Hiroshi Yoshida
Hiroshi Yoshida (Japanese吉田 博, born September 19, 1876 in Kurume, † April 5, 1950 ) was a Japanese painter and woodcut artist.
Career
Yoshida was the son of a samurai Ueda Tsukane in Kurume ( Kyushu ) born. His family moved often, which meant that travel, as he later said, was his second nature. One of his teachers, Yoshida Kasaburo, recognized his talent and adopted him. 1893 Yoshida studied painting in western style with Tamura Soritsu in Kyoto. In 1894 he went to Tōkyō and continued his education at the private Fudosha school.
In 1899 he traveled to the USA and had an exhibition in Boston with his watercolors, which were well received. He now had enough money to travel to Europe and visit France, Switzerland, Italy and Germany. He first traveled back to the U.S., before returning to Japan. 1903-06 he was back on the road in the U.S. and in Europe.
In 1910 he was for the first time in the jury of the Bunte exhibition (it was the fourth) selected. In 1920 he got to know Shôzaburô Watanabe and produced for him the first template for a woodcut. When in 1923 when the Great Kanto Earthquake Watanabe printing blocks were lost, he fled to a certain extent with his wife in the United States, traveled to Europe, until he returned to Japan in August 1925.
In 1929 he traveled to India and Southeast Asia. He continued his successful exhibition activities, and continued to be the jury of the renamed Teiten annual state fair working. During the war he was sent as a painter to China and brought back drawings for woodcuts.
1946 appeared his last woodcut " A farmhouse ". In 1947 he became president of the Artists' Association Taiheiyo gakai. In October 1949, he fell ill and died in April of next year.
Work
Yoshida started his career with watercolors. When he then in 1920 moved on to the woodcut, he tried to transfer the fine gradations of watercolor on the woodcut. Initially he created templates for Watanabe, he founded his own printing press around 1925. He signed his music then " withdrawn himself " with ( Jizuri ), strictly speaking, where he oversaw only the print carefully. It should have been up to 60 printing occurs ( with each plate several times) for a sheet to realize the subtle shades.
Yoshida has almost exclusively concerned with the rendering of landscapes and places, where he captured his motives worldwide.
Most Yoshida is assigned to the Shin hanga movement, but its western style and the execution of his prints make it a special case.
View from Komagatake (1928 )
Fuji from Funatsu from (1928 )