Koiso Ryōhei

The Koiso Museum in Kobe

Koiso Ryōhei ( Japanese 小 磯 良 平 ; born July 25, 1903 in Kōbe ; died December 16, 1988 ) was a Japanese painter in the "western", Yōga style of the Shōwa period .

life and work

From 1922 Koiso studied painting in Tokyo at the local college of arts, the institution of the Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku , in under Fujishima Takeji . His fellow students included Ushijima Noriyuki , Ogisu Takanori ( 荻 須 高 徳 ; 1901–1986) , who died in Paris, and Yamaguchi Takeo, who was born in Seoul .

In 1926, when Koiso was still a student, his work “Geschwister” ( 兄妹 , Keimai ) was accepted for the sixth Teiten exhibition. At the seventh exhibition his picture "Portrait of Miss T." ( T 嬢 の 像 , T-jō no zō ) was mentioned with praise. In 1927 Koiso completed his training as the best in his class and founded the "Jōto Society" ( 協会 ) with some fellow students .

From 1928 to 1930 Koiso went to Europe. In 1929 his picture "Woman with a scarf" ( 肩 掛 け の 女 , Katakake no onna ) was exhibited in the Salon d'Automne . Back in Japan in 1931 Koiso became a member of the Kōfū-kai ( 光 風 eten ) founded in 1912 . In the same he founded together with Inokuma Gen'ichirō ( 猪 熊 弦 一郎 ; 1902–1993), Satō Kei ( 佐藤 敬 ; 1906–1978), Wakita Kazu ( 脇 田 和 ; 1908–2005) and others the "New Creative Society" ( 新 制作 協会 , Shin seisaku kyōkai ), where he showed works such as “make-up” ( 化粧 , Keshō ) at their first exhibition. - In 1936 he took part in the art competition on the occasion of the Olympic Games in Berlin with the works "Wrestling of the Students I" and "Wrestling of the Students II". However, his contributions were not awarded.

During the Pacific War Koiso worked as a painter in China. In 1940 he received the 11th Asahi Art Prize for “Soldier and Horse” ( 兵馬 , Heiba ) and for the “Battle at the Zhonghua Gate of Nanjing” ( 南京 中華 門 の 戦 闘 , Nankin Chūkamon no sentō ). In 1941 he received the first prize of the Japanese Academy of Arts for his picture "Marching through Niangziguan " ( 娘子關 を 征 く , Nyanjigan o yuku ). During this time he also illustrated works by Hayashi Fumiko , Ishizaka Yōjirō and Ishikawa Tatsuzō .

1950 Koiso was a lecturer at the Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku. In 1953 he received a professorship there, which he held until 1971. - After 1945 Koiso showed his pictures not only at the exhibitions of the New Creative Society, but also at the exhibitions “Japanese Art of the Present” ( 現代 日本 美術展 , Gendai Nihon bijutsu-ten ). In 1973 Koiso was commissioned to paint a wall in the Akasaka Palace .

His representative works include "Before the dance" ( 踊 り の 前 , Odori no mae ; 1934), "Portrait" ( 肖像 , Shōzō ; 1940), "Portrait of three standing people" ( 三人 立 像 , Sannin ritusō ; 1954) and “Working Woman” ( 働 く 女 , Hataraku onna ; 1968).

In 1983 Koiso was awarded the Japanese Order of Culture together with his good friend Ushijima . The city of Kobe built his own museum ( 神 戸 市立 小 磯 記念 美術館 , Kobe shiritsu Koiso kinen bijutsukan ) with a generous 4000 m² area.

Remarks

1. ↑ Teiten ( 帝 展 ) is the abbreviation for the annual state art exhibition ( 帝国 美術 院 展 覧 会 , Teikoku bijutsu-in tenrankai ) between 1919 and 1945.

literature

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

Web links

• Koiso Museum, Japanese
• Picture collection for Koiso Ryohei

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