Kawahara Keiga

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Kawahara Keiga ( Japanese 川 原 慶賀 ; 1786 in Nagasaki - after 1860 ; real name: Taneyoshi ( 種 美 ); first name: Toyosuke ( 登 与 助 )) was the Japanese painter who mainly created realistic pictures of plants and fish for the botanist Philipp Franz von Siebold produced.

life and work

Keiga probably started painting under his father, the painter Kawahara Kōzan. Later, under the influence of Ishizaki Yūshi (1768-1846) and perhaps under the direct guidance of the Dutch on Dejima in Nagasaki, he developed into a painter who mastered the Western, realistic style ( 洋 風 画 , yōfūga ). He was the only Japanese painter of his time who was allowed to visit the Dutch in their residence.

Siebold, who came to Nagasaki in 1823, hired him to create lifelike colored sketches of Japanese plants, animals, fish, birds, reptiles, landscapes, customs and the like. a. to manufacture. Keiga worked with Heinrich Bürger . In 1826 they traveled to Edo, the annual court trip . When Siebold was arrested on his departure in 1828 while trying to get maps out of the country, Keiga was also punished. Two portraits of Philipp Franz von Siebold come from Keiga, depicting him (for the first time in 1826) as a Japanese with a pointed and long nose.

In 1842 Keiga was involved in a similar affair when he made sketches of government buildings and patrol boats at the request of the Dutch. He then had to leave Nagasaki, but was not allowed to stay in Edo either. Nothing further is known about his later life. The last work he knew was created in 1860.

photos

literature

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

Remarks

  1. ↑ From the book Keiga Shashin-sō ( 慶賀 写真 草 ) from 1838.

Web links

Commons : Kawahara Keiga  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Kawahara is the family name, Keiga the first name.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KAWAHARA KEIGA STUDIO PAINTINGS by Guus Roëll (2020)
  2. ↑ Constantin v. Brandenstein: News about the Würzburg Siebold monument. In: Tempora mutantur et nos? Festschrift for Walter M. Brod on his 95th birthday. With contributions from friends, companions and contemporaries. Edited by Andreas Mettenleiter , Akamedon, Pfaffenhofen 2007 (= From Würzburg's City and University History , 2), ISBN 3-940072-01-X , pp. 129–131
personal data
SURNAME Kawahara, Keiga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 川 原 慶賀 (Japanese, stage name); Kawahara Taneyoshi (real name); 川 原 種 美 (Japanese, real name); Kawahara Toyosuke (nickname); 川 原 登 与 助 (Japanese, nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagasaki
DATE OF DEATH after 1860