Fujishima Takeji

Fujishima Takeji (Japanese藤 岛 武 二, born September 18, 1867 in Kagoshima, † March 19, 1943 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese painter who primarily for his paintings in the modern Japanese Nihonga with elements of modern European painting, especially impressionism, is known.

Biography

Fujishima Takeji studied Nihonga, the modern Japanese painting, and moved to Tokyo in 1884, where he was admitted as a student of Shijō Teacher Kawabata Gyokusho. Around 1890 he moved to Yōga, the painting in the Western style, and studied here together with Soyama Yukihiko and Yamamoto Hosui. 1896 Yōga was as Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakko course at the (Tokyo School of Fine Arts ) of today's Tōkyō Daigaku Geijutsu added Fujishima and became an assistant professor at Kuroda Seiki. Around the same time he was also a member of the artist association Hakubakai to Kuroda, the "Company White Horse ". About Kuroda he came to Impressionism and the plein- air painting, at the same time, he was heavily influenced by the Art Nouveau and the styles of the fin de siècle.

In 1890 Fujishima painted cover illustrations for the magazine Myojo, to German "Morning Star ". He was known by oil paintings such as In Praise of the Tempyo Era 1902 and butterflies 1906. In these images, he joined the European styles with the Japanese Nihonga. Even in his later works, he tried to maintain this connection by depicting simplifies the elements of nature.

From 1905 to 1909 Fujishima traveled with permission and grant from the Japanese Ministry of Education to Europe to study in Paris and Rome. He met here on Fernand Cormon and Emile Auguste Carolus- Duran, with whom he worked and learned. 1908/ 09 was the impressionistic image of a Black fan of his most famous images, the same year he painted the pond, Villa d' Este. Years later, in 1926, he also joined the European Renaissance painting, which he met on this trip, with the Asian and painted Orchid, the portrait of a woman in a Chinese dress.

After his return to Japan was Fujishima professor at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, where he sought both to the students and the professional organization of exhibitions. In the 1930s emerged with Japanese landscape motifs and clear, broad brushstrokes, the Surging Waves at Daio Point in 1932 and terraced fields in 1938.

In 1937 he was among the first artists to be awarded to the newly assigned Order of Culture.

Image selection

• In Praise of the Tempyo Era. 1902; Ishibashi Art Museum in Kurume
• Butterflies 1906; private Collection
• Yacht 1908; Tokyo School of Fine Arts
• Black subjects 1908/1909; Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo
• Weiher, Villa d' Este 1908/1909; Tokyo School of Fine Arts
• Orchid 1926; private Collection
• Terraced fields in 1938; Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki