Ryumon Yasuda


Ryumon Yasuda was a Japanese painter and sculptor.

Biography

Yasuda was born as Juemon Yasuda in Ryumon Village, Naga District Wakayama Prefecture, Japan in 1891.
He saw Hishida Shunsō's "The Fallen Leaves" in a Ministry of Education art exhibition held in Ueno in Tokyo. He undertook studies in painting at the Pacific Ocean Picture Aassociation Laboratory and entered Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō, Department of Western Pictures in 1912 upon graduation from Kokawa Junior High School. The school of fine arts is exhibited in the Nikaten while attending school and selecting specially is won by "Mother And the Child" on the 11th Bunten selected in 1917. Afterwards, the study of the sculpture was started in the laboratory at Nihon Bijutsuin Exhibition thereafter was made an outlet.
Yasuda visited the United States of America in 1920, and then travelled to Paris via San Francisco and New York City the next year. He was taught sculpture under the guidance of Bourdelle, who was Rodin's assistant. He visited various places of interest in Europe including the atelier of Aristide Maillol in southern France during his time abroad.
After learning of his mother's death, Yasuda returned to Japan in 1923. After he returned home, he stopped production in Tokyo and built the studio of Isaku Nishimura design in Wakayama of his hometown, moving the base of operations to Sakai, Osaka. Yasuda exhibited profound influence on the world of art of Kansai, teaching the next generation after World War II at the Institute of Osaka City Art, Wakayama University. He died in 1965 at the age of 73.

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