Hasegawa TÅhaku
Hasegawa Tohaku (Japanese长谷川 等 伯; * 1539 in the province of Noto (today: Nanao ), † 1610 in Edo ) was a Japanese painter during the Azuchi - Momoyama period. He created ink drawings, colored portraits, wildlife and nature paintings.
Career
Hasegawa began his artistic career with drawings of Buddhist monasteries in the province of Noto. He went to Kyoto, when he was about 30 years old, where he developed his own style of ink painting, which emerged from the Kano school, but the drawings and large-scale decorative executed. He worked on folding screens and sliding doors and was thus in competition with the popular Kano Eitoku, with whom he fought for the favor of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered him to Edo, where he died.
Folding screen pine forest
Around 1590 he created the setting screen pair pine forest (松林 図, Shorin -to, dt " pine grove - portrait" ), a pair of each six-part ink drawings on paper, which are located in the Tokyo National Museum. The work is one of the national treasures of Japan. Each screen is approximately 1.50 m × 3.50 m tall. The pines are drawn in ink strokes in different shades of gray. Hasegawa used different, partially bundled brush and spliced at the end of bamboo sticks. The pines stand in groups in the fog, partly come out of him and escape into the background. The shape of the trees reveals itself to the viewer only from a distance, the haze created by the unpainted points of the paper. The work served Hiroshi Sugimoto 2001 as a template for the work of Pine Trees in which he converts the six -part structure, and the subject with photographs of pine trees from the Imperial Palace Gardens in Tokyo. The Rietberg Museum in Zurich devoted to the painter in 2000 a solo exhibition in the pine forest was for 6 weeks to see.