前田政雄MAEDA Masao
1904 – 1974-01-01
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- Names
前田政雄
MAEDA Masao (index name)
Maeda Masao (display name)
前田政雄 (Japanese display name)
まえだ まさお (transliterated hiragana)
- Date of birth
- 1904
- Birth place
- Hokkaidō
- Date of death
- 1974-01-01
- 2014
- Tokyo Bunkazai Kenkyūjo (Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties). “Maeda Masao.” Nihon Bijutsu Nenkan Shosai Bukkosha Kiji. Published 2014-04-14. https://www.tobunken.go.jp/materials/bukko/9313.html
日本美術年鑑 / Year Book of Japanese Art
「前田政雄」『日本美術年鑑』昭和49・50年版(284頁)日本版画協会、国画会版画部の会員であった木版画家前田政雄は、明治37年12月4日、北海道函館市に生れた。大正13年川端画学校洋画科を修了し、油絵を梅原龍三郎に、版技術を平塚運一に学んだ。日本版画協会、国画会版画部に作品を発表、昭和5年国際美術協会展で「支笏湖」が受賞、又国画会展では昭和14年「房總海辺」で褒状、翌15年には「黒猫」「大海」で奨学金を受賞している。その他、聖徳太子奉賛展、大調和展、日...
Wikipedia
Masao Maeda (前田 政雄, Maeda Masao, December, 1904 - March 27, 1974) was a woodblock print artist, born in Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō, Japan. In 1923 Maeda met Hiratsuka Un'ichi, a leader of the sosaku-hanga \"creative prints\" movement. In 1925 he relocated to Tokyo and joined the Kawabata Painting School. He studied Western-style painting (Yōga) with Umehara Ryuzauro and started work in oils. He learned woodblock techniques via his association with the Yoyogi Group of print artists who met at Hiratsuka's house in the 1930s, and by 1940 Maeda was solely working as a printmaker. Maeda joined the Ichimoku-kai1 (First Thursday Society), a sosaku-hanga group led by Onchi Koshiro. He contributed to One Hundred New Views of Japan in 1940, \"the two Kitsutsuki Hanga-shu collections (1942-3) and nos 3-6 of the Ichimokushu collections (1947-50), as well as Tokyo Kaiko Zue (Scenes of Lost Tokyo) (1945) and Nihon Minzoku Zufu (1946).\" Maeda was mentioned and quoted in Oliver Statler's 1956 book Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: An Art Reborn.\"I think that woodprints suit the character of a Japanese. The materials are close to our life: wood, paper, even the baren with its bamboo cover. I think of trying etchings and lithographs but I never get around to them, and though I like Onchi's ideas of utilizing all sorts of odd materials, I just can't get away from wood.\"Lawrence Smith's Modern Japanese Prints 1912-1989 describes him as \"A typical sosaku hanga group artist in many ways, Maeda nevertheless showed untypically the influence of Nihonga native-style painting. He also produced fine mountain scenes a little in the vein of Umetaro Azechi.\"
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2023-02-20