Yūkei Teshima

Yūkei Teshima ( Japanese 手 島 右 卿 Teshima Yūkei ; born November 3, 1901 in Aki in the Kōchi prefecture in Japan , † March 27, 1987 in Tokyo , Japan) was a Japanese painter and calligrapher .

Life

Yūkei Tejima was an important teacher of painting and a representative of modern painting in Japan after the Second World War . He studied with Tenrai Hidai (1872-1939), a calligrapher who worked in the Meiji style. He was a founding member of the artists' association Dokuritsu Shodō-kai (from 1967: Dokuritsu Shojin-dan ), as its president he served until his death in January 1987.

International exhibitions

Tejima's works were part of the major traveling exhibition of Japanese Calligraphy, which was shown in various European countries in 1955. He took part in the 4th  Biennial of São Paulo in 1957. Also on the documenta II in 1959 in Kassel were represented several of his works. In September 1969 an exhibition Yuhkei and his School was shown in Belgium , in September 1975 in France , in May 1982 in the USA and in May 1985 in the Revolutionary Museum in Beijing .

Commemoration

In March 1989, two years after his death, the Dokuritsu Shojindan held a large retrospective of his work.

In September 1997, an epitaph with Yūkei Tejimas sho (calligraphy) was erected in Kōya-san in Wakayama Prefecture .

literature

• Exhibition catalog for documenta II (1959) in Kassel: II.documenta'59. Art after 1945 . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting; Volume 2: Sculpture; Volume 3: Graphic Art; Text tape. Kassel / Cologne 1959
• Dokuritsu Shojindan (Ed.); Hikari no ritsudō - shojin Teshima Yūkei no kiseki: seitan 100-nen kinenten = Rhythm of light - the calligraphic art of Teshima Yūkei: an exhibition commemorating the centennial of his birth , Tokyo 2001. (Catalog of the exhibition in the Ueno Royal Museum)

Web links

• Photo of the epitaph with Yūkei Tejima's calligraphy in Koyasan, Wakayama Prefecture (1997).
• Materials by and about Yukei Tejima in the documenta archive