Rikizo Takata

October 18, 1900 (age 92)

Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan

Rikizo Takata lived and worked in France for several years, where he replicated many masterpieces of art history at the Louvre museum. He painted landscapes in a style close to that of the Paris School, and succeeded in translating the essence of nature and Japanese cities and designs, and Japanese Western-style painting to the European one. He joined the Watercolor Society in 1926 and won his first award at the 14th annual Nika Exhibition and later became a member of the board for the spring exhibition. In the final stage of World War II, Takata's atelier in Tokyo burned down and he was evacuated to his hometown of Kurume. After the war, Takata continued to exhibit and paint replicas and also travelled frequently. Takata illustrated, for instance, the novel Kyoto (Old Capital) by Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata with a series of very beautiful scenes from the Japanese country, especially from the island of Kyushu, and temples, gardens and palaces in the city of Kyoto. Takata died in the Teikyo University Hospital in Tokyo from heart failure secondary to peritonitis.

Rikizo Takata

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力三高田

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Takata Rikizo was born in Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture, 1900.

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Studied art at the Kawabata Painting School, and while still a student displayed many of his paintings at Nika Society Art Exhibition.

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Rikizo Takata lived and worked in France for several years, where he replicated many masterpieces of art history at the Louvre museum. He painted landscapes in a style close to that of the Paris School, and succeeded in translating the essence of nature and Japanese cities and designs, and Japanese Western-style painting to the European one.

He joined the Watercolor Society in 1926 and won his first award at the 14th annual Nika Exhibition and later became a member of the board for the spring exhibition.

In the final stage of World War II, Takata's atelier in Tokyo burned down and he was evacuated to his hometown of Kurume. After the war, Takata continued to exhibit and paint replicas and also travelled frequently. Takata illustrated, for instance, the novel Kyoto (Old Capital) by Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata with a series of very beautiful scenes from the Japanese country, especially from the island of Kyushu, and temples, gardens and palaces in the city of Kyoto.

Takata died in the Teikyo University Hospital in Tokyo from heart failure secondary to peritonitis.

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