Kurata Hakuyō

Kurata Hakuyō

Kurata Hakuyō ( Japanese 倉田 白羊 ; born December 25, 1881 in Urawa ; died November 29, 1938 ) was a Japanese painter of the Yōga direction during the Meiji , Taishō and early Shōwa periods .

Life

Kurata Hakuyō was born the second son. The family later moved to Tokyo, where at the age of 14 he became a student of Asai Chū , a relative of the family. In 1898 he began studying Western-style painting, Yōga , at the Tokyo Art School, the forerunner of today's Geidai , where he was tutored by Asai and Kuroda Seiki . In 1901 he graduated and took a job as a teacher at a middle school in Numata ( Gunma Prefecture ) on. Despite the secure position, he left after three years and began to work as a painter and reporter for the newspaper "Jiji Shimpō" (時事 新 報).

He participated in exhibitions of the Taiheiyō Gakai (太平洋 画 会), in the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 6th exhibition of the Ministry of Culture (文部省 美術展 覧 会, Mombush bijutsuō tenrankai) and in those of Nihon Bijutsuin . In 1922 he belonged with Adachi Genichirō (足 立 源 一郎, 1889-1973), Kosugi Hōan , Umehara Ryūsaburō , Yamamoto Kanae and others to the seven who founded the artist community "Shunyō-kai" (春陽 会). With Yamamoto, Ishii Hakutei , Morita Tsunetomo (森 田恒友; 1881–1933) and others he worked on the artist magazine "Hōsun" (方寸, Hŏsun).

Kurata took on the idea of ​​Kanaes that one had to take care of the free artistic education of children, especially in the country, within the framework of a movement he called "Jidō jiyū kyōiku undō" (児 童 自由 画 教育 運動). He took a liking to the village of Kamishina (神 科 村, today part of the city of Ueda ), and set up a studio there in 1927. In 1934 he showed the picture “Twilight” (た そ が れ; Tasogare) at the Shunyokai exhibition, and in 1935 the picture “Funkenfeuer” (た き 火, Takibi), the latter being large (210 × 275 cm).

Kurata fell ill, but still worked in 1937 as a lecturer at the Shunyōkai, mainly to train the offspring in Nagano Province. In that year he showed at the Shunyōkai exhibition in addition to "Winter Fields" (冬 の 野) and "At the Well" (井 戸 端, Ido-bata) two more pictures. These were his last works; he died the following year.

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  "Twilight"

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  "Bonfire"

literature

• Yamada Shoten (Ed.): Hangaka meiran . Yamada Shoten, 1985.

Web links

Commons : Kurata Hakuyō  - collection of images

• Kurata Hakuyo, CV (Japanese)

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