Ide Nobumichi

Ide Nobumichi ( Japanese 井 手 宣 通 ; born February 1, 1912 , in Mifune-chō, Kamimaki-gun in Kumamoto Prefecture ; died February 1, 1993 ) was a Japanese painter of the Yōga orientation in the Shōwa period .

life and work

Ide studied oil painting at the "Tōkyō bijtsu gakkō", the forerunner of the Geidai , among others with Fujishima Takeji . In 1933, during his training, his "fisherman with child" (漁夫 と 子 供, Gyofu to kodomo) was the first picture that he was able to exhibit at the 14th Teiten exhibition in Tōkyō. In 1935 he graduated from the art college and continued to study sculpture. In 1940 he received his diploma in this course as well. He had previously attracted attention at the Shinbunten exhibition in 1939 with the painting “Children on the Hill” (丘 の 子 供 た ち, Oka no kodomotachi) and received the Saburi Prize the following year. From 1934 on he also exhibited at the Kōfū-kai and became a member of this association. During the Pacific War he was a member of the Marine Press Corps and served in the South Pacific.

After the war, from 1954, Ide became a member of the jury for the Nitten exhibitions and then also for artists' associations that exhibited there. From 1955 to 1956, Ide traveled to Europe for study purposes. In 1962 he became a member of the Nitten supervisory board. In 1964, his painting "Fest am Kamo-Shrine" (加 茂 祭, Kamo matsuri), submitted to Nitten, was awarded the Minister of Education's prize, and in 1967 his work "Procession of the Ten Thousand" (千人 行列, Sennin gyōretsu) won the prize of the Academy of Arts . In 1969 Ide became a member of the Akademie der Künste and also one of the directors of the Nitten exhibition. In 1970 he became managing director and 1974 general director of Nitten. In 1977 he strove for an art movement that would return to representational painting. This led to the Nichiyōten exhibition series (日 洋 展), whose steering committee he headed himself. - In 1990 Ide was honored as a person with special cultural merits .

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} The exhibition series was initially called "Mombushō bijutsu tenrankai" (文部省 美術展 覧 会), abbreviated as colorful (文 展). From 1919 the successor institution was called the “Imperial Art Exhibition” (帝国 芸 術 展 覧 会, Teikoku bijutsu tenrankai), abbreviated Teiten (帝 展), and finally after 1945 the “Japanese Art Exhibition” (日本 芸 術 展 覧 会, Nihon bijutsu tenrankai) (日. Nitten)展).

literature

• Tazawa, Yutaka: Ide Nobumichi . In: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art . Kodansha International, 1981. ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .

Web links

• Oil painting "Afternoon" (1960)

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