Sanzo Wada
Sanzo Wada (Japanese和田 三 造, March 3, 1883 in Ikuno, Asago District, Hyōgo Prefecture, † August 22, 1967 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese painter and costume designer who won an Oscar for Best Costume Design at the Academy Awards in 1955 a color film won.
Life
Sanzo Wada attended the daimyo Elementary School in Fukuoka and in 1897 became the Shūyūkan Middle School of Fukuoka prefecture. After finishing school he began in 1899 to study painting at the renowned painter Kuroda Seiki, the end of the 19th century and early 20th century introduced Western elements in Japanese art and thus the school of Western painting ( Yōga ) coined. In 1901 he moved to the Academy of Art Tokyo ( Tōkyō today Geijutsu Daigaku ) and met artists such as Shigeru Aoki know. In 1902 he settled first on the Pacific island of Hachijo -jima, and then click Izu - Oshima, where he began southerly wind with his painting cycle.
After returning to Tokyo, he began in 1904 to study at the local school of Fine Arts, presented in 1907 with funding from the Ministry of Education for the first time his paintings publicly and received several awards for it. During this time he also had contact with the active in the Japanese Empire ultranationalist organization Gen'yōsha. At the invitation of the French Ministry of Education in 1909, he undertook an educational trip to Europe, where he worked on crafts, design, and an early film. Later he studied 1914-1915 Oriental art in Burma and India.
In the following years he organized for the Academy of arts exhibitions and dealt early 1920s with studies on color theory. He also dealt in 1923 with the study of the Orientalists of Ernest Fenollosa Francisco and the art historian Okakura Kakuzo 1890 introduced Malstilrichtung Nihonga before he created in 1924 large murals in the official residence of the Governor-General in Korea. For his services to Japanese painting, he was a member of the Academy of Arts in 1927.
Also in 1927, he sat down by the establishment of a society for the standardization of colors for the introduction of standards. The results of his research into color theory, he published the book in light of the entire color ( 1931) and took over in 1932 a professor of design at the Art Academy in Tokyo, where he taught until 1944. After 1945, the Japanese Institute for Color Research was reorganized as a society for color standardization, he was its president and led in this capacity in 1951, the first Japanese color standard card.
In 1953 he was instrumental in the production of color film produced by the film production company Daiei film The Gates of Hell ( Jigokumon ) of Kinugasa Teinosuke with Machiko Kyo, Kazuo Hasegawa and Isao Yamagata with in the lead roles as a costume designer and color consultant and won this at the Academy Awards 1955 Oscar for best Costume Design.
In his last years he also dealt with the Sumi -e, the black and white Japanese ink painting and in 1958 was appointed as the person with special cultural merits.
His best-known works, including paintings such as hope Oshima (1907 ), to the south (1907 ), Too Much (1933 ), Self- Massage (1936 ), Possible rain on the Sumida River (1937 ), Koa Mandala ( 1940) and Poppy (1960 ) belong to the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery and the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art are in the National Museum of Modern Art exhibited.