Reiji Hiramatsu (平松礼二 Hiramatsu Reiji, b. 1941 in Tokyo) is a Japanese '' Nihonga'' painter.

Biography

His father was a civil servant who moved the family to

Nagoya is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most pop ...

in 1946, where Reiji Hiramatsu would grow up. Early on he developed interest in the traditional painting techniques of ''Nihonga'', however on behest of his parents he first studied law and economics at the

Aichi University is a private university in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Its campuses are located in Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Toyohashi and Higashi-ku, Nagoya. History The university's predecessor was founded by Konoe Atsumaro as an overseas Japanese institution of hi ...

. He began his artistic career after graduating and developed into one of the foremost representatives of ''Nihonga''. In 1967 he married his wife Hiroko, who would encourage him in his pursuit of painting. In 1994 he visited the

Musée de l'Orangerie The Musée de l'Orangerie ( en, Orangery Museum) is an art gallery of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings located in the west corner of the Tuileries Garden next to the Place de la Concorde in Paris. The museum is most famous as the pe ...

and Giverny in France. He was inspired by

Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During ...

and produced a number of paintings and '' byōbu'' screens that re-interpret Monet's '' Water Lilies'', which in turn originally were inspired by

Japonisme ''Japonisme'' is a French term that refers to the popularity and influence of Japanese art and design among a number of Western European artists in the nineteenth century following the forced reopening of foreign trade with Japan in 1858. Japon ...

. Reiji's Water Lilies were exhibited in 2013 at the Museum of Impressionism in Giverny, as well as the

Museum of Asian Art The Museum of Asian Art (german: Museum für Asiatische Kunst) is a part of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin since 2020. Before its relocation it was sited in the neighborhood of the borough of , Berlin, Germany. It is one of the Berlin State Museums ...

in Berlin. In 2013 he also donated 34 pieces, including “Japanese Apricot Banquet” and “Mt. Daikan in Golden Yellow in Autumn” to the Yugawara Art Museum.

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Homepage of Reiji Hiramatsu

Artnet , Reiji Hiramatsu

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