Ebihara Kinosuke

Ebihara Kinosuke ( Japanese 海 老 原 喜 之 助 ; born September 13, 1904 in Kagoshima ; died September 19, 1970 ) was a Japanese painter of the late Taishō and then the Shōwa period in the Yōga style.

life and work

Ebihara was born the son of a marine outfitter in Kagoshima. He attended Shibushi Middle School in Kagoshima Prefecture . In 1922 he went to Tōkyō, where he attended the "Kawabata School of Painting" ( 川端 画 学校 , Kawabata ga-gakkō ) and learned to draw.

In 1923 Ebihara went to France and became a student of Tsuguharu Foujita . He then exhibited in Japan at the Nika-kai ( 二 科 会 ) as well as in Paris at the Salon d'Automne and the Artistes Indépendants . In 1927, Ebihara, along with other artists such as Campigli and Giacometti, was invited by the Salon de l'Escalier to exhibit at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées des Louis Jouvet , thus becoming an established artist in Paris. - A picture from this period bears the title “Terrain” ( ゲ レ ン デ , Gerende; 1930).

In 1934 Ebihara returned to Japan and was invited the following year to become a member of the "Association of Independent Artists" ( Dokuritsu bijutsu kyōkai ). In 1936 he took part in the art competition on the occasion of the Olympic Games in Berlin with the work "Skating". However, his contribution was not awarded. - He showed his picture “Circus” ( 曲 馬 , Kyokuba) in the fifth annual exhibition and became a leading member of the association. He remained active on the topic of humans and horses.

In 1945 Ebihara moved to Kagoshima, where he stayed for 15 years. He now dealt with very different topics, whereby his style became much more edgy and raw. "Martyrs" ( 殉教 者 , Junkyosha ; 1952; purchased by the Ministry of Culture), "Man building ships" ( 船 を 造 る 人 , Fune o tsukuru hito ; 1954), "Shoemakers" ( 靴 屋 , Kutsuya ; 1955) date from this period . and “Burning” ( 燃 え る , Moeru ; 1957; Prize of the National Museum of Modern Art ). In 1959 he received the Mainichi Prize for the lithograph "Butterfly" ( 蝶 ; Chō) and in 1963 the Prize of the Minister of Culture for "Regentag" ( 雨 の 日 ; Ame no hi ). - During his second visit to Europe in 1965, he was particularly drawn to Roman art. He traveled through various European countries, died en route in 1970 in Paris.

Remarks

1. ↑ In Japan, this German loan word always means a “ski area”.
2. ↑ This picture was shown at the exhibition Japanese Painting in Western Style 1985 in the Museum for East Asian Art in Cologne.

literature

• Suzuki, Toshihiko (Ed.): Ebihara Kinosuke . In: Nihon daihyakka zensho (Denshibukku-han), Shogakukan, 1996.
• Japan Foundation (Ed.): Japanese Painting in the Western Style, 19th and 20th Centuries. Exhibition catalog, Cologne, 1985.
• Tazawa, Yutaka: Ebihara Kinosuke . In: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art. Kodansha International, 1981. ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .

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