Career
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. (Japanese) Hasegawa Kiyoshi Hanga sakuhin-Shû, Bijutsu Schuppan-Sha, Tokyo, 1981.
(Japanese) Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Hakuchû ni Kami wo miru, Hakusuisha, Tokyo, 1982. (French) A propos de l’oeuvre gravé de Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Fondation Taylor, 25/06 – 18/07/1998, Education
Fondation Taylor, Paris, 1998.
(French) Groult, Martine, Etude de la correspondance française de Kiyoshi Hasegawa, 1998 (Travail de pré-inventaire).