Kawai Gyokudō

Kawai Gyokudō

The Kawai Gyokudō Museum

Kawai Gyokudō ( Japanese 川 合 玉堂 ; real first name Yoshisaburō ( 芳 三郎 ); born November 24, 1873 in Aichi Prefecture ; died June 30, 1957 ) was a Japanese painter of the Nihonga direction.

Live and act

In 1887, Kawai left his home and went to Kyoto to initially Mochizuki Gyokusen ( 望月玉泉 ; 1834-1912) to study painting, changed in 1890 but then to Kōno Bairei to be in the style of Maruyama Shijō school to make further . In the same year he exhibited at the third domestic exhibition to promote business and received an award for it. In addition, there were other prizes, such as the Japanese Association of Young Artists ( 日本 青年 絵 画 協会 , Nihon his kaiga kyōkai) and the Japanese Art Association ( 日本 美術 協会 , Nihon bijutsu kyōkai). At the 4th exhibition he was moved by the screen pair "Dragon and Tiger" ( 龍虎 図 , Tatsu tora-zu ) by the painter Hashimoto Gahō , so that he moved to Tōkyō to learn more from him.

In 1907, Kawai showed his picture "Shortly after New Moon" ( 二 日月 , Futsuka-zuki ) at the exhibition in Tokyo to promote the economy , which attracted considerable attention. So he was considered an important successor in the Kano school. He then exhibited at the state-sponsored art exhibition “Bunten”, where he was the master of artistic reproduction of nature with the pair of adjustable screens “Spring is Coming” (Stell く 春, Yuku haru) in 1916 solidified.

From 1916 to 1936 Kawai was a teacher at the Tōkyō Art School, the forerunner of today's Tokyo University of the Arts . Then he trained young artists in his private school Chōryū-juku ( 長 瀏 塾 ).

In 1917 Kawai was appointed artist at the court ( 帝室 技 芸 員 , Teishitsu gigei-in), in 1919 he was accepted into the Imperial Academy of Arts ( 帝国美術 院 , Teikoku bijitsu-in). In 1940 he received the Japanese Order of Culture .

Kawai was also known as a poem writer and published the collection " Straw House on the Tama River" ( 多 摩 の 草屋 , Tama no kusaya ). His house and studio in the city ​​of Ōme in the west of Tōkyō prefecture was replaced in 1961 by a new building designed by the architect Yoshida Isoya and opened to the public as a museum.

photos

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  Shortly after the new moon

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  The spring comes

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  The spring comes

Remarks

1. ↑ These exhibitions under the Japanese name "Kokunai sangyō hakurankai" ( 国内 産業 博 覧 会 ) understood - like the western world exhibitions of the time - painting as a craft to be promoted.
2. ↑ Bunten ( 文 展 ) is the abbreviation for the Mombusho bijutsu tenrankai ( 文部省 美術展 覧 会 ) organized by the Ministry of Culture .

literature

• Suzuki, Toshihiko (Ed.): Kawai Gyokudo. In: NIhon daihyakka zensho (Denshibukku-han), Shogakukan, 1996.
• Tazawa, Yutaka: Kawai Gyokudo In: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art. Kodansha International, 1981. ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .

Web links

• Gyokudo Museum (Japanese only)

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Kawai is the family name, Gyokudō the first name.