Shunsuke Matsumoto
Shunsuke Matsumoto (Japanese松本 竣 介; * April 19, 1912, † June 8, 1948 ) was a Japanese painter in Yōga style.
Life
Matsumoto Shunsuke was born as Saitō Shunsuke (斎 藤 俊 介) in Tokyo. 1914 his father moved for professional reasons with the family first to Hanamaki in Iwate Prefecture and the prefectural capital in Morioka. With 16 years Shunsuke won there at a school exhibition with a landscape drawing a price. When his brother in 1929 decided to study the German language in Tokyo, his mother moved with him also to Tokyo. He stopped but his life contact to Morioka.
In Tokyo, he attended the private school of painting of the " Taiheiyo Gakkai KENKYUSHO " (太平洋 学会 研究所). In 1936 he married and took the name of his wife, Matsumoto, at [NB 1] and thereby changed the first character of his first name, with the same pronunciation.
During World War II he remained from military deployment spared, but had to temporarily set as the working force. The end of 1947 he fell ill and died in June of the following year.
Life's work
Matsumoto was early drawings and paintings productive, handed a self-portrait (oil on canvas), with 16 years painting itself on the season. When he arrived in Tokyo on exhibitions and literature of Western art in contact, he first took influences of French modernism, Rouault, and Modigliani. Then, influenced him George Grosz with its combination of drawing and painting, which Matsumoto in his " blue period " processed, but without accepting the socially critical issue. In the 40's cityscapes were his subject, which he was always drawing on the go. The oil paintings that were created on the basis of his drawings give, invariably a dull sky again, perhaps as an indication of the interwar period. Not only the city, even people, portraits are among his works. In recent years, dominated in his oil paintings a burning red against a dark background.
Influenced by the Northern European Expressionism has found both his urban landscapes, and in its figurative depictions its distinctive style Matsumoto.
Channel map ( c. 1942)
Channel ( 1943)
A woman ( c. 1946)
Around St. Nicholas ( c. 1947)