Matsuda Naoyuki

Matsuda Naoyuki ( Japanese 松田 尚 之 ; born September 4, 1898 in Toyama Prefecture ; died March 29, 1995 ) was a Japanese sculptor during the Shōwa period .

life and work

Matsuda Naoyuki was born in Toyama Prefecture, but was adopted by the Matsuda family as a child and came to Kanazawa. After completing the ceramics course at the Ishikawa Prefecture Industrial School , he enrolled at the Tōykō Bijutsu Gakkō ( 東京 美術 学校 ), the forerunner of the Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku . There he became a student of Asakura Fumio . In 1921, when he was still in training, his work “Posing Woman” ( ポ ＝ ズ す る 女 ) was accepted at the 3rd “ Teiten ” exhibition. After graduating in 1922, he mainly devoted himself to female nudes, with his work repeatedly receiving praise for exhibitions. In 1932 he became a juror for the Teiten exhibitions.

Matsuda built a carving and modeling training facility in Kyōto, the "Kyōto Chōso Kenkyūjo" ( 京都 彫塑 研究所 ). At the same time he was a teacher at the "College of Arts and Crafts" ( 京都 市立 美術 工 芸 専 門 学校 Kyoto shiritsu Bijutsu Kōgei semmon gakko ) in Kyoto and became a leading position among the sculptors in Kyoto and Osaka. In 1951 he became a professor at the "University of Arts and Crafts" ( 金 沢 美術 工 芸 大学 ) in Kanazawa, and in 1952 he was professor at the Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku. In 1958 he received the Academy of Arts Prize for a female sculpture. In 1968 he became a member of the academy, in 1970 he was awarded the 3rd Class Order of Merit, and in 1970 he became a consultant for the successor organization of the Teiten, now called "Nitten" exhibition.

Matsuda's important works include “Sehnsucht” and the group of sculptures of six miners “Rokutai no Jimbutsu-zō” ( 六 体 の 人物 像 ), in memory of the numerous workers who perished in the 1950s when the Kurobe dam was built were. His sculpture “Young Woman” ( Japanese年 若 き 女Toshiwakaki Onna ) is in the Matsukawaberi Sculpture Park ( 松川 べ り 彫刻 公園 ) in the city of Toyama . In front of the police station at Shichijō ( 七 条 警察 署Shichjō Keisatsusho ) in Kyoto stands a female Matsudas torchbearer from 1960, named by the artist "Meichō" ( 明 澄 ), something like "Enlightenment" and so labeled.

literature

• Tazawa, Yutaka: Matsuda Naoyuki. In: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art. Kodansha International, 1981, ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .
• Laurance P. Roberts: Matsuda Naoyuki. In: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, 1976, ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .

Web links

• Short CV of the National Research Institute of Cultural Properties Tokyo , Japanese

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Matsuda is the family name, Naoyuki the first name.