Shimizu Takashi

This article is about the sculptor Shimizu Takashi. For the film producer of the same name, see Takashi Shimizu .

Shimizu Takashi ( Japanese 清水 多 嘉 示 ; born July 27, 1897 in Hara ( Nagano Prefecture ); died May 5, 1981 ) was a Japanese sculptor of the Taishō and Shōwa periods .

life and work

Shimizu Takashi began his artistic career by submitting pictures to the exhibitions of the artist community Nika-kai (二 科 Künstler). In 1923 he traveled to Europe and, impressed by the work of the French sculptor Émile-Antoine Bourdelle , applied to him and became one of his students at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière . While studying and working in France, Shimizu exhibited paintings and sculptures at the Salon d'Automne , Salon des Tuileries, and elsewhere. In 1928 Shimizu returned to Japan.

In Japan he showed his work at the Nihon Bijutsuin regularly organized "Inten", the Kokuga-kai (国画 会) and Shun'yō-kai (春陽 会). He became a professor at the Imperial School of Fine Arts, now the Musashino Art School . From 1941 he exhibited at the series of exhibitions, known for short as "Bunten", and its successor, the Nitten. From 1943 he worked as a juror at the exhibitions. He also exhibited at Shinju-kai.

His sculpture "Green Rhythm" (緑 の リ ズ ム, Midori no rizumu), with which he applied in a competition for a sculpture in Ueno Park in 1951 , was awarded the Prize of the Academy of Arts in 1954 . In the same year he attended the congress of the "International League of Plastic Arts" in Venice and became a member of the executive committee. In 1965 he became a member of the Academy of Arts. He participated, together with Ossip Zadkine and others, as a juror in an international sculpture competition for a monument on the "International Plaza" in Geneva.

Shimizu continued the constructive style of his teacher Bourdelle. His well-known works include the female nude (裸 婦, Rafu) from 1952 and the sculpture of a youth (青年 の 像, Seinen no zō) from 1953.

literature

• Tazawa, Yutaka: Shimizu Takashi. In: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art. Kodansha International, 1981, ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .
• Laurance P. Roberts: Shimizu Takashi . In: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .

Weblinks (works)

• Painting: Alps (1926)
• Sculpture: Nude (1967)
• Bust Ishibashi Shōjirō (1970) - Ishibashi Shōjirō (石橋 正 二郎; 1889-1976) was the founder of the Bridgestone tire company and patron of the arts

Remarks

1. ↑ Inten (院 展) is the abbreviation for the annual exhibition of Nihon Bijutsuin .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Bunten is the abbreviation for the annual state art exhibition (文 展 = Bun-ten) for Mombushō bijutsu tenrankai ( 文部省 美術展 覧 会 ) from 1907 to 1918, Teiten ( 帝 展 ) is the abbreviation for follow-up facility (帝国美術展 覧 会 , Teikoku bijutsu-in tenrankai ) between 1919 and 1935. The successor from 1936 to 1944 was called Bunten again, a shin (新) for “new” was added to distinguish it. Since 1946, the exhibition has been called Nitten for ( 日本 美術展 覧 会 , Nihon bijutsu-in tenrankai ) , no longer state-owned .

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