Inoue Yūichi

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Inoue Yūichi ( Japanese 井上 有 一 ; born February 14, 1916 in Tokyo , Japan , † June 15, 1985 in Tokyo) was a Japanese painter and calligrapher .

Life

Inoue was one of the most important exponents of modern art and avant-garde calligraphy in Japan in the 20th century. The advocates of this avant-garde and abstract direction freed calligraphy from its literary-textual nature and instead designed the characters as pure forms. This art encountered Western art in the 19th century and, after the Second World War, was combined with Western Abstract Expressionism with the crucial difference that Inoue always depicts Sino-Japanese characters: in the early phase individual characters, in the late phase text pages.

He worked as a primary school teacher from 1935 to 1976. From 1942 to 1950 Yūichi Inoue studied calligraphy with Sokyu Ueda (1899–1986). In 1951 Yūichi had his first solo exhibition of his calligraphy in Tokyo. In 1952 he founded the Bokujin-kai - Society for Calligraphy - with artist friends . Inoue was a participant in documenta 2 in Kassel in 1959 . His works have been shown in numerous exhibitions around the world.

Inoue died in 1985 of complications from hepatitis .

Exhibitions

(Selection)

  • 1954 Modern Japanese Calligraphy , Museum of Modern Art , New York
  • 1955 Bokujin-kai Group , Colette Allendy Gallery, Paris / Apollo Gallery, Brussels .
  • 1955–56 Abstract Art - Japan and the USA , National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / L'encre de chine dans la calligraphie et l'art japonais contemporains (traveling exhibition for Amsterdam , Basel , Paris , Hamburg and Rome )
  • 1957 4th São Paulo Biennale
  • 1958 50 ans d'art modern , Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
  • 1959 documenta 2 , Kassel
  • 1961 6th São Paulo Biennale / Carnegie International, Pittsburgh / Yūichi Inoue Galerie Zwirner, Cologne
  • 1963 Writing and image , Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam / Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
  • 1965 Inoue Yuichi Galerie Zwirner, Cologne / Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
  • 1969 Modern World Art , National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
  • 1984 Yu-ichi Wortbilder , UNAC Tokyo
  • 1986 YU-ICHI - Farewell Thoughts, NEWZ, Tokyo / YU-ICHI lives, SEED Halle, Tokyo
  • 1987 YU-ICHI - Hundred Flowers , Parco Gallery, Tokyo
  • 1989 YU-ICHI - Works 1955–1985 , traveling exhibition through six museums in Japan
  • 1992 The Greatness of Poverty , Azabu Museum, Tokyo
  • 1993 JAPAN ART, Frankfurt: YU-ICHI, works on paper, Art Frankfurt
  • 1994–1995 Screams against the Sky, Japanese Art after 1945, Modernism and Transition , Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama / Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York / Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
  • 1995 YU-ICHI , Kunsthalle Basel
  • 1995–1996 YU-ICHI exhibition project: Series of the characters HIN Gallery of the Tianjin Renmin Meishu Chubanshe, Tianjin , China / Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt am Main / Gallery in the Karmeliterkloster Frankfurt am Main / YU-ICHI Kantan-fu , Japan Art Gallery Friedrich Müller, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1996–1997 YU-ICHI works on paper , Japan Art - Galerie Friedrich Müller, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2003 “Inexpressibly beautiful.” The mystical paradox in the art of the 20th century , Kunsthalle Erfurt
  • 2012 Works on paper: Yu-Ichi , Japart Art Gallery Friedrich Müller, Frankfurt am Main.

literature

  • Exhibition catalog for documenta II (1959) in Kassel: II.documenta'59. Art after 1945 . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting; Volume 2: Sculpture; Volume 3: Graphic Art; Text tape. Kassel / Cologne 1959
  • Yuichi Inoue - Calligraphies , Catalog Wuppertal, 1965
  • Exhibition catalog: YU-ICHI, works on paper , Japan Art Galerie Frankfurt, 1993
  • Video film YU-ICHI. Scribo Ergo Sum , UNAC Tokyo, 1994
  • Exhibition catalog: YU-ICHI , Kunsthalle Basel, 1995
  • Exhibition catalog: YU-ICHI Exhibition project: Series of the characters HIN Gallery of the Tianjin Renmin Meishu Chubanshe, Tianjin, Frankfurt am Main 1995
  • Catalog of works: YU-ICHI catalog raisonné, UNAC Tokyo, vol I – III 1996–2001

Web links (graphic)

Examples from the holdings of the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art :

Web links

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Inoue is the family name, Yūichi the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Inoue, Yūichi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES YU-ICHI
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese painter and calligrapher
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo , Japan
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1985
Place of death Tokyo , Japan