Fumiko Hori

Fumiko Hori (堀 文子, Hori Fumiko, July 2, 1918[1] – February 5, 2019) was a Japanese artist, known for her paintings in the Nihonga style.

Fumiko Hori
Born(1918-07-02)July 2, 1918
Tokyo, Japan
DiedFebruary 5, 2019(2019-02-05) (aged 100)
Hiratsuka, Japan
StyleNihonga

Biography

Hori was born to a scholarly family in Hirakawacho, in Tokyo, Japan, in 1918.[2][3] In 1940, she graduated from Women's School of Fine Arts (now Joshibi University of Art and Design).[4][5][6] She trained in Nihonga, a traditional Japanese painting style.[2] In 1952, she won the Uemura Shōen Award, given to outstanding Japanese female painters.[7]

In 1960, Hori's husband, a diplomat, died of tuberculosis.[8] Hori decided to travel the world, leaving Japan for the first time and visiting Egypt, Europe, the United States and Mexico.[2] Upon her return to Japan, she moved to the Kanagawa countryside[8] and created works inspired by her travels.[2] The natural world, including flowers and animals, was a theme of her work throughout her career.[3][9]

From the 1950s to the 1970s, Hori created illustrations for magazines and children's books,[2][3] including a 1971 picture book adaption of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker that won an award at the Bologna Children's Book Fair.[3][10] She also taught painting at Tama Art University.[9] In 1987, she won the Kanagawa Culture Prize.[9]

Hori lived in Arezzo, in Tuscany, Italy, for five years from 1987, setting up a studio there and painting colourful images of the local setting.[8][3] She continued to travel to countries around the world, including such destinations as the Amazon, Nepal, and Mexico.[8]

In 2000, she survived life-threatening aneurysm; she was inspired by this experience to paint microorganisms, as viewed under a microscope.[2][8] This work appeared in a solo exhibition at Nakajima Art Gallery in Ginza, Tokyo.[8] A ceramic piece based on one of her paintings, Utopia, was installed in the lobby of Fukushima Airport in 2014.[11]

Hori continued to paint into her final years.[2][7] The Museum of Modern Art in Hayama showed a retrospective of her work from November 2017 to March 2018;[12] the earliest piece was a self-portrait from 1930, and the most recent piece was Red-Flowering Japanese Apricot, painted in 2016 when Hori was 98 years old.[2]

Hori died on February 5, 2019, at a hospital in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, at age 100.[10] The Narukawa Art Museum in Hakone, home of over 100 of her works, hosted a memorial exhibition from July to November 2019.[13]

See also

References
  1. "日本画家・堀文子さんの創作の軌跡を辿る｜京都と東京で「生誕１００年 堀文子追悼展─旅人の記憶─」開催". サライ.jp｜小学館の雑誌『サライ』公式サイト (in Japanese). April 10, 2019. Retrieved January 7, 2020. 堀文子（ほり・ふみこ）大正７年７月２日、東京生まれ。(Fumiko Hori was born in Tokyo on July 2, Taisho 7 [1918]).
  2. Gleason, Alan. "Starting from Zero: The Liberated Nihonga of Fumiko Hori". artscape Japan. Retrieved December 9, 2019.
  3. "堀 文子【一所不在・旅】展". Hiyogo Prefectural Museum of Art. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
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  5. "Hori Fumiko". Gallery Sakura. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
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  7. "日本画家の堀文子さん死去…１００歳 : エンタメ・文化 : ニュース". 読売新聞オンライン (in Japanese). February 7, 2019. Archived from the original on December 10, 2019. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  8. 高橋昇 (March 5, 2019). "【インタビュー】追悼・堀文子さん（日本画家）「旅はひとり。事前に調べもしない、"行ってから驚く"体験主義者です」". サライ.jp｜小学館の雑誌『サライ』公式サイト (in Japanese). Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  9. "孤高の日本画家・堀文子さん100歳逝く | 大磯・二宮・中井". タウンニュース (in Japanese). February 15, 2019. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
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  11. "Public Art | Fukushima Airport "Utopia"(Fumiko Hori)". Japan Traffic Culture Association. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  12. "HORI Fumiko". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  13. "【特別追悼展】堀 文子展 ～感謝と哀悼の意を込めて～". www.artagenda.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved December 10, 2019.
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