Shōichi Hasegawa

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Shōichi Hasegawa

Shōichi Hasegawa ( Japanese 長谷川 彰 一 , Hasegawa Shōichi ; born September 7, 1929 in Yaizu , Shizuoka Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese painter and graphic artist living in Paris.

LBiography

After training as a radio operator, Hasegawa worked at the Japanese Post Office Hasegawa in the main post office in Yaizu. At the same time he began to develop his talent for drawing and decided to start an apprenticeship as a painter.

Training and studies followed from 1945 to 1951, first with Yoshinari Koga, an artist of local importance (realistic portraits and landscapes), then moved to Tokyo and studied painting at the Koguga Academy. During his studies in Tokyo he was particularly influenced by Tasuku Kasukabe , an important watercolourist, who established a connection for him with a watercolourists' association, in whose exhibition Hasegawa participated.

Hasegawa's development, both on a technical and conceptual level, was greatly influenced by his acquaintance with the well-known Japanese painter Kawaguchi Kigau , who had participated in the research of the Cubists and Surrealists in Paris during the 1920s .

In 1961, Hasegawa moved to Paris with his wife to learn the etching technique, which is rarely used in Japan. He became a student at Atelier Hayter , which was then considered the cradle of artist graphics in France. In Paris he came more and more under European influence; the relationships between his work and Paul Klee are particularly clear .

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In addition to oil painting, Hasegawa's work primarily includes watercolors and color etchings, in which delicately nuanced areas of color are combined with fine lineament that often only suggests representationality. The colors often create an indefinitely floating space. His Japanese influence is evident in the extremely delicate restraint in the composition of the pictures, whereby the inclusion of empty space is of particular importance.

Voices about the work

  • “ My expression lies between Orient and Occident. ”Shōichi Hasegawa
  • “Shōichi Hasegawa is probably the most musical of today's Japanese artists. The water-colored transparency of his works, the delicacy of his drawing, the light strokes of his brushes and the almost symbolic task of his motifs are reminiscent of the technique of the other prince of plastic music, Paul Klee. Hasegawa is primarily Japanese. The music he hears while painting is Japanese. His brushes, his powders, which he mixes and bonds with skin glue, come from the oldest handicraft tradition. He works on fine Japanese paper, which he then pulls up in order to convey to us the extraordinary lightness of his worldview through each of his pictures. Shoichi Hasegawa is an excellent engraver - he has collected international prizes. But his amazing manual dexterity is hidden behind his masterful compositions, which will be remembered long after the eye has taken them. Like no other, he combines the finest range of colors in the delicate geometry of his characters. Some of his etchings appear through the fine labyrinth of their lines like mental microprocessors, each of which is charged with energy. ”André Parinaud

Exhibitions

In the first year

  • from 1951 to 1954 three watercolor exhibitions at the Japanese Academy of Fine Arts
  • 1957 first solo exhibition in Tokyo
  • 1959 second exhibition in Tokyo
  • 1965 International Graphic Exhibition in Ljubljana
  • 1968 International graphics exhibition in Como / 1st prize

International exhibitions in the USA, Africa, Europe and Japan follow

Current

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Galerie Fujii ( Memento of the original from August 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Japanese) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gallery-fujii.co.jp
  2. ↑ mchampetier.com  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (September 1, 2008)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mchampetier.com  
  3. ↑ Leaflet for the exhibition Hundertwasser & Hasegawa "Orient and Occident" in the Schleswig-Holstein House Schwerin, 2008.

literature

  • Petru Petrov (ed.): Catalog raisonné of the graphic works of Shoichi Hasegawa from 1962–1987. Ed. Raphael, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-9801569-0-7 .

Web links

Individual pictures

Other sources

personal data
SURNAME Hasegawa, Shōichi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 長谷川 彰 一 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese painter and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Yaizu , Japan