Hiroyuki Tajima

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Name

Hiroyuki Tajima

Culture

Japanese

Gender

Male

Birth date

1911

Birth place

Tokyo, Japan View on map Close map

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Death date

1984

Occupations

Printmaker

Summary

Worked: Japan. Woodblock prints.

Context

Australia

Biography

> Graduated Nihon University 1932.

> Graduated Tokyo School of Fine Arts 1943.

> leading 20th century Master printmaker of Postwar Era.

> Sosaku Hanga (creative print) Movement artist and abstract & surrealist

> joined Bijutsu Bunka Kyokai (group of abstract & surrealist artists)

> studied printmaking under Nagase Yoshio 1891 - 1978 (sosaku hanga printmaker)

[information courtesy of Leslie Darnell 14 October 2010]