Shinkichi Tajiri

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"De Knoop" (1976), Rotterdam
Wachter , The Hague

Shinkichi tajiri (* 7. December 1923 in Los Angeles , † 14. March 2009 in Baarlo ) lived in Baarlo in Venlo , The Netherlands , and was a Dutch - American painter , sculptor and photographer of Japanese descent.

Tajiri was born in Los Angeles in 1923 to Japanese parents. After his internment as a result of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor , Tajiri joined the US Army and came to Europe for the first time with the military intervention of the US in World War II .

After the end of the war he studied at the Art Institute in Chicago in 1947/1948 . Then Tajiri went to Paris , where he studied with the sculptor Ossip Zadkine and the painter Fernand Léger . Later he started exhibiting together with the artists of the group COBRA . He took part in the great COBRA exhibition in 1949 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam .

In 1956 Tajiri moved to Amsterdam and lived and worked there until 1962. Then he moved with his wife Ferdi and their two daughters to Maasbree / Baarlo near Venlo in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands he worked with the artists Constant , Karel Appel , Lucebert (painter and writer / poet) and Corneille , among others . The garden in the Cobra Museum ( Amstelveen , Netherlands) was created by him.

In addition to sculpture and painting, Shinkichi Tajiri also worked as a photographer and filmmaker. As a photographer, he also worked with the technique of the daguerreotype . Tajiri was a participant in documenta II (1959), documenta III (1964), and also the 4th documenta in 1968 in Kassel .

In 1969 Tajiri was offered a professorship at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin . He was also a visiting professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Tajiri was constantly developing and experimenting with different techniques. In photography he rediscovered the daguerreotype . He developed his own offset printing process called "X-Press" and recently began to experiment with computer drawings.

Sources and literature

  • (Leonard Freed / Shinkichi Tajiri): Strange Games; How the sculptor Tajiri tames girls and metals. A photo book by Leonard Freed . Bärmeier & Nikel , Frankfurt, 1970. Text by Herbert Feuerstein .
  • Tajiri, Shinkichi: The Wall. The wall. Le mur . Baarlo, NL, 1971. Very small edition.
  • Mirrors met herinneringen: 101 daguerreotypes by Tajiri . Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1976.
  • Mirror with memories. Shinkichi Tjiri's rediscovery of the daguerreotype . Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 1977.
  • Tajiri, Shinkichi: Autobiographical Notations - Autobiografische aantekeningen: Words and Images - Woorden en beelden . Eindhoven / Kempen 1993 ISBN 90-74271-34-0
  • Tajiri, Shinkichi: De Muur . Catalog of the exhibition Photo Cabinets: Tajiri in the Gemeentemuseum The Hague , 2003.
  • Tajiri, Shinkichi: The Berlin Wall 1969–1972 . Tasba BV, Baarlo, NL, 2005. ISBN 978-9080962910 .

Web links

Commons : Shinkichi Tajiri  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data of Shinkichi Tajiri at art market
personal data
SURNAME Tajiri, Shinkichi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch-American painter, sculptor, and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 2009
Place of death Baarlo