Katsushika Hokusai

Japanese · 1760–1849

JaponismeKasei cultureukiyo-e

His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa.

Independent artist guide by Momentable. Biography from Wikipedia; artworks credited to the museums that hold them.

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Risshi by the Sea Watching Birds — The living window: art moves here the way it moves in your living room.

works in the Momentable archive: 4works in the Momentable archive
museums hold them: 2museums hold them
life: 1760–1849life
movement: Japonismemovement

The work

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Risshi by the Sea Watching Birds

Katsushika Hokusai · The Cleveland Museum of Art

Beauty (Bijin)

Katsushika Hokusai · The Cleveland Museum of Art

Who Katsushika Hokusai was

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.

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