Kambara Tai

Kambara Tai ( Japanese 神 原 泰 , first name originally read Yasushi ; born 1898 in Sendai ; died March 28, 1997 in Yokohama ) was a Japanese poet, art critic and, at the end of the Taishō period, at times a painter with abstract pictorial design.

life and work

Kambara was born in Sendai, but the family soon moved to Tōkyō. Kambara Tai initially emerged as a poet writer, but then turned to painting and in 1917 submitted pictures for the exhibition of the artists' association Nika-kai ( 二 科 会 ). In 1920 he published "Kambara Tai's first manifesto" ( 第一 回 神 原 泰 宣言 書 , Dai-ikkai Kambara Tai sengen-sho ).

In 1920, together with Koga Harue , Nakagawa Kigen ( 中 川 紀元 ; 1892–1972), Yokoyama Junnosuke ( 横山 潤 之 助 ; 1903–1971) and others, he founded the artists' association “Aktion” ( ア ク シ ョ ン , Akushon ), which formed in 1924 in the group “ Future Wings of Art ”( 未来 派 美術 協会 , Mirai-ha bijutsu kyōkai ), abbreviated to“ MAVO ”( マ ヴ ォ ), rose. Then he founded the association "Sanka" ( 三 科 ) and in 1925 the association "Gestaltung" ( 造形 , Zōkei ), from which he withdrew in 1927. That was also the time when he withdrew from painting activities. Kambara exchanged letters with the futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti , wrote numerous publications, a. a. to futurism. In 1990 he donated his material on Picasso and the Futurists to the Ōhara Art Museum as the "Kambara Tai Library" .

On the other hand, Kambara was later active in the field of petroleum. For his work on petroleum statistics, he received the “Ōuchi Prize” ( 大 内 賞 , Ōuchi-shō ), awarded for the first time in 1978 , named after the economist Ōuchi Hyōe ( 大 内 兵衛 , 1888–1980). He was also head of the Japanese Committee of the World Oil Conference.

literature

• Schaarschmidt-Richter, Irmtraud (Ed.): Kambara Tai . In: The other modern. Japanese painting from 1910 to 1970. Edition Stemmle, 1999. ISBN 3-908161-85-1 .
• Laurance P. Roberts: Kambara Tai . In: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .

Web links (images)

At the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo :

• Picture for "Le Poème de l'Extase" by Skrjabin, 1923 ( Alexander Nikolajewitsch Skrjabin )
• Notes from a Pessimist C, 1923

Web links

• CV (Tobunken), Japanese

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