Japanese Western-style Painting of the Meiji Era and German Painting in the End of the 19^<th> Century-With Special Reference to HARADA Naojiro and AOKI Shigeru-

1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

• Project/Area Number: 09610058
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Fine art history
• Research Institution: Tottori University
• Principal Investigator: KOSAKA Kazuharu Faculty of Education and Regional Sciences, Tottori University, Professor, 教育地域科学部, 教授 (50153466)
• Project Period (FY): 1997 – 1999
• Keywords: Western-style painting of the Meiji era / Modern Japanese art / Modern Japanese painting / Romanticism of the Meiji era / Japanese painter visiting to Europe of the Meiji era / AOKI Shigeru / HARADA Naojiro / Modern Japanese art and German art

Research Abstract

Results of this research are as follows.
1.HARADA's case : Researchers have pointed out that HARADA's Kannon on a dragon is reminiscent of the works of A.Boeklin and in the case of HARADA's Shoemaker produced in Munich, the name of Leibl has been mentioned. Detailed comparison between Shoemaker and the work of Leibl, however, has never been carried out yet. In the present study we have shed the light on the Shoemaker's characteristics by comparing their works.
2.AOKI's case : John Christian and some Japanese historians of art have mentioned parallels between AOKI's A Good Catch and the work of Hans van Marees without giving concrete examples. In this research we have recognized similarity, though there still remain many differences, between AOKI's A Good Catch and a series of Marees' frescoes for the hall of the German Marine-Zoological Station in Naples, with paying a special attentiton to Fishermen in a Boat and Fishermen Pushing a Boat into the Sea. The next problem to be solved is to study the possibility that AOKI might have come across Marees' frescoes somewhere, for instans, in some books.