Shinkichi Tajiri

Shinkichi Tajiri ( born December 7, 1923 in Los Angeles, † 14 March, 2009 Baarlo ) lived in Baarlo in Venlo, the Netherlands, and was a Dutch- American painter, sculptor and photographer of Japanese descent.

Tajiri was born in 1923, the son of Japanese parents in Los Angeles. After his internment as a result of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Tajiri joined the U.S. Army and came up with the military intervention of the U.S. in the Second World War for the first time to Europe.

After the end of the war he studied 1947/1948 at the Art Institute in Chicago. Then Tajiri went to Paris and met with the sculptor Ossip Zadkine and with the painter Fernand Léger. Later he started together with the artists of the group COBRA issue. He took part in Amsterdam at the big COBRA exhibition 1949 at the Stedelijk Museum.

In 1956, Tajiri moved to Amsterdam and lived and worked there until 1962. Then he moved with his wife and their two daughters to Ferdi Maasbree / Baarlo near Venlo in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands he worked (painter and writer / lyricist ) and Corneille, among others, with the artists Constant, Karel Appel, Lucebert. The garden in the Cobra Museum ( Amstelveen, The Netherlands ) was applied by him.

In addition to the sculpture and painting Shinkichi Tajiri also worked as a photographer and filmmaker. As a photographer, he was also involved in the art of the daguerreotype. Tajiri took part in documenta II ( 1959), Documenta III (1964 ), and also the documenta 4 in Kassel in 1968.

Tajiri in 1969 received the appointment to a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin. He was also a guest lecturer at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Tajiri constantly focused on the development and experimenting with different techniques. In photography, he has rediscovered the daguerreotype. He has his own offset printing process called " X -Press" developed and began recently to experiment with computer drawings.

Sources and Literature

  • ( Leonard Freed / Shinkichi Tajiri ): Strange games; As the sculptor Tajiri girls and metals tames. A photo book by Leonard Freed. Bärmeier & Nikel, Frankfurt, 1970. Text by Herbert Feuerstein.
  • Tajiri, Shinkichi: The Wall. The wall. Le mur. Baarlo, NL, 1971. Very small edition.
  • Mirror met herinneringen: 101 daguerreotypieen van Tajiri. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1976.
  • Mirror with memories. Shinkichi Tjiris rediscovery of the daguerreotype. Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 1977.
  • Tajiri, Shinkichi: Autobiographical Notations - Autobiographical aantekeningen: Words and Images - Woorden s beelden. Eindhoven / Kempen 1993 ISBN 90-74271-34-0
  • Tajiri, Shinkichi: De Muur. Catalog of the exhibition Photo cabinets: Tajiri at the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, 2003.
  • Tajiri, Shinkichi: The Berlin Wall 1969-1972. Tasba BV, Baarlo, NL, 2005. ISBN 978-9080962910.
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