Nagasawa Rosetsu

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Nagasawa Rosetsu ( Japanese 長 澤 蘆 雪 , real first name Masakatsu ( 政 勝 ); born 1754 in Yamashiro ; died July 10, 1799 ) was a Japanese painter of the Maruyama Shijō school during the middle Edo period .

life and work

Nagasawa Rosetsu appears to have been the son of a lower samurai family in the Yodo domain south of Kyoto who then became head of the Nagasawa family. He was a good friend of Minagawa Kien ( 皆川 淇 園 ; 1735–1807). There is a work by him from 1781, which reflects the style of Maruyama Ōkyos , and he is listed in the artist directory Heian jimbutsu shi ( 平安 人物 史 ) from 1782 as an artist in Kyōto - here referred to as Heian . So it looks like Rosetsu went to Kyoto relatively early and became a successful painter under Ōkyo's direction.

The works of this early period were rather routine, but in 1787 when he made a trip to the south of Kii Province (now Wakayama Prefecture ) his style changed dramatically. As you can see on the screen and sliding door paintings ( 襖 絵 , Fusuma -e ) for the temples Muryō-ji ( 無量 寺 ) and Sōdō-ji ( 草堂寺 ), two temples in the south of the province of Kii, he had one Bold style developed with masterful brushwork and unconventional composition. This style can best be seen in the numerous sliding door paintings which have been his specialty and which represent his major contribution to the development of Japanese painting.

In 1790, Rosetsu joined his teacher Ōkyo when it came to creating wall paintings for the imperial palace in Kyoto. Rosetsu seems to have been a personality without great inhibitions, at least there are numerous anecdotes about his lifestyle. It is even said that he was expelled from the Ōkyo school.

In addition to the murals in the south of the Kii province, the work "Landscape under moonlight" ( 月夜 , Tsukiyo sansui-zu ) in the private Egawa Art Museum ( 頴 川 美術館 ) in Nishinomiya and the framed picture "Mountain Witch" ( 山 姥 , Yamauba ) owned by Itsukushima Shrine .

photos

  • Tiger (from the Muryō-ji)

  • Eight views of Miyajima

  • Left screen

  • Right screen

Remarks

  1. ↑ "Eight Views of ..." is a popular topic in Japan. The best known are the " Eight Views of Lake Biwa ". - This is Itsukushima Shrine and its surroundings on Miyajima Island in Hiroshima Prefecture .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art .
  2. ↑ In the possession of the Bunkacho.

literature

  • Laurance P. Roberts: Rosetsu . In: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .
  • Khan Trinh, Matthew P. McKelway: Rosetsu: Fantastic worlds of images from Japan . Prestel, Munich / London / New York, 2018.
  • Stefan Trinks: "In the temple of the paper tiger", in: FAZ, September 15, 2018.
  • Tazawa, Yutaka: Nagasawa Rosetsu . In: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art. Kodansha International, 1981. ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .

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Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Nagasawa is the family name, Rosetsu the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Nagasawa, Rosetsu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 長 澤 蘆 雪 (Japanese); Nagasawa Masakatsu (real name); 長 澤 政 勝 (real name, Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Yamashiro Province
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1799