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| BIOGRAPHY OF ANDO HIROSHIGE (I) |
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Ando Hiroshige, known also as Hiroshige I, was a Japanese landscape painter and color-print artist. His first success was won with a series of landscapes (1825). He painted flowers, fish, and birds, but his important prints are landscapes, frequently snow scenes or rain, mist and moonlight subjects. He showed a knowlegde of perspective. It was from him that Whistler drew inspiration for his moonlight interpretations. Hiroshige is represented in the print collections of various large museums in Tokyo, London, New York, and Boston, and also in many important private collections. Hiroshige II and Hiroshige III were pupils who used the name of their master after his death.
Bibliography:
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 2nd edition, c. 1950
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