Noda Hideo

Noda Hideo ( Japanese 野 田 英 夫 ; born July 15, 1908 , in California ; died January 12, 1939 ) was a Japanese painter of the Yōga school of the Shōwa period .

life and work

Noda Hideo was born in California to a Japanese and an American mother. In 1911 he came to Kumamoto, his father's hometown, to attend school there. After graduating from Kumamoto Middle School in 1926, he returned to the United States and enrolled at Piedmont High School in Oakland . There he began with oil painting and began after graduating from high school to study at the California College of Arts and Crafts, where he made a close friendship with the painter Terada Takeo ( 寺 田 竹 雄 ; 1908-1993). In 1931 he left college and went to New York at the invitation of Arnold Branch, a professor at the Art Students League of New York. Noda lived there in the Woodstock artists' colony. That was the time when he met Kuniyoshi Yasuo . - In 1931 Noda received the Woodstock Art Association Prize, and in the same year came into contact with Dali's surrealism in his solo exhibition. He returned to San Francisco, showed pictures in the local artists' association and received the Maria Stone Prize.

In 1934 Noda went back to New York and showed work at the Independent Exhibition and the American Group Exhibition. He supported Diego Rivera in the execution of his murals for the Rockefeller Center and became a member of the New York Mural Artists Association. That same year he was invited to show work at the All-American Art exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art . he also created the mural entitled "Immigrants" for a government project.

Noda went back to Japan and showed the pictures "Heimweg" ( 帰 路 , Kiro ) and "Traum" ( 夢 , Yume ) at the exhibition of the Nika-kai ( 二 科 会 ) in 1935 . That was his first appearance in a Japanese environment. He returned to America the following year, then was back in Japan in 1937, where he saw pictures such as “Circus” ( サ ー カ ス , Sākasu ), “On the Ice” ( 氷上 , Hyōjō ) and “Big City” ( 都会 , Tokai ) on the second exhibition of the "New Creative Society" ( 新 制作 協会 , Shin-seisaku-kyōkai ) showed, of which he became a member.

In early 1939, Noda died of a brain tumor in Tōkyō. The New York Times lamented his untimely death in an article.

photos

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  A woman writing letters, 1933

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  Landscape, 1933

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  Big city, 1934

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  Way home, 1935

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  Cow cart, 1936

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  Untitled, 1936

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  Circus, 1937

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  Carousel, 1937

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  Landscape, 1938

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  Flowers from Nojiri, 1938

Remarks

1. ↑ “Nojiri” ( 野 尻 ) should mean Lake Nojiri , a popular summer excursion destination in Nagano prefecture .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} These pictures were shown at the exhibition Japanese Painting in Western Style 1985 in the Museum for East Asian Art in Cologne.

literature

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

Web links

Commons : Noda Hideo  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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