Full Name Juemon Yasuda Nationality Japanese | Name Ryumon Yasuda Known for Sculpture, Drawing | |
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Born May 13, 1891 ( 1891-05-13 ) Ryumon Village, Naga District, Wakayama, Japan Notable work Minakata Kumagusu Zou, 1965
Haha to Ko, 1917
Ishida-shi no Zou
Kiyo Bank
Nagoya-shi Heiwa-do Ritsuzou Died February 14, 1965, Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan | ||
Ryumon Yasuda (保田 龍門, Yasuda Ryūmon, May 13, 1891 – February 14, 1965) was a Japanese painter and sculptor.
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Biography
Yasuda was born as Juemon Yasuda in Ryumon Village, Naga District (now Kinokawa City) Wakayama Prefecture, Japan in 1891.
He saw Hishida Shunsō's "The Fallen Leaves" in a Ministry of Education art exhibition (abbreviation: Bunten) held in Ueno in Tokyo. He decided that it aims at the field of the art given up again once, receives the guidance of the painting in the "Pacific Ocean picture association laboratory", and he entered Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō (present-day Tokyo University of the Arts), Department of Western Picture in 1912 after he graduated from Kokawa junior high school. The school of fine arts is exhibited in the Nikaten while attending school and selecting specially is won by "Mother And the Child" on the 11th Bunten selected in 1917. Afterwards, the study of the sculpture was started in the laboratory at Nihon Bijutsuin Exhibition thereafter was made an outlet.
Yasuda visited the United States of America in 1920, and then travelled to Paris via San Francisco and New York City the next year. He was taught sculpture under the guidance of Bourdelle, who was Rodin's assistant. He visited various places of interest in Europe including the atelier of Aristide Maillol in southern France during his time abroad.
After learning of his mother's death, Yasuda returned to Japan in 1923. After he returned home, he stopped production in Tokyo and he built the studio of the Isaku Nishimura design in Wakayama of the home town and move the base of the activity and move to Sakai, Osaka afterwards. He had a big influence on the world of art of Kansai on teaching the next generation after World War II at the Institute of Osaka City Art, Wakayama University. Yasuda died in 1965 at the age of 73.