Shigeru Aoki

Shigeru Aoki (Japanese青木 繁; * 1882 in Kurume, Kyushu, † 1911 in Fukuoka, Kyushu ) was a Japanese painter.

Biography

Aoki Shigeru was interested very early for the Western modern painting and the resulting developed Western-influenced art direction Yōga. He left his family at 17 and went to Tokyo to study painting. He worked with Koyama Shotaro together, a pupil of the Italian painter Antonio Fontanesi, which at the Kobu Bijutsu Gakko (Technical Art School Tokyo ) taught, and then went to Kuroda Seiki at the Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakko, the Tokyo Art College, now the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Aoki completed his training in 1904, after he was able to exhibit his paintings as a student, together with the group of artists founded in 1896 Hakubakai to Kuroda.

In addition to painting, Aoki concentrated on literature and unteressierte mainly for Japanese, Indian and European- Christian mythology. About this preference he came to a romantic -influenced style of painting and some of his best known paintings presented history paintings of mythological content dar. These included Tenpyo Era and Harvest of the Sea, both in 1904 emerged and today hang in Tokyo, Bridgestone Museum of Art. Also Ōnamuchi no Mikoto (1905 ) and Palace under the Sea ( 1907) can be seen in this museum and based on mythological content from the Kojiki. For his friend, poet Kanbara Ariake Aoki also could paint some book illustrations, he also painted regularly Sea and coastal landscapes on the coast north of Tokyo.

Aoki Shigeru left Tokyo and returned to Kyushu, where he largely isolated from social life. At only 29, he died in 1911 from pulmonary tuberculosis, and his pictures came up after the second world war into oblivion.

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