Takayama Tatsuo

Takayama Tatsuo ( Japanese 高山 辰 雄 ; born June 26, 1912 in Ōita ; died September 14, 2007 ) was a Japanese painter of the Nihonga direction during the Shōwa period .

life and work

Takayama Tatsuo was born in Ōita. From 1931 he attended the Tokyo Art School (東京 美術 学校, Tōkyō bijutsu gakkō), the forerunner of the Geidai , where he studied under Matsuoka Eikyū (1881-1931). During his studies he was awarded for a picture on the 15th page . His name has now been mentioned along with other promising young artists such as Yamamoto Kyūjin , Sugiyama Yasushi and Hashimoto Meiji . After completing his training, Takayama rarely took part in the Shin Bunten exhibition , but devoted his time to work in the sense of the "Rusō Gasha" (瑠 爽 画 社), an association established in 1935 by Yamamoto, Sugiyama, Urata Masuo and others was founded. After this group disbanded in 1941, Takayama joined the group “Issai-sha” (一 采 社) - “One Color Society” - founded by Urata, Nojima Seiji and others, and stood up for them with all his might a.

After the World War , Takayama showed his pictures on the Nitten , and his pictures attracted increasing attention from 1946 onwards. After that he began to create pictures with very thick layers of paint, which was then called the Issai style. These pictures are somewhat reminiscent of the Post-Impressionists, such as Gaugin . - In 1960 Takayama received the Prize of the Japanese Academy of Arts , in 1965 the Minister of Education's Prize (芸 術 選 奨 文 部 大臣 賞, Geijutsu senshō Mombudaijin shō) and in 1972 he became a member of the Academy of Arts. In 1979 he was honored as a person with special cultural merits and was awarded the Order of Culture in 1982.

Takayama's representative works include “Vault of Heaven” (穹, Kyū; 1964) in the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo and “Interior” (室内, Shitsunai; 1952) owned by the artist. In 1981 he designed a series of ten black and white lithographs under the title "Unlimited Ōita - ten views" (限 り な き 大分 そ の 十景. Kagirinaki Ōita, sono jikkei).

Since 1983, on the occasion of Takayama's award with the Order of Culture the year before, the annual “Art Exhibition by Young People of the Ōita Prefecture in Memory of Takayama Tatsuo” (高山 辰 雄 賞 ジ ュ ニ ア 県 美展, Takayama Tatsuo Shō Junia Kembiten) has been held.

literature

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

Web links (images)

In the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, u. a .:

• Takayama Tatsuo 白 翳 (Hakuei) "Light Shadow" (1959)
• Takayama Tatsuo 穹 (Kyū) "Vault of Heaven" (1964)
• Takayama Tatsuo い だ く (Idaku) "Meal" (1977)

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