ART PLATFORM JAPAN Research Portal for Art in Japan by NCAR

東郷青児TŌGŌ Seiji

1897-04-28 – 1978-04-25

A1643

  • Names

    東郷青児

    TŌGŌ Seiji (index name)

    Tōgō Seiji (display name)

    東郷青児 (Japanese display name)

    とうごう せいじ (transliterated hiragana)

  • Date of birth
    1897-04-28
  • Birth place
    Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture
  • Date of death
    1978-04-25
  • Death place
    Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Prefecture
  • Gender
    male
  • Fields of activity
    Painting

2019
Tokyo Bunkazai Kenkyūjo (Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties). “Tōgō Seiji.” Nihon Bijutsu Nenkan Shosai Bukkosha Kiji. Last modified 2019-06-06. (in Japanese). https://www.tobunken.go.jp/materials/bukko/9668.html

日本美術年鑑 / Year Book of Japanese Art

日本芸術院会員、二科会会長の洋画家東郷青児は、4月25日午後2時8分、急性心不全のため旅行中入院先の熊本市熊本大附属病院で死去した。享年80であった。東郷青児は、本名を鉄春、明治30年(1897)に鹿児島市の旧島津藩士の家に生まれ、幼年時代に上京、青山学院中学部を卒業した。中学時代から絵画の勉強をはじめたが、中学4年ころか、竹久夢二展をみて感激し夢二宅にも出入りしたが、大正3年にベルリンから帰国し...

「東郷青児」『日本美術年鑑』昭和54年版(287-291頁)

Wikipedia

Seiji Togo (東郷 青児, Tōgō Seiji, 1897–1978) was a Japanese painter and artist known for his depiction of the female form. Born in Kagoshima Prefecture Japan, he graduated from middle school at Aoyama Gakuin University and displayed his first one-man show at Hibiya Art Museum at the age of 18. He later participated in the Futurist movement while studying in France. In 1928 he returned to Japan and was awarded the 1st Showa Western Art Promotion Award.In 1957 Togo received the Japan Art Academy Award, and in 1961 became a member of the Japan Art Academy. In 1969 was declared an Officier d'ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government and in 1976 was decorated with the Order of the Rising Sun, Second Class, with Rays. Togo died in 1978 in Kumamoto at the age of 80. Later that year he was posthumously named a Person of Cultural Merit of the fourth court rank by the Japanese government.His works can be seen at the Seiji Togo Memorial SOMPO Japan Museum of art in Tokyo, where more than 200 of his most prominent works are kept.
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2023-02-20