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was a Japanese artist. == Biography == He was born in Yokohama, to parents Kosuke and Higashiyama Kaii. He was given the first name Shinkichi, but later changed this to Kaii. From 3 to 18 years old he lived in Kobe. In 1926 he graduated from Hyogo Prefectural High School and entered the ''Nihonga'' department of Tokyo School of Fine Arts (currently Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music), and graduated with commendation in 1931. In 1940 he married Sumi Kawasaki. In July 1945, he was drafted into the army and received anti-tank training and was demobilized later that year. He spent a lot of time travelling, mostly in Japan and China, but also made several trips to Europe. In 1933, he studied German at the Berlin University and in 1962 he travelled around the Nordic countries. In 1947, he received the special prize at ''Nitten'', the largest competition art exhibition in Japan. This led him to pursue seeking his own style, later found as a landscape is his major motif. In 1950, he exhibited a painting "the road," in which his simplicity was well recognized. He traveled Scandinavian countries, Germany, Austria, and China, and drew many works themed the sceneries of these countries. In 1985, January 12, Higashiyama together with Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys participated in the "Global-Art-Fusion" project. This was a Fax art project, initiated by the conceptual artist Ueli Fuchser, in which a fax was sent with drawings of all three artist within 32 minutes around the world - from Düsseldorf (Germany) via New York (USA) to Tokyo (Japan), received at Vienna's Palais-Liechtenstein Museum of Modern Art. It was meant as a statement for peace during the Cold War in the 1980s in the 1980s.〔Andre Chahil: (''Wien 1985: Phänomen Fax-Art. Beuys, Warhol und Higashiyama setzen dem Kalten Krieg ein Zeichen.'' ) (german)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kaii Higashiyama」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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