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Fokko Tadama
Fokko Tadama (16 May 1871 – 25 May 1937) was a Dutch painter in the style of the Hague School, known primarily for coastal scenes, who spent much of his career in the United States. He was also a teacher and focused primarily on Japanese immigrant students. Biography He was born in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. His father, Reinier Tadama (1844–1879), was a colonial administrator in Aceh and his mother was his father's mistress; a local woman. He was orphaned when his father died of tuberculosis while at a health spa in Germany. Having been taken to the Netherlands, he remained there and received his first artistic training from the landscape painter Sieger Jan Baukema (1852–1936). Later, he attended the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. In 1895 he married Thamine Tadama-Groeneveld, who was also a painter. In 1897 they settled in Egmond aan den Hoef and became part of the , led by George Hitchcock. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shimizu Toshi
was a Japanese painter in the yōga style. Life and work He originally planned to have a career in the military, but failed the qualifying exam at the Imperial Japanese Army Academy. After considering other options, he decided to become a painter and, in 1907, went to the United States in pursuit of that goal. It took him five years of working odd jobs in Seattle before he met the Dutch painter, Fokko Tadama, who took him on as a student and was able to gain him admission to a local art school. After graduating, he briefly returned to Japan to marry his childhood sweetheart. In 1917, they moved to New York, where he joined the Art Students League of New York, Art Students League. While there, he made contact with his fellow Japanese emigrant painters, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Kuniyoshi Yasuo and Eitaro Ishigaki, Ishigaki Eitarō, who had also studied in Seattle. His primary instructor was John French Sloan, who had a profound influence on his style. His best known early paintings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
