Kanashima Keika

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Kanashima Keika ( Japanese 金 島 桂華 , actual first name: Seita (政 太), also read Shōta or Masata; born June 29, 1892 in Kannabe (神 辺 町) in Hiroshima Prefecture ; died September 14, 1974 ) was a Japanese painter of the Nihonga direction of the Taishō and Shōwa periods .

life and work

Kanashima began studying painting in the Nihonga style under Nishike Keishū (西 家 桂州) in Osaka in 1906. When he died the following year, he continued his studies under Hirai Chokusui (平井 直 水; 1881–?). He worked as a teacher in a primary school for a while, but when he won first prize at the Tasumi Gakai Group's exhibition (巽 画 会) in 1909 for his painting "花色 焦", he decided to lead a life as a painter. In 1914 he moved to Kyoto, where he became a student of Takeuchi Seihō .

In 1918 Kanashima won a prize at the 12th Bunten exhibition and then prizes in 1925 on the 6th, 1927 on the 8th and 1928 on the 9th, for which he was a juror from 1934. At the same time he moved away from the traditional Nihonga painting style and showed a neorealistic view of things in his pictures. From 1936 to 1938 Kanashima taught at the School of Arts and Crafts in Kyōto (京都 市立 美術 工 芸 学校, Kyōto shiritsu bijutus kōgei gakkō). He was not particularly successful with it at the Shin-Bunten exhibitions, but was then quite active at the Nitten exhibitions after 1945. In 1952 he won the Minister of Education Award (芸 術 選 奨 文 部 大臣 賞, Gejutsu senshō Mobun daihin shō) in 1954 Prize of the Academy of the Arts , of which he became a member in 1959.

Representative works are "Meiu kyūkō" (cranes in the march; 1927) in the collection of the Imperial Court Office and "冬 田" (Fuyuta; fields in winter; 1953) owned by the National Theater,

In 1931 Kanashima was shown at the Japanese Painting Exhibition in Berlin. In 2009, the Japanese Post issued a sheet of ten 80-yen “Peonies” stamps, two of which were double stamps showing Kanashima's pictures.

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c d Bunten is the abbreviation for the annual state art exhibition (文 展) for Mombushō bijutsu tenrankai ( 文部省 美術展 覧 会 ) from 1907 to 1918, Teiten ( 帝 展 ) is the abbreviation for follow-up facility (帝国美術展 覧 会 , Teikoku bijutsu-in tenrankai ) between 1919 and 1935. From 1936 to 1944, a shin (新) for “new” was added. The successor from 1946, now no longer state-owned, was called Nitten for ( 日本 美術展 覧 会 , Nihon bijutsu-in tenrankai ).

Web links (images)

Owned by the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo :

literature

  • National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (ed.): Kanashima Keika. In: Kyōto no Nihonga 1910–1930. National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 1986. ISBN 4-87642-117-X .
  • Tazawa, Yutaka: Kanashima Keika . In: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art. Kodansha International, 1981. ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .
  • Laurance P. Roberts: Kanashima Keika . In: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Kanashima is the family name, Keika the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Kanashima, Keika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 金 島 桂華 (Japanese); Kanashima Seita (real name); 金 島 政 太 (real name, Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Kannabe (神 辺 町), Hiroshima Prefecture
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1974