Masuo Ikeda
Masuo Ikeda ( Japanese 池田 満 寿 夫 , Ikeda Masuo ; born February 23, 1934 in Shenyang ( Manchuria / Republic of China ); died March 8, 1997 ) was a Japanese graphic artist, as well as an illustrator, sculptor, potter, filmmaker and writer.
life and work
Born in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in Shenyang, which was then still called Mukden or Fèngtiān / Hōten, Ikeda returned to Japan with the family after the end of the Pacific War and moved to their old homeland, Nagano . In 1952 he applied in Tokyo to the Tōkyō bijutsu gakkō ( 東京 美術 学校 ) art college , the forerunner of today's Geidai , which did not accept him. He made friends with the artist Ei-Kyū and began himself to develop the necessary techniques for his art.
Around 1960 he focused on making prints by making drypoint etchings on metal plates. The hard contours of these early prints are very different from his etchings and lithographs from the late sixties, which show poetic and erotic sensitivity. In 1967, at the suggestion of Will Grohmann , who became aware of him in 1960, he stayed in Germany and other European countries and studied the printing techniques there. While his early work is almost abstract, he later used - among other things - the means of photomontage.
Ikeda has received many awards. In 1960 he received the Minister of Culture's Prize, in 1962 he was honored by the Governor of Tokyo, in 1964 by the National Museum of Modern Art and at the Tokyo International Print Biennale. His international awards include the 1961 International Young Peoples' Biennale in Paris, the first prize at the International Print Biennale in Krakow and the first prize for prints at the Venice Biennale , the latter both in 1966. In 1977 he was awarded the Akutagawa- Prize for his collection of short novels entitled “Consecrated to the Aegean Sea” ( エ ー ゲ 海 に 捧 ぐ , Ēge-kai ni sasagu ). He then converted these novellas into a film version.
From 1972 to 1977 Ikeda lived in East Hampton near New York, then returned to Japan. He died of heart failure at the age of 63. A museum was opened for him in the city of Nagano in 1997, but it ceased operations in 2017.
In 1974, 15 pictures by Ikeda were on view at the exhibition Japan - Tradition and Present in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.
literature
- Tazawa, Yutaka: Ikeda Masuo . In: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art. Kodansha International, 1981. ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .
Web links (images)
- 移動 す る 翼 (Moving Wings), 1957
- 女 の 肖像 (Portrait of a Woman), 1960
- 東京 オ リ ン ピ ッ ク (Tokyo Olympics), 1964
- 9 月 を 持 っ た ス フ ィ ン ク ス (Sphinx that waited for September), 1970
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ikeda, Masuo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 池田 満 寿 夫 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese graphic artist, as well as illustrator, sculptor, potter, filmmaker and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shenyang ( Manchuria ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1997 |