Kiyoshi Hasegawa
December 9, 1891 – December 13, 1980 was a Japanese artist and engraver who spent most of his life in France and whose work is featured at the Yokohama Museum of Art.
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Kiyoshi Hasegawa
- Born
- 1891 · Yokohama.
- Died
- 1980 · 14th arrondissement of Paris.
- Nationality
- Japan · Empire of Japan
- Occupation
- printmaker · painter
- Education
- Azabu Junior and Senior High School
- Teachers
- Bernard Leach · Okada Saburosuke · Fujishima Takeji
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour · Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres · Order of the Sacred Treasure and 3rd class
- Languages
- Japanese
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December 9, 1891 – December 13, 1980 was a Japanese artist and engraver who spent most of his life in France and whose work is featured at the Yokohama Museum of Art.
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Biography
Kiyoshi Hasegawa studied at Azabu Junior and Senior High School. Training under Bernard Leach, Okada Saburosuke and Fujishima Takeji is recorded. The recorded working language is Japanese. Work by Kiyoshi Hasegawa is recorded in the collections of Finnish National Gallery, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Print Collection. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Order of the Sacred Treasure, 3rd class.
Born in present-day Yokohama, he moved to France in 1919 (via the United States) to learn copperplate printing, and never returned to Japan. According to one source his work shows the influence of Chagall, Dufy, Laboureur, Pascin, Picasso and Edouard Goerg Alas. He revived the so-called Mezzotint technique and found the power and the depth of black in wood engraving. Works such as Hasegawa's come from the heart. His art is subtle and delicate. It is an ideal created in the silence of the workshop with memories of the recent past, transposed by the sharpness and delicacy of Oriental sensibilities.
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Kiyoshi Hasegawa is recorded as having received Knight of the Legion of Honour, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Order of the Sacred Treasure, 3rd class. Formation and teaching. Hasegawa studied at Azabu Junior and Senior High School. He trained under Bernard Leach, Okada Saburosuke and Fujishima Takeji.
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Life and career
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1891
Kiyoshi Hasegawa born at Yokohama.
1980
Kiyoshi Hasegawa died at 14th arrondissement of Paris.
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Yokohama.
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14th arrondissement of Paris.
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Kiyoshi Hasegawa received Knight of the Legion of Honour, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Order of the Sacred Treasure, 3rd class.
Distinctions and awards
• Gold Medal at the International Exposition, Paris, 1937 • Légion d’honneur, 1935 • Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres • Membre Correspondent of the French Academy of Fine Arts, 1964 • Order of the Sacred Treasure, Third Class, Japan, 1967
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