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3.7.1887 Born in Mito, Ibaragi (JP)
Japanese painter. He abandoned his plan to be a professional soldier after contracting pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 17 and instead studied oil painting and drawing at the Western painting study centres of the Hakubakai (White Horse Society) and the Taiheiyo Gakai (Pacific Painting Society) groups in Tokyo. In 1908 he met the sculptor Morie Ogiwara, who had been impressed by the sculpture of Auguste Rodin during his stay in Paris. Ogiwara greatly influenced Nakamura by his assertion of art as an expression of inner life. He also came to admire Rembrandt and the work of Renoir and the Impressionists, which he knew through reproductions. Nakamura’s career was brief but eclectic, progressing from early self-portaits in the manner of Rembrandt, such as Self-portrait Wearing Hat (1909; Tokyo, Bridgestone A. Mus.), to paintings influenced by Renoir and Vincent van Gogh, and also Paul Cézanne, whose style is reflected in the brushwork of Oshima Landscape (1914–15; Tokyo, priv. col., see Asano and others, pl. 12). In spite of these many sources and his progressive illness, Nakamura’s work retained a distinctive clarity, individuality of vision and sense of well-being. He produced landscapes and still-lifes, but his finest works were portraits such as Girl (1914; Tokyo, priv. col.), for which his girlfriend served as a model, and those of the elderly physicist Dr Tanakadate (1916; Tokyo, N. Mus. Mod. A.) and the blind Russian poet Vasily Yaroshenko (1920; Tokyo, N. Mus. Mod. A.). Both of these show an awareness of the work of Renoir and reveal his profound compassion for humanity.
24.12.1924 Died in Tokyo (JP)
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Public exhibitions 4
Solo shows 1
1984
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| Nakamura Tsune - Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu City |
Group shows 3
2009
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| Four Stories : Paths to Japanese Modern Art - Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba |
2004
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| Remaking Modernism in Japan 1900-2000 - MOT Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo |
2000
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| Visage Painting and the Human Face in 20th Century Art - NMWA The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
Public collections 6
Japan
| | Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa
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| | Koriyama City Museum of Art, Koriyama
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| | Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo
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| | MOMAT The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
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| | Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi
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| | Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu City
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