Katsushika Hokusai
1760–1849 · printmaker · Japan
Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Hokusai was instrumental in developing ukiyo-e from a style of portraiture largely focused on courtesans and actors into a much broader style of art that focused on landscapes, plants, and animals. His works had a significant influence on Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet during the wave of Japonisme that spread across Europe in the late 19th century.
Read more on WikipediaThe world around them · Edo, 1830s
- Who governs
- The Tokugawa shoguns still rule a country closed to most foreigners.
- Everyday life
- Edo is one of the largest cities in the world, and the Tenpō famine strikes in the 1830s.
- Arts and ideas
- Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji and Hiroshige's Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō.
- Meanwhile
- In Britain the first passenger railways run, and France has a new king after the revolution of 1830.
Their life in their time
- 1760
- 183171 years oldThe Great Wave off Kanagawaartist
- 184989 years oldDies
Connected to
- CM
Claude Monet · collector and printmaker
1883 Monet's collection of Japanese prints at Giverny holds 23 by Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa among them.
Source: wikipedia:Fondation_Claude_Monet
