Ryūsei Kishida

Kishida Ryusei (Japanese岸 田 刘 生; born June 23, 1891December 20, 1929 ) was a Japanese painter.

Life

Kishida was born the son of the journalist Kishida Ginko in Tōkyō. His father, who, inter alia, James Curtis Hepburn published the first Japanese-English dictionary, offered the son a stimulating environment. However, Kishida lost age of 14 both parents, so that the living conditions were difficult. He came into contact with the Christian Church and was baptized at 15. At 17, he attended led by Kuroda Seiki private art school, which mediated a study of Western art.

1910 could Kishida show in the annual exhibition Hakubai first works. In 1911 he met Mushanokoji Saneatsu, back in Japan the great inspirer and promoter of European art. Kishida described the meeting as a second birthday. He made some front pages for Mushanokōjis magazine Shirakaba ( Birch ), who then devoted an entire issue to him. Kotaro Takemura et al with Bernard Leach he founded in 1911 Fyūzan -kai. With his own small publishing company, Sodo - sha, he sought to secure his livelihood. In 1922, he joined, inspired by Umehara Ryūsaburō, in the artist group Shunyo -kai one, two years later, however, due to disagreements again. In 1926 he moved away from Tōkyō and settled near Kamakura ( Kanagawa Prefecture ). In 1929 he was in Manchuria.

Kishida died after a short illness in late 1929, 38 years old.

Aftereffect

Kishida painted his images in a fast-changing time. Thus we find late Impressionism, Fauvism, but also recourse to Chardin or the German Renaissance painting. In his last years Kishida began to care for painted Ukiyo -e and for Nihonga.

The painting The puncture has its place in Japanese art history of time: On the hard carved into the natural puncture on the edge of Tōkyō falls a shadow, not the shadow of a tree, but the one line mast with its support. Modern times with their duality are made visible. - Very well known are the many pictures of his 1914 -born daughter Reiko. The famous oil painting of her is held in the Renaissance style, with Reiko's hand position indicates unmistakably to Dürer's self-portrait as a young man. Kishidas self-portraits are more reminiscent of Holbein. In later years he became interested also painted Ukiyo -e and for classic Japanese ink painting.

" Mushanokoji " (1914 )

" The puncture " (1915 )

" Reiko, 5 years " (1918 )

"Pumpkin & Aubergine " (1926 )

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