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Monday | 06:15 PM | The Artist Asai Chû and Paris in the early 1900s Namiki Seishi, Ishibashi Foundation Gastprofessor für Kunstgeschichte Japans an der Universität Heidelberg As a representative oil painter of modern Japan, Asai Chû (1856-1907) was appointed professor of Western Painting in 1898 at the newly established Tokyo Art School (today's Tokyo University of Art and Music). Shortly after his appointment, however, he visited Paris in 1900, a travel that triggered a change of course. Just a year later, in 1902, he accepted a professorship at the Kyoto School of Art Crafts (today's Kyoto Institute of Technology), and thus began his activities as an educator of design in Kyoto. This change of professional direction has hitherto been explained as a result of Asai's awareness of the importance of design, which he had witnessed in Paris during the heyday of the Art Nouveau Movement. Asai did in fact show an interest in crafts while in Paris by painting on ceramic wares, among others. At the same time, however, he questioned his oil paintings and their expressions, which he had believed in up to this point. In addition, this is a result of his doubts regarding what he felt was the symbol of the modern era, "realism." Address Institut für Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens Übungsraum R.311 Seminarstraße 4 69117 Heidelberg Organizer Institut für Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens Homepage Organizer Contact Institut für Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens Contact URL |