KÅshirÅ Onchi
Onchi Koshiro (Japanese恩 地 孝 四郎; born July 2, 1891 † June 3, 1955 ) was a Japanese printmaker and book cover designer. He was the first Japanese man who was concerned with abstract art, was co-founder and central figure of the Sosaku hanga movement.
Life
Onchi was the son of a lawyer at the Imperial Household Agency, which has emerged as a calligrapher and China experts. His mother was a gifted koto player. From 1904 Koshiro visited the Doitsugaku Kyōkai Gakko [NB 1], a school with German at the center, as it should be a doctor on his father's wish. He left the school in 1909, which had also taught him German culture, attended the painting school of Hakubakai, and became friends with Takehisa Yumeji. In 1910 he began an arts degree at the Tōkyō bijutsu Gakko (now Geidai ), but broke his studies in 1915. In 1914 he had begun with the early death Tanaka Kyōkichi (田中恭 吉) and Fujimori Shizuo (藤森 静 雄) to issue the artists' magazine Tsukuhae (月 映, " moonlight "). In 1918 he was involved in the founding of the artists' associations Nihon hanga Sosaku Kyōkai.
1938 Onchi was involved in the broad Nihon hanga Kyokai since 1939 they met in his " company on the first Thursday ". [NB 2] He struggled all his life to the promotion, dissemination and international recognition of Japanese woodcut art.
Artistic Post
1911 Onchi created his first book cover for a book of Socialists Nishikawa Kojiro. He then dealt intensively with book design, in which he was interested in both Western typography and design to the Chinese characters. Book design remained an important theme in his life. In 1915 he created under the impact of the death of brothers and friends the series Joyo (抒情, " compassion "). In 1917, he created illustrations and the cover for Hagiwara Sakutarōs of poems Tsuki ni haeru (月 に 映える, " In the moon light "). Before the Second World War he produced the series "Poems " and began the series " Poetry ", where he among other things, added the woodcut plate with materials to differentiate the prints continue. In 1934 he exhibited in Paris, in Geneva in 1936 and in San Francisco.
Throughout his life created Onchi also woodcuts with representational motifs.
From the series " compassion " (1915 )
" Before the Mirror " (1928 )
Tokyo Central Station (1931 )
" Poem # 19: The Lake " (1952)
" Poetry No. 9 " (1955)