biografia di Hiroshi YOSHIDA (1876-1950)
Personal data
Birth : 09/19/1876 - Kurume, Japan
Death : 04/05/1950 - Tokyo, Japan
Sex : M
Nationality/Affiliation : Japan
Address
Family relations
Father of Toshi YOSHIDA [ 1911-1995 ]Father of Hodaka YOSHIDA [ 1926-1995 ]
Education
Pupil of / student of Koyama SHOTARO [ 1857-1916 ]
Professional data
Work and Life
1936:Travels to China and Korea
1929 – 1930:Travels to India
1925:Has his own printmaking workshop
1923 – 1925:Third travel to USA, Europe and Africa
1921 – 1923:Works in Watanabe Shozaburo’s print store until it was destroyed, Tokyo, Japan
1904:Second travel to the USA, returns to Japan via Egypt
1899 – 1900:First travel to Europe and USA
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
Affiliated to an association
Nihon Sangakuga Kyokai – Japan Alpine Artist Association – Japan
1902 : Taiheiyo Gakai – Pacific Art Association – Tokyo, Japan
Work
Categorie and medium
Painting :
Print-Multiple : Woodcut
Subject
architecturewomen
war
landscape
Artistic periods
1920 : Turns to wood-block printsStarts as a painter in oil and watercolour
Does western-style paintings in the 1890s with western techniques
Movements and styles
Shin HangaJapanese Prints
Works
Southern Japan Alps Collection | |
Date of creation : 1928 Medium : Engraving | |
Twelve Scenes in the Japan Alps | |
Date of creation : 1926 Medium : Engraving | |
Grand Canyon | |
Date of creation : 1925 Medium : Woodcut | |
Rapids | |
Date of creation : 1910 Medium : Oil Size : 119 x 149 cm | |
Memories of Japan | |
Date of creation : 1899 Medium : Watercolour | |
Sumidagawa (Sumida River, Afternoon) | |
Medium : Engraving Size : 10 x 15 cm | |
Hiratsuka Castle | |
Medium : Engraving | |
Kono Matsuri (Kono Festival) | |
Medium : Engraving Size : 15 x 10 cm | |
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
Group exhibitions
2000
An Art Reborn: Modern Japanese Prints from the AMAM Collection
Allen Memorial Art Museum – Oberlin OH, United States
02/18/2000 – 06/18/2000
1999
Modern woodblock prints
Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum – Nagano, Japan
1999
1936
Modern Japanese Prints
The Toledo Museum of Art – Toledo OH, United States
1936
1930
Modern Japanese Prints
The Toledo Museum of Art – Toledo OH, United States
1930
1904
St. Louis World Fair – Exposition Universelle
Saint Louis MO, United States
1904
Bibliography (Selected)
On the artist
Books
1994
Modern Japanese Prints 1912-1989
Publisher: British Museum Press – 46 Bloomsbury Street – London, United Kingdom
Author: Smith Lawrence
1994
1986
Kawase Hasui and His Contemporaries: The Shin Hanga (New Print) Movement in Landscape Art
Publisher: Everson Museum of Art – 401 Harrison Street – Syracuse NY, United States
Author: Pachter Irwin
1986
Catalogues raisonnés
1987
The complete Woodblock Prints of Yoshida Hiroshi
Publisher: ABE Corporation – 4-30-12 Kamimeguro – Tokyo, Japan
1987
ISBN : 4-87242-121-3