Ono Chikkyō

Ono Chikkyō ( Japanese 小野 竹 橋 , first name also read Chikukyō ; born November 20, 1889 in Kasaoka ( Okayama Prefecture ); died May 10, 1979 ) was a Japanese painter of the Nihonga direction during the Taishō and Shōwa periods .

life and work

Ono went to Kyoto in 1903, where he became a student of Takeuchi Seihō . When the Municipal College of Painting (京都 市立 絵 画 専 門 学校, Kyōto shiritsu kaiga semmon gakkō) opened in 1909, Ono was one of the first students. In 1911, Ono and Tsuchida Bakusen graduated after completing the special program, while Sakakibara Shihō and Murakami Kagaku took the ordinary degree.

When Ono left school, he was already known as a landscape painter. He had successfully exhibited at the Shin-kobijutsu-ten (新 古 美術展) exhibitions and was admitted to the 1st and 2nd Bunter exhibitions in 1907 and 1908. It then also won a prize at one of the colorful exhibitions, but otherwise could not attract any greater attention. Finally, he withdrew from state exhibitions and organized, together with Tsuchida, Sakakibara, Murakami and Nonagase Banka , the "Kokuga sōsaku kyōkai" (国画 創作 協会; National Association for Creative Painting) in 1918. They cultivated a style that was based on Cézanne and other post-impressionist painters. In 1922 Ono traveled to Europe with Tsuchida, Nonagase and others, but returned that same year.

After the organization dissolved in 1928, Ono and Tsuchida exhibited on the Teiten and after the war on the Nitten. In 1947 Ono was admitted to the Academy of Arts and then became a teacher at his former training facility, the municipal college for painting. In 1968 he was honored as a person with special cultural merits and at the same time received the Order of Culture .

Exemplary works are Fuyubi-chō (冬日 帖, Wintertag album: 1928) and “Yūzora” (夕 空, evening sky; 1953) in the New Kabuki Theater in Osaka . In 1951 the Japanese Post issued a double stamp "Oirase no keiryū" (奥 入 瀬 の 渓 流, current of Oirase). - In 1982 a museum, the "Kasaoka shiritsu Ono Chikkyū bijutsukan" (笠岡 市立 美術館), was built for him in Ono's hometown Kasaoka, which made him an honorary citizen.

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Bunten is the abbreviation for the annual state art exhibition (文 展) for Mombushō bijutsu tenrankai ( 文部省 美術展 覧 会 ) from 1907 to 1918. Teiten ( 帝 展 ) is the abbreviation for subsequent facility Teikoku bijutsu-in tenrankai ( 帝国 美術展 覧 会 ) between 1919 and 1935. The successor from 1946, no longer state-owned, was called Nitten for Nihon bijutsu-in tenrankai ( 日本 美術展 覧 会 ).

literature

• National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (ed.): Ono Chikkyō In: Kyōto no Nihonga 1910–1930. National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 1986. ISBN 4-87642-117-X .
• Tazawa, Yutaka: Ono Chikkyō In: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art. Kodansha International, 1981. ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .
• Laurance P. Roberts: Ono Chikkyō . In: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .

Web links (images)

• Ono Chkkyo Museum in Kasaoka

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