Yamamoto Hōsui
Yamamoto Hōsui | |
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| Born | August 12, 1850 |
| Died | November 15, 1906 (aged 56) |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Education | Antonio Fontanesi |
| Known for | Painting |
Hosui Yamamoto (山本 芳翠, Yamamoto Hōsui, August 12, 1850 – November 15, 1906) was a Japanese artist. He is also sometimes known as Yamamoto Tamenosuke.
Biography
He was born in Mino Province. He first trained in the Nanga (Bunjinga) style before studying Western painting with Charles Wirgman and Goseda Horyu (1827–92) and under Antonio Fontanesi. Yamamoto then went to Paris, where he remained for over ten years and studied at the school of Fine Arts as Gérôme’s student 1878-1887. While in Paris he mixed with the city's artists and intelligentsia,[1] and he supplied work for the illustrated edition of Robert de Montesquiou's Les chauves-souris.
Returning to Japan he opened a painting academy, the Seikokan, in
Among his works are Junishi (1892), a cycle of twelve oil paintings in the Western style based on the theme of the signs of the Chinese zodiac (ten of which are extant).[3][4]
Gallery
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portrait of Judith Gautier -
Painting of female nude -
Urashima-zu -
Young girl having a candle
References
External links
Media related to Yamamoto Hōsui at Wikimedia Commons
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