Kuroda Seiki
Kuroda Seiki (Japanese黒 田 清辉; born August 9, 1866 in Kagoshima, † July 15, 1924 ) was a Japanese painter of the Yōga style and politician.
Life
Kuroda was born the son of a samurai in Kagoshima, then grew up as an adopted son by his uncle, Viscount Kuroda Kiyotsuna (1830-1917), in Tokyo. As early as 1878 he began under the guidance of Takahashi Yuichi with pencil drawings and watercolors. He learned English and also visited the Foreign Language School in Tokyo. From 1884 he went to France with the aim to study law. In Paris, however, he met Yamamoto Hosui and other Japanese painter and decided to switch to painting in 1886. His teacher was Raphaël Collin.
Work
1893, after nine years back in Japan, he developed a long-span working as an art educator. Together with Kume Heihachiro, whom he knew from Parisian times, he opened a school for Western painting Tenshin dojo. There is a mixture of impressionist and open-air painting was taught. In 1896 he founded alongside the existing west - oriented Meiji bijutsu -kai as a sort of secession, the Hakuba- kai. The company with Kuroda at the top campaigned for a painting of the spontaneous impression as replacement of previously learned academic painting. In 1897 he was appointed as a teacher at the Toyko bijutsu Gakko ( forerunner of today's Tōkyō Daigaku Geijutsu ) and in 1898 was appointed professor. In 1909, the elected as the first painter of Yōga direction as Teishitsu gikei - in. In 1922 he followed Mori Ogai as the second President of the Academy of Fine Arts.
When his adoptive father died in 1917, he became Viscount. In 1920 he was elected to the ( noble ) Upper House of Parliament.
The Japanese Post has Kuroda honored with stamps. Above all, his paintings Maiko is revered as an icon of the painting of the Meiji period. In the National Research Institute of Cultural Properties Tokyo belonging Kuroda Memorial Hall ( Tōkyō, Ueno Park ) pictures and discount will be shown.
" Reader " (1882 )
" By the lake " (1897 )
" Raspberries " (1912 )