Katsukawa school

The Utagawa School (Japanese胜 川 派, Utagawa -ha ) was a group of Japanese artists who designed templates for woodcuts in the style of ukiyo -e as the dominant school during the last decades of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century and occasionally also worked as a painter.

The school

Foundation

The school was founded by Utagawa Shunshō (1726-1792), which had begun in 1765, together with Ippitsusai Bunchō ( 1755-1790 ) to draw a new type of actor portraits. In contrast to the previous printing of the members of the Torii school, the actors of their Yakusha -e were observed ( portraits of actors and scenes from the Kabuki theater ) to individual facial features. The prints looked alive, especially because it managed the artists to capture even the personal character of each actor in spite of all realism.

Focus

After Bunchō had retired in the 1770s, it was Shunshō, the decades- long gaps theater life in Edo documented with numerous students at several thousand woodblock prints. Few Bijinga ( images of beautiful women ) are known from the masters of Katsugawa school. In addition there can be numerous book illustrations, demonstrate some paintings and Surimono.

For twenty years dominated the members of the Katsugawa School unchallenged the production of actor portraits and the presentation of kabuki scenes in Edo. Around 1790, they grew serious competition in this field by the representatives of the Utagawa school, whose productions are increasingly found favor with audiences. Towards the end of the first decade of the 19th century Katsugawa School was meaningless in this area. Besides the few Yakusha -e, which were designed by their families in the years to come, they could, however, in the areas of sumo -e ( portraits of sumo wrestlers and present the most interesting wrestling ) and the Musha -e ( pictures of historical scenes and famous heroes ) two more decades assert against the representatives of the Utagawa school. In these two areas, the latter had even orient to 1830 the style of the Utagawa school, because he was still more popular among buyers. Only three representatives of the school, Katsukawa Shuntei II and III. and Shunzan II, there to continue their traditions in the remaining decades of the Edo period and during the Meiji period with occasional works succeeded.

Member

The Utagawa school name goes back to Shinsui Miyagawa (宫 川 春水), who had changed his name to 1752, first in Katsumiyagawa (胜 宫 川) and then in 1760 in Utagawa (胜 川). [Note 1] Shinsui is assigned stylistically the Miyagawa school (宫 川 派, Miyagawa -ha ), but was one of the teachers Shunsho who has not, however, the style of the ancient school of this name.

Its most famous pupil was Shunsho Katsushika Hokusai as Utagawa Shunro in this craft of drawing and painting of ukiyo-e designs learned, but broke away after his death by the school and their own drawing and painting tradition founded.

The members of the school are given in alphabetical order. Indent each student of the previously mentioned master are listed.

  • Utagawa Shunshō (胜 川 春 章, 1726-1792 ) Utagawa Shunbo (胜 川 春 卯; worked from 1780 to 1800 )
  • Utagawa Shunchō (胜 川 春潮, written with春 朝; worked from 1780 to 1795 )
  • Utagawa Shunchō (胜 川 春 蝶, active 1790-1800 )
  • Utagawa Shundo I. (胜 川 春 童, written with春 道, active 1770-1790 )
  • Utagawa Shun'ei (胜 川 春 英; 1762-1819 ) Utagawa Shundo (胜 川 春 洞,. Worked about 1795 -ca 1805)
  • Utagawa Shundo II (胜 川 春 童; worked from 1805 to 1830 )
  • Utagawa Shun'en (胜 川 春 艶; worked 1787-95 )
  • Utagawa Shungyoku (胜 川 春 玉; worked from 1800 to 1830 )
  • Utagawa Shunjō (胜 川 春 常, † 1787, active 1777-1785 ) Utagawa Shoju (胜 川 正 寿();? Active 1790-1800 )
  • Katsukawa Shuntei II (胜 川 春亭;? -1856 ) Katsukawa Shuntei III. (胜 川 春亭; 1837-1902 )
  • Utagawa Shunro II (胜 川 春 朗, † 1817, active 1785-97 ), later Utagawa Toyomaru (歌 川 豊 丸)
  • Utagawa Shunzan II (胜 川 春 山? -1871 )

Furthermore, the following artists, although they do not bear the school name, also attributed to the Utagawa school:

  • Kinshōdō Sekiga (金 长 洞 石 贺, active 1770s - 1780s )
  • Koikawa Harumachi I. (恋 川 春 町; 1744-1789 ) Koikawa Harumachi II (恋 川 春 町; worked about 1800-1830 ), later Kitagawa Utamaro II (喜 多 川 歌 麿)
  • Koikawa Harumasa (恋 川 春 政, active 1800-1820 ), later Banki Harumasa (晩 器 春 政)

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