Yasui Sotaro

Japanese: 安井曾太郎 - やすいそうたろう

Born: May 17, 1888 in Shimogyo, Kyoto.
[Died] December 14, 1955. Western-style painter from Yugawara, Kanagawa Prefecture. Born as the fifth son of Yasui Genshichi, a cotton wholesaler in Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto (later reorganized as Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto City). In 1903, he dropped out of commerce school and studied under Asai Chu along with Umehara Ryuzaburo at the Shogoin Western Painting Institute (later the Kansai Art Academy). In 1907, he studied in France, where he studied the art of Paul Cézanne and other post-impressionists under Jean-Paul Laurens, and returned to Japan in 1914. The following year, in 1915, he joined the Nikakai, and attracted attention when he exhibited 44 works he had created in Europe at the second Nika Exhibition. In 1935, he was recommended as a member of the Teikoku Fine Arts Academy (→ Japan Art Academy), and left the Nikakai, and in 1936, he founded the Issui-kai. He later became a member of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts (now known as the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts), a professor at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, and an Imperial Household Artist, and was awarded the Order of Culture in 1952. Based on realism, he developed his own unique realistic style based on modern plastic thinking, using clear colors and condensed forms. His major works include Roses (1932, Artizon Museum), Golden Rongs (1934, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo), Lama Temple in Chengde (1937, Eisei Bunko), Portrait of Fukai Eigo (1937, Tokyo National Museum), and Portrait of Abe Yoshinari (1944, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo).

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[生]1888.5.17. 京都，下京
[没]1955.12.14. 神奈川，湯河原
洋画家。京都の下京区（のちに京都市中京区に再編）の木綿問屋安井元七の五男として生まれる。1903年商業学校を中退し，聖護院洋画研究所（のちの関西美術院）で梅原龍三郎とともに浅井忠の指導を受けた。1907年フランスに留学，ジャン＝ポール・ローランスに師事しながらポール・セザンヌらの後期印象派の美術を学び，1914年帰国。翌 1915年二科会に所属，第2回二科展に滞欧作品 44点を特別出品して注目された。1935年帝国美術院（→日本芸術院）の会員に推されて二科会を去り，翌 1936年一水会を創立。その後，帝国美術院改め帝国芸術院会員，東京美術学校教授，帝室技芸員となり，1952年文化勲章を受章。写実を根底にしながら明快な色彩と要約したフォルムとを構成して，近代的な造形思考に基づく独自の写実様式を展開した。主要作品に『薔薇』（1932，アーティゾン美術館），『金蓉』（1934，東京国立近代美術館），『承徳の喇嘛廟（らまびょう）』（1937，永青文庫），『深井英五氏像』（1937，東京国立博物館），『安倍能成像』（1944，東京国立近代美術館）などがある。

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