Marienfelde, Federal Health Office
- National Museum Bratislava, Slovakia
- University of Karlsruhe
- Kepler University Linz, Austria
- University of Kaiserslautern
- Municipal Gallery Karlsruhe
Akiyama students
Symposia
- 1967 St.Margarethen / Austria
- 1968 Vyzne-Ruzbachy / ČSSR
- 1969 Oggelshausen am Federsee
- 1970 Mauthausen / Austria
- 1971 Urbanum, Nuremberg
- St. Wendel
- 1972 Exercitium Rome / Italy
- 1974 Stephansplatz Vienna / Austria
- 1975 Bad Kreuznach
- Vancouver / Canada
- 1976 Lindabrunn / Austria
- 1978 Hachioji / Japan
- Suwa / Japan
- 1980 Lahr
- 1981 St. Wendel Sculpture Street
- 1982 University of Kaiserslautern
- 1983 Kawasaki / Japan
- 1986 Gaggenau
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hiromi Akiyama Sculptor with a text by Peter Anselm Riedl , Ed. Städtische Museen Heilbronn, 1997, ISBN 3-930811-64-2 , p. 125
- ↑ http://www.kunstweg-am-reichenbach.de/kuenstler/hiromi-akiyama.html
- ↑ Erika Rödiger-Diruf, Ursula Merkel: Hiromi Akiyama, Skulptur und Schatten, Ed. Förderkreis Städt.Galerie Karlsruhe, 1999, p. 35
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Marianne and Hansfried Defet Prize / 1983 Hiromi Akiyama, Karlsruhe ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 10, 2015)
- ↑ Erika Rödiger-Diruf, Ursula Merkel: Hiromi Akiyama. Sculpture and shadow. ed. Promotional Association Städt. Galerie Karlsruhe, 1999, ISBN 3-923344-45-7 , p. 36
- ↑ Erika Rödiger-Diruf, Ursula Merkel: Hiromi Akiyama. Sculpture and shadow. ed. Promotional Association Städt. Galerie Karlsruhe, 1999, ISBN 3-923344-45-7 , pp. 36–37
- ↑ Wolfgang Hartmann, Werner Pokorny: The sculpture symposium. Verlag Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-7757-0263-6 , pp. 127-146
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| SURNAME | Akiyama, Hiromi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 秋山 礼 巳 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hiroshima Prefecture |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 2012 |
| Place of death | Rheinzabern |