Ohara Museum of Art

The Ohara Museum of Art (Japanese大 原 美术馆, Ohara Bijutsukan ) in Kurashiki ( Okayama Prefecture ) was the first museum in Japan, which dealt almost exclusively with French art of the 19th and 20th centuries. After several extensions, the museum also has important collections of modern Japanese art.

History

The entrepreneur Magosaburō Ohara (大 原 孙三郎, 1880-1943 ), was the acquisition of Western art interested and settled here by the painter Kojima Torajirō ( 1881-1929 ) and the French artist Edmond Aman -Jean ( 1860-1935 ) advised. The main building with a front end in the style of a Greek temple, beautifully situated on the tree- willows Kurashikigawa, was opened in 1930. 1961 another building was erected behind the main building for Japanese paintings from the first half of the 20th century and a building for ceramics of the 20th century. In 1963, a wing for woodcuts of Munakata and for color printing work of Serizawa it. Today these latter two buildings form the "House of Arts and Crafts " ( Kogeikan ). Finally in 1972 the " Kojima Torajirō Memorial Hall " was built on the ivy-covered "Ivory Square", the center of Ohara 's former weaving mill - building complex.

The outgrown "temple" has been transformed and expanded. The garden surrounding the farmhouses, make a relaxing visit possible.

The Collection

In addition to the many artists of the " Ecole de Paris ", under which even those are not as well-known just because of their smaller business scope is mainly El Greco with an excellent work " Annunciation", Ferdinand Hodler with a " lumberjack " version, Munch with numerous print seen. Rodin and Bourdelle (including Beethoven bust ) are represented by well-known sculptures. The Japanese are well represented with paintings, woodcuts of Munakata. In the arts and crafts section contains in addition Serizawa potters Tomimoto, Leach, Hamada and Kawai well represented, the latter being particularly comprehensive to see.

Western artists (selection)

Japanese painter (selection)

  • Takeji Fujishima (藤 岛 武 二; 1867-1943 )
  • Mitsutani Kunijirō (満 谷 国 四郎; 1874-1936 )
  • Narashige Koide (小 出 楢 重; 1887-1931 )
  • Yasui Sotaro (安井 曽 太郎, 1888-1955 )
  • Ryūzaburū Umehara (梅 原 龙 三郎; 1888-1986 )
  • Yuzo Saeki (佐伯佑 三, 1898-1928 )
  • Munakata Shiko (栋 方志 功; 1903-1975 )

Craft

  • Tomimoto Kenkichi (富 本 宪 吉; 1886-1963 )
  • Bernard Leach (1887-1979)
  • Kanjiro Kawai (河 合 寛 次郎; 1890-1966 )
  • Shoji Hamada (浜 田庄 司; 1894-1978 )
  • Serizawa Keisuke (芹 沢 銈 介, 1895-1984 )
Kurashiki, Okayama Edvard Munch Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Fujishima Takeji
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