Saburo Hasegawa

Saburo Hasegawa (長谷川 三郎, Hasegawa Saburō, 1906-1957) was a Japanese calligrapher, painter and early advocate of abstraction. He was born in Chōfu, Tokyo. In 1926, he graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts with a thesis on Sesshū Tōyō.[1] During this time he also studied under Narashige Koide in Osaka. From 1929 to 1932, he traveled to the United States and to Paris, where he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne.

Isamu Noguchi introduced Hasegawa to the paintings of Franz Kline, which Hasegawa published in the monthly journal Bokubi (墨美, Beauty of Ink).[2] Hasegawa wrote extensively on European modernism, and he introduced Japanese artists to surrealism and abstract expressionism.[3] In his paintings, Hasegawa merged the gesturalism of Japanese calligraphy, of which he was a master, with the spontaneity of Western abstraction.[4] In 1955, Hasegawa was a visiting professor at the California College of the Arts, where he lectured on the history of art in the Far East and on Zen. He died in San Francisco in 1957.[5]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Turner, Jane (editor), The Dictionary of Art, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., London, 1996, ISBN 1884446000, Vol 14, p. 213
  2. ↑ Papanikolas, Theresa and Stephen Salel, Stephen, Abstract Expressionism, Looking East from the Far West, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2017, ISBN 9780937426920, p. 14
  3. ↑ Papanikolas, Theresa and Stephen Salel, Stephen, Abstract Expressionism, Looking East from the Far West, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2017, ISBN 9780937426920, p. 17
  4. ↑ Papanikolas, Theresa and Stephen Salel, Stephen, Abstract Expressionism, Looking East from the Far West, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2017, ISBN 9780937426920, p. 17
  5. ↑ Dictionnaire critique & documentaire des peintres sculpteurs dessinateurs & graveurs. Gründ, Hilmarton Manor Press. 1999, p. 788
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