Matsuoka Hisashi

Matsuoka Hisashi

Matsuoka Hisashi ( Japanese 松岡 寿 ; born March 5, 1862 in Okayama Prefecture ; died April 28, 1944 ) was a Japanese painter of the Yōga direction during the Meiji , Taishō, and Shōwa periods .

life and work

Matsuoka Hisashi was born to a samurai in Okayama Prefecture. In 1872, just 10 years old, he moved to Tōkyō with his father. Already at this time he began to paint pictures in the European style. After the opening of the State Art School of the Ministry of Public Works ( 工部 美術 学校 , Kōbu bijutsu gakkō ) in 1876 , Matsuoka studied for two years under Antonio Fontanesi . When Fontanesi left school in 1878, Asai Chū , he and others left the school and founded the artists 'association "Elfer Group" ( 十一 会 , Jūichi-kai ), the first modern artists' association in Japan.

In 1880, at the age of 19, Matsuoka traveled to Italy to continue his education there. He worked under Cesare Maccari (1840-1919), an honorary professor at the State Art School of Rome, and in 1881 entered the free school attached to the institution. In 1883 he received permission to enter the State Art School himself, where he graduated in 1887. The picture “Man in Pietro Micca's Clothes ” was created during this time. Before Matsuoka returned to Japan in 1888, he visited Paris.

Back in Japan, Matsuoka founded the artists' association Meiji bijutsu-kai ( 明治 美術 会 ) with Asai Chū and others . He now devoted himself intensively to the training of young artists and taught at the Army School, then at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Tōkyō and at the Meijibijutsu School. In 1921 he became president of the Tōkyō Art Academy ( 東京 美術 学校 , Tōkyō bijutsu gakkō ), the forerunner of today's Geidai . He also acted as a juror for the state exhibition of the Ministry of Culture, the Mombu-shō bijutsu tenrankai ( 文部省 美術展 覧 会 ).

Matsuoka continued to paint, creating large-format history paintings around 1935. The very big breakthrough was denied him, but he left behind remarkable landscapes of Europe, especially Italy.

photos

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  Young Italian

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  Rome, triumphal arch

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  Man, 1881

1. ↑ This picture, it shows a man in the clothes of Pietro Micca , was shown at the exhibition Japanese Painting in Western Style 1985 in the Museum of East Asian Art in Cologne.

literature

• Nihon no bijutsu (Zs): Meiji no Yoga - Meiji no to-O gaka. Issue 350, 1995.
• Japan Foundation (Ed.): Matsuoka . In: Japanese painting in the western style, 19th and 20th centuries. Exhibition catalog, Cologne, 1985.
• Tazawa, Yutaka: Matsuoka Hisashi . In: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art. Kodansha International, 1981. ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .
• Laurance P. Roberts: Matsuoka Hisashi . In: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .

Web links

Commons : Matsuoka Hisashi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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