Yumeji Takehisa
Takehisa Yumeji (Japanese竹 久 梦 二; * January 16, 1884, † September 1, 1934 ) was a Japanese painter and poet.
Life
Yumeji was born the son of a sake dealer in Oku (today than Okuchō district of Setouchi ) in Okayama Prefecture as Shigejiro Takehisa. During his studies in 1902 at the School Tōkyō (the predecessor of Waseda University), his drawings were in the newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, among others Sheets printed. From 1905 he was able to make regular drawings for printed products of the publishing Heiminsha by referring a friend. From this time he led the first names Yumeji. He led a life bohèmehaftes, where he entered into a closer relationship with some of its models.
In May 1931 Yumeji traveled to California where he has exhibited and lectured. From there he traveled in September 1932 aboard the German cargo ship Takoma through the Panama Canal to Hamburg, is held two months in Berlin and visited various countries in Europe, always busy drawing. After his return to Japan in late 1933, he contracted tuberculosis and died the following year. His grave is located on the Zōshigaya Cemetery, Tokyo.
Style and effect
Yumeji was his pictures that reflect the feeling of the famous Taishō democracy Taishō Romanticism. In addition to the young girl in a kimono and the moga (modern girl ) is west - fashionable shown: self-confident, but also vulnerable. The influence of Art Deco, who was then found its way into Japan, felt in Yumeji. The majority of his works are prints, watercolor drawings, gouaches, but there are also oil paintings from him. A self-taught outside the established art market standing, he lived among other things, illustrations, book and music book cover designs as well as the design a part of his watercolors was published as a print, but in which the subtleties of the original was lost. From his poetic works, especially his poem dreistrophiges Yoimachigusa is unforgettable. This is actually the name of a flower, which can be represented " waiting for the good, Desired " with.
After his death, he fell into disuse, but was rediscovered in the 1960s. The post dedicated to him a stamp with the famous picture " Kurofuneya ". Today at different places vying with each other museums, such as in the city of Okayama the Yumeiji Art Museum (梦 二 郷 土 美术馆, Yumeji Kyodo Bijutsukan ), in Tokyo, the Yumeji Takehisa Museum (梦 二 美术馆, Yumeji Bijutsukan ) in the visited by Yumeji, for its hot springs famous Ikaho the (竹 久 梦 二 伊 香 保 记念 馆, Takehisa Yumeji Ikaho Kinenkan ).
" Kurofuneya " (1919)
Drawing to " Yoimachi - gusa "