Yamamoto Kyūjin

Yamamoto Kyūjin ( Japanese 山 本 丘 人 , real first name: Masayoshi ( 正義 ); born April 15, 1900 in the city ​​of Tokyo (today: Tokyo ); died February 10, 1986 ) was a Japanese painter of the Nihonga direction in the Shōwa -Time .

life and work

Yamamoto was after graduating from the Department of Nihonga at the Tokyo Art Academy ( 東京 美術 学校 Tōkyō bijutsu gakkō ) pupil of Matsuoka Eikyū ( 松岡 映 丘 ; 1881-1938). The second syllable, the kyū, took over from his stage name . In 1929 he joined the Shinkō Yamato-e Kai ( 進行 大 和 絵 会 ), in which Eikyū's students had come together to further develop the traditional art of Yamato-e . So he too began to paint landscapes in this style. With other students of Matsuoka Eikyū, Sugiyama Yasushi , Kamada Masao, Okada Noboru, Matsuoka Sadao and others, he founded the association called Rusō Gasha ( 瑠 爽 画 社 ) in 1934 with the aim of developing new forms. He submitted pictures to the Teiten and the Shin-Bunten and won an award in 1936 that increased his recognition. In 1943 he organized the Kokudo-kai ( 国土 会 ) with friends and in 1944 also became an assistant professor at his university, together with Okumura Togyū .

1948 founded Yamamoto, together with Uemura Shōkō , Yoshioka Kenji and others, the "creative arts" ( 創造 美術 Sōzō bijutsu ), which later became part of the “New Creative Association” ( 新 製作 派 協会 Shin seisaku-ha kyōkai ). Kyūjin left the association in 1974 and founded a new society, the Sōga-kai ( 創 画 会 ).

Kyūjin's landscapes, which dynamically show the changing seasons, reflect a deep poetry and a very personal view of the world. In 1950 he won the Minister of Education's Prize ( 藝術 選 奨 文 部 大臣 賞 Geijutsu senshō mombu daijin shō ), in 1964 the Prize of the Japanese Academy of Arts , was elevated to a person with special cultural merits in 1977 and was also awarded the Order of Culture . in the same year he founded the "Society of the White Rainbow" ( 白 虹 会 , Hakkō-kai) together with Sugiyama, Takayama Tatsuo and Higashiyama Kaii .

Representative works are “Landscape in the Sunset” ( 夕 焼 け 山水 Yūyake sansui ; 1961) in the Riccar Art Museum (Tōkyō) and “Fields in the Fog” ( 砂 霧 野 Sagiri no ; 1970) in the National Museum of Modern Art in Tōkyō. - In 1988 the “Yamamoto Kyūjin Memorial Museum” ( 山 本 丘 人 記念 館Yamamoto Kyūjin kinenkan ) was opened in Oyama in Shizuoka Prefecture .

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} Teiten ( 帝 展 ) is the abbreviation for the annual state art exhibition ( 帝国 美術展 覧 会 Teikoku bijutsu-in tenrankai ) between 1919 and 1935. The predecessor from 1907 to 1918 was called Bunten ( 文 展 ) for Mombushō bijutsu tenrankai ( 文部省美術展 覧 会 ), the successor from 1936 to 1944 was preceded by a shin ( 新 ) for “new”.

literature

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

Web links

• Yamamoto Kyūjin Memorial Museum (Japanese)
• Yamamoto Museum: selection of images

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