Nishiyama Hideo

Nishiyama Hideo ( Japanese 西山 英雄 ; born May 7, 1911 in Kyōto ; died January 21, 1989 ) was a Japanese painter in the Nihonga style of the Shōwa period .

life and work

Nishiyama Hideo first attended the painting school Seikō-sha ( 青 甲 社 ) of Nishiyama Suishō . He won his first award in the form of a prize at the 12th Teiten exhibition in 1931. He won an even higher prize at the 15th exhibition in 1934. Two years later he graduated from the "Kyōto Municipal Art School" ( 京都 市立 絵 画 専 門 学校 , Kyōto shiritsu semmon gakkō ) and later exhibited at the Nitten ( 日 展 ), the successor to the Teiten.

With pictures such as “ Snowy Summit” ( 雪嶺 , Setsurei; 1939), “Evening Volcano” ( 火山 の 夕 べ , Kazan no yūbe ; 1941) and “Twilight” ( 薄暮 , Hakubo ; 1943), Nishiyama found recognition as a painter of the mountains. After the Pacific War , his pictures became even more dynamic, as shown by his "Mountain Hira in the Dusk" ( 比 良 薄暮 , Hira hakubo), a picture that won a prize at the 3rd Nitten exhibition.

Nishiyama also had solo exhibitions in Tōkyō, Osaka and Kyōto in 1949 and 1952. He received the Grand Prize of the Minister of Culture ( 文 部 大臣 賞 , Mombu-daijin-shō ) in 1958 and that of the Academy of Arts in 1961. In 1980 he became a member of the Academy of Arts .

Nishiyama's style is characterized by strong coloring and careful thick application of the colors and shows itself in this way very different from the usual Nihonga painting style in Kyoto. Other representative works are "Hira under white snow" ( 比 良 白雪 ; 1947) in the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo and " Sakurajima " ( 桜 島 ; 1955) in the National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto .

Remarks

1. ↑ Teiten ( 帝 展 ) is the abbreviation for Teikoku bijutsu tenrankai ( 帝国 美術展 覧 会 ), the annual state art exhibition in the 1930s.
2. ↑ "Evening Snow on Mount Hira" is one of the Eight Views of Lake Biwa .

literature

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

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