安野光雅

安野光雅（日语：安野 光雅／あんの みつまさ，罗马化：Anno Mitsumasa，1926年3月20日—2020年12月24日），日本画家、书籍装帧设计师、绘本作家、作家、美术教师、文化功劳者，以充满童趣绘本及设色淡雅温润风景画闻名。

生平

岛根县鹿足郡津和野町出身。1946年，安野担任山口县一小学教师，并在山口师范学校研究科学习。1950年来到东京担任美术老师，后为专心于作画而辞去教师工作。1968年，安野出版第一本绘本“不可思议的画”，后又推出错视绘本。1977年起推出“旅之绘本”系列，内容为用画笔和水彩创作的欧洲、美国、中国、日本等地的风景画。1991年至1996年为司马辽太郎刊登在周刊朝日上的连载作品《街道漫步》绘制插画。

2020年12月24日，因肝硬化病逝。

荣誉

他于1984年获得汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生奖；2008年获菊池宽奖；2012年被评为文化功劳者。

Mitsumasa Anno (安野 光雅, Anno Mitsumasa; 20 March 1926 – 24 December 2020) was a Japanese illustrator and writer of children's books, known best for picture books with few or no words. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1984 for his "lasting contribution to children's literature."

Life

Anno was born in 1926 in Tsuwano, a small town in Shimane Prefecture, Japan where he grew up. As a student at a regional high school, he studied art, drawing, and the writings of Hermann Hesse.

During World War II, Anno was drafted into the Japanese army. After the war, Anno earned a degree from the Yamaguchi Teacher Training College (a predecessor of Yamaguchi University) in 1948. He taught mathematics for ten years in an elementary school in Tokyo before beginning a career illustrating children's books.

Anno lived in Japan with his wife, Midori. They had two children, Masaichiro and Seiko. He died on 24 December 2020 from cirrhosis of the liver.

Art

Anno was best known for wordless picture books featuring small, detailed figures. In the "Journey" books, a tiny character travels through a nation's landscape, densely populated with pictures referencing that country's art, literature, culture, and history. Anno's illustrations are often in pen and ink and watercolor, and occasionally incorporate collage and woodcuts. They are intricately detailed, showing a sense of humor as well as an interest in science, mathematics, and foreign cultures. They frequently incorporate subtle jokes and references. Anno's style has been compared to that of M. C. Escher.

A collection of his work is exhibited in Kyoto at "The House in the Forest: Mitsumasa Anno Museum."

Awards

The biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award conferred by the International Board on Books for Young People is the highest recognition available to a writer or illustrator of children's books. Anno received the illustration award in 1984.

Chicago Tribune Honor Award (1970)

The Minister of Education's Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists (1974)

Kate Greenaway Medal, commended runner-up (1974), Anno's Alphabet

Brooklyn Museum of Art Award (1975)

Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, Picture Book (1975), Anno's Alphabet

BG–HB Honor, Picture Book (1977), Anno's Counting Book

Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, Picture Book (1978), Anno's Journey

BIB Golden Apple Award (1979)

Graphic Award, Bologna Children's Book Fair (1980)

Person of Cultural Merit (2012)

Selected works

As illustrator only

Socrates and the Three Little Pigs, by Tsuyoshi Mori (1986)

The Magic Pocket: Selected Poems, poems by Michio Mado (1998)