Toru Iwamura

Japanese: 岩村透 - いわむら・とおる

Year of death: August 17, 1917
Year of birth: January 25, 1870 (February 25, 1870)
Art critic and art historian of the Meiji and Taisho periods. His pen names were Imoarai and Kandō. He was the eldest son of Iwamura Takatoshi. Born in Tokyo. In 1888, he dropped out of Tokyo Eiwa School and went to America, and in 1891 he moved to Paris where he studied painting at the Academie Julian and also studied Western art history. In Paris, he met Kuroda Seiki. He returned to Japan the following year and became a council member of the Meiji Art Association, but left in 1904 and formed the Hakuba-kai with Kuroda and others. He lectured on Western art history at Tokyo School of Fine Arts (Tokyo University of the Arts) from 1901, becoming a professor the following year. He served as a judge for the Bunten exhibition and was instrumental in the founding of the Kokumin Bijutsu Kyokai (National Art Association). During this time, he was active in writing art criticism and introductions to Western art history in magazines such as Bijutsu Hyoron and Bijutsu Shinpo. <Works> Geien Zassho

(Hideo Miwa)

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没年：大正6.8.17(1917)
生年：明治3.1.25(1870.2.25)
明治大正期の美術評論家,美術史家。号に芋洗,観堂。岩村高俊の長男。東京生まれ。明治21(1888)年東京英和学校を中退し渡米,24年パリに転じアカデミー・ジュリアンで画技を修め,西洋美術史研究も行う。パリで黒田清輝を知る。翌年帰国し,明治美術会評議員となるが,29年退会し黒田らと白馬会を結成。34年から東京美術学校(東京芸大)で西洋美術史を講じ翌年教授となる。文展審査員を務めたほか,国民美術協会の創立に尽力。この間,雑誌『美術評論』『美術新報』などに美術批評や西洋美術史紹介など文筆活動を展開した。<著作>『芸苑雑稿』

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