Yamashita Shintaro

Yamashita Shintaro, 1904

Yamashita Shintarō ( Japanese 山下 新 太郎 ; born August 29, 1881 in Tokyo ; died April 11, 1966 ) was a Japanese painter in the Yōga style during the Taishō and Shōwa periods .

life and work

Yamashita, born in Tokyo, graduated from Tōkyō ( 東京 美術 学校 , Tōkyō bijtsu gakkō ), the forerunner of the Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku , in 1904 . In 1905 he went to France, where he trained under Raphaël Collin and then at the state art college under Fernand Cormon . He occupied himself with Italian and Spanish painting, and Velázquez in particular attracted him. After five years in France, he returned to Japan in 1910, bringing back an extensive collection of pictures.

At the 4th art exhibition of the Ministry of Culture, called “Bunten” ( 文 展 ) for short , in 1910, Yamashita showed the pictures “Reading Woman” ( 読 書 , Dokusho ), “Reading Break” ( 読 書 の 後 , Dokusho no ato ) and “Woman , Schuh ausziehend ”( 靴 の 女 , Kutsu no onna ) and received 3rd prize for“ Reading Woman ”. At the 5th exhibition he also received 3rd prize for the picture “At the window” ( 窓 際 , Madogiwa ). - In 1914 he founded the artist community Nika-kai ( 二 科 Künstler ) together with Ishii Hakutei , Sakamoto Hanjirō , Arishima Ikuma and others . From 1931 to 1932 he stayed in France again, where he received the Légion d'honneur . In 1936 Yamashita helped found the Issui-kai.

After 1945, Yamashita was the director and juror of the Nitten Art Exhibition and an advisor to the National Museum of Modern Art . In 1955 he was honored as a person with special cultural merits .

Yamashita was one of the Japanese artists who brought Impressionism to Japan. He painted European subjects in the academic style of the end of the 19th century, combined this with a touch of open air painting and with influences from Derain and Renoir .

photos

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  At the window, 1908

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  "Nude", 1908

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  Woman reading, 1908

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  Reading break, 1908

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  "Woman taking off her shoe", 1910

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  "Nomura Yuriko", 1928

Remarks

1. ↑ Self-portrait, the usual topic for the thesis at the Tōkyō School of Art.
2. ↑ Issui-kai ( 一 水 会 ) means "meeting (kai) on the 1st (ichi / is) Wednesday (sui [yōbi]) of the month".
3. ↑ This picture was shown at the exhibition Japanese Painting in Western Style 1985 in the Museum for East Asian Art in Cologne.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} National Museum of Modern Art
2. ↑ Artizon Museum .
3. ↑ Sen-oku Hakkokan
4. ^ Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art

literature

• Japan Foundation (Ed.): Japanese Painting in the Western Style, 19th and 20th Centuries. Exhibition catalog, Cologne, 1985.
• National Museum of Modern Art. Tokyo (ed.): Kindai Nihon no Bijutsu . Toyko, 1984.
• Laurance P. Roberts: Yamashita Shintarō . In: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .

Web links

Commons : Yamashita Shintarō  - 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 . Thus, Yamashita is the family name, Shintarō the first name.