Shinkichi Tajiri

Shinkichi Tajiri [1]  (Los Angeles, december 7 1923 - Baarlo, 15 March 2009) was a Dutch-American sculptor of Japanese ancestry (a nisei or second generation emigrant from Japan). He also painting, photography and filmmaking.



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[hide] *1 life and work  ==Life and work[ Edit] == ===Early life[ Edit] === Tajiri was born in Watts, a working class area of Los Angeles, the fifth of the seven children of the issei (first generation emigrant) Ryukichi Tajiri and Fuyo Kikuta who in 1906 and 1913 emigrated to the United States were from Japan. In 1936 the family moved to San Diego. His father died when Tajiri was fifteen. In 1940, he received his first lessons in Donal Hord 's sculpting. ===War Years[ Edit] === In 1942, Tajiri with many other Americans of Japanese descent locked up, initially in the stables of Santa Anita Racetrack and then in the concentration camp Poston "3" in Arizona. A year later he enlisted as a volunteer for the army and was sent to Italy to fight. On 9 July 1944 he was wounded during an attack on Castellina, after which he was nursed until december at a hospital in Rome. In 1945 he was stationed successively in Marseille, Nancy, Reims, Heidelberg and Seckenheim. In Mannheim he had his first exhibition. At the end of January 1946 was Tajiri demobilized, after which he joined his mother and sister in Chicago added. He took a job with an antique dealer and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. ===Netherlands<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In protest at the treatment of its population during the war left Tajiri the United States in 1948. He came on 28 september of that year at Le Havre to and settled in theMontparnasse district of Paris where he had been on leave during the war. To november 1949 he studied with Ossip Zadkine, then to september 1950 at Fernand Légerand then a year at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. On 25 may 1951, he married Denise Martin, but the marriage was dissolved in 1954 . He had in the meantime, the Dutch sculptor Jack Jack from Arnhem meet with whom he moved to Amsterdam in 1956 . In 1962 established the family, which by now had two daughters, to in BaarloCastle Scheres . Jack died in 1969. Tajiri in 1976 would marry for the third time.
 * 1.1 early life
 * 1.2 war years
 * 1.3 Netherlands
 * 2 Earnings <sup style="line-height:1;">[3]
 * 3 Photo Gallery
 * 4 work in public collections (selection)
 * 5 bibliography (selection)
 * 6 see also
 * 7 external link

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Tajiri In 1949 came into contact with the Cobra group and exhibited with them in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. His first exhibition since he had established in 1956 in Netherlands, took place on the outdoor place Hofwijck in Voorburg. There he exhibited along with Wessel Couzijn and Carel Visser, under the auspices of the new team '.In 1959 he founded, together with Couzijn Hans Verhulst, Ben Guntenaar and Carel Kneulman, the Group Amsterdam on. Tajiri was invited to participate in documenta II (1959), documenta III of 1964 and the 4. documenta of 1968 in the German city of Kassel. From 1969 to 1989 was Tajiri Professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künstein Berlin.

<p lang="en" len="606" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On 25 June 2005, Tajiri appointed honorary citizen of the municipality of Maasbree and on december 7, 2007, he was knighted in the order of the Netherlands lion, because of his exceptional commitment and the culture historical significance of its activities.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On May 2, 2007 Queen Beatrix in Venlo unveiled four images of Tajiri. The six foot tall images are on either side of the city bridge of Venlo. This bridge, which replaces a bridge blown up during the war, serves as connection of the city centre and the suburb of Blerick, and the images act as "guardians" of the bridge, and the bridge should protect against war and violence.

<p lang="en" len="474" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the courtyard of the Cobra Museum put a Japanese Pebble garden to Tajiri.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Shinkichi Tajiri got on december 7, 2008 the Dutch citizenship and died in 2009 aged 85.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2] ==Merits <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]  <span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Photo Gallery<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * 442d Regimental Combat Team/100th 1943/1946
 * Honorary citizenship Los Angeles, USA 1981
 * Officer of the order of Orange-Nassau 1992
 * Honorary citizenship Bruyères and Vosges 1994
 * Member of the "Académie Royale de Belgique 2002
 * Honorary citizenship of the Church Maasbree, June 25, 2005
 * Knight of the order of the Netherlands lion, 7 december 2007 (... because of its exceptional commitment and the culture historical significance of its activities.)
 * <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Number 1 (Sonsbeek, 1966)
 * <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">The Knot (1976), Coolsingel in Rotterdam


 * <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Square Knot (1986), the Hague


 * <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Royal Knot (1991), Palace Garden Noordeinde in the Hague


 * <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Knot (detail), Hoog Catharijne in Utrecht


 * <p lang="en" len="27" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Brugwachter in Venlo

==Work in public collections (selection)<span class="mw-editsection" len="361" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Bibliography (selection)<span class="mw-editsection" len="346" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * <p lang="en" len="37" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Meeting place in Amsterdam
 * Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht
 * Rijksmuseum Amsterdam<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]
 * Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
 * (Leonard Freed/Shinkichi Tajiri): Seltsame Spiele; Zähmt Mädchen und Bildhauer der Metalle who Tajiri. Ein Fotobuch von Leonard Freed, Hans a. Nikel |Bärmeier & Nikel], Frankfurt am Main (1970)
 * Mirrors with memories: 101 accessing daguerreotypes of Tajiri, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (1976)
 * Shinkichi Tajiri: Autobiographical Notations – Autobiographical notes: Words and Images – words and pictures, Kempen Publishers Eindhoven (1993) ISBN 90-74271-34-0
 * Shinkichi Tajiri: Berliner Mauer |The Berlin Wall, Tasba B.V., Baarlo (2005) ISBN 978-9080962910