Yodoi Toshio

Yodoi Toshio ( Japanese 淀 井 敏夫 ; born February 15, 1911 in Asako ( Hyōgo Prefecture ); died February 14, 2005 ) was a Japanese sculptor of the Shōwa period .

life and work

Yodoi Toshio graduated from the Osaka Technical School ( 大阪 工業 学校 Ōsaka Kōgyō Gakkō ) and then studied from 1928 at the sculpture department of the "Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō", the forerunner of the Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku (short form "Geidai"). Already during his training he was able to show the sculpture "Standing Man" ( 男 立 像 ) on the state Teiten . After graduating, he exhibited at the Kokuga-kai ( 国画 会 ) and other associations, but from 1936 only at the Nika-kai ( 二 科 会 ). From 1936 he taught at his old school in Osaka for five years.

In 1958, Yodoi's work "Portrait of an Old Man" ( 老人 胸像 Rōjin Kyōzō ) was awarded by the Nika-kai, of which he became a member in 1951. In the same year he began to teach at Geidai, from 1965 as a professor. In 1966 his work "Heiliger Mantelpavian" ( 聖 マ ン ト ヒ ヒ ) was purchased by the Minister of Education. For this work he received the first Hirakushi Denchū Prize in 1972 . In 1977 he was awarded the Academy of Arts Prize for his work "Park in Rome" ( ロ ー マ の 公園 Rōma no kōen ), which he had exhibited the year before at Nika-kai . Yodoi became a member of the Academy of Arts in 1982, was honored as a person with special cultural merits in 1994, became President of Nika-kai in 1998 and received the Order of Culture in 2001 .

In 1999 the “Yodoi Toshio Memorial Museum” ( 淀 井 敏夫 記念 館 ) at the Mori Museum was opened in his hometown .

Remarks

1. ↑ The work, set up on a green strip in Marunouchi (Tōkyō), depicts a long-legged woman sitting on a bench with her child.

Web links (images)

At the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo :

• Sculpture "Heiliger Mantelpavian" 1966

literature

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

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