Nakamura Teii

Nakamura Teii ( Japanese 中 村 貞 以 , real first name: Kiyosada ( 清 貞 ); born July 23, 1900 in Osaka ; died March 12, 1982 ) was a Japanese painter of the Nihonga direction during the Shōwa period .

life and work

Nakamura Teii received his first instruction in painting from the ukiyoe artist Hasegawa Sadanobu III. ( 三代 長谷川 貞 信 ; 1881–1963). From 1919 he took lessons from Kitano Tsunetomi (1880-1947). Tsunetomi had studied with Ineno Toshitsune and was a member of the same studio as Mizuno Toshikata and Tsukioka Yoshitoshi .

But Teii's search for a realistic way of painting led him away from traditional painting of beautiful women. He received his first award at the 10th Inten exhibition in 1922, i.e. the exhibition series of Nihon Bijutsuin , and in the following years he continued to submit works to Inten. In 1931 he was shown at the Japanese Painting Exhibition in Berlin . In 1932 he received the Nihon Bijutsuin Grand Prize, and in 1936 he finally became a member. By Nakamura a number of war paintings from the last years of the Pacific War are shown in the National Museum of Modern Art in Tōkyō.

Teii was awarded the Grand Prize of the Minister of Culture in 1960 and that of the Japanese Academy of Arts in 1966 . His characteristic works include “Refreshing Coolness” ( 爽 涼 , Sōryō ; 1956) in the National Museum of Modern Art in Tōkyō and “Woman in Blue with Siamese Cat” ( シ ャ ム 猫 と 青衣 の 女 , Shamuneko to seii no onna ; 1965) owned of the Japanese Academy of Arts .

literature

• Tazawa, Yutaka: Nakamura Teii . In: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art. Kodansha International, 1981. ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .

Web links to images

• Screen pair "In the morning", 1932 (in the Kyōto National Museum )
• "Woman in Blue with Siamese Cat"

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