Wada Eisaku

Wada Eisaku

"The Echo", 1902

Wada Eisaku ( Japanese 和田 英 作 ; born December 23, 1874 in Kagoshima Prefecture ; died January 3, 1959 ) was a Japanese painter in the "western" Yōga style of the Meiji , Taishō and early Shōwa periods . From 1932 to 1936 he was director of the Tōkyō School of Art, the forerunner of the Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku .

life and work

Wada came to Tokyo in 1891, studied first under Soneyama Yukihiko ( 曽 山 幸 彦 ; born 1859), then under Harada Naojirō in his training center "Shōbikan" ( 鐘 美 館 ). From 1894 he trained under Kuroda Seiki and under Kume Keiichirō in his school Tenshin-dōjō ( 天真 道場 ).

In 1896 Wada was appointed assistant professor at the Tōkyō School of Art, but he gave up the position to continue training at the Department of Western Painting. After graduating in 1899 he went to Germany and the following year to Paris. Like other Japanese, he had Raphaël Collin as a teacher there.

After his return in 1903, Wada became a professor at his old art school. He was a member of the jury at the Ministry of Culture's annual art exhibition from 1907 onwards. Between the world wars he was twice in France. In 1932 he became director of the art school. In 1936 he contributed a picture for the Meiji Memorial Gallery depicting the proclamation of the constitution.

In 1943 Wada was awarded the Order of Culture and in 1951 subsequently honored as a person with special cultural merits .

photos

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  Princess Soto'ori, 1905

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  Portrait of Koganei Yoshikiyo , 1910

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  Morning on Mount Fuji , 1917

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  Tulips, 1927

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  Proclamation of the Constitution, 1936

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  At the Chiryū Shrine, 1952

Remarks

1. ↑ Koganei (1859-1944) was a physician and anthropologist.
2. ↑ Wada painted a number of Fuji pictures, mostly very academic.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Owned by Sen'oku Hakkokan

literature

• Tokyo-to bijutsukan, Kyoto-shi bijutsukan, Asahi Shimbun (ed.): Wada Eisaku . In: Kindai Nihon bijtsu no ayumi ten. Exhibition 1979.
• Laurance P. Roberts: Wada Eisaku . In: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .

Web links

Commons : Wada Eisaku  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Wada is the family name, Eisaku the first name.