Isamu NoguchiVereinigte Staaten, 1904–1988The Queen
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Derweil im Leben von Isamu Noguchi
Das ganze Leben1929
First one-man show
His abstract sculptures made in Paris are shown in his first one-man show at the Eugene Schoen Gallery. After none of his works sells, Noguchi abandons abstract art altogether for portrait busts in order to support himself, and soon accepts commissions from wealthy and celebrity clients.
February 1929
Returns to New York and meets Buckminster Fuller
He leaves for New York City. On Brâncuși’s recommendation he visits Romany Marie’s café in Greenwich Village and meets Buckminster Fuller, with whom he collaborates on several projects, including the modeling of Fuller’s Dymaxion car.
1930
To Beijing, to Qi Baishi
He leaves for Paris in April 1930 and two months later receives his visa to ride the Trans-Siberian Railway; he opts to visit Japan first rather than India, but after learning that his father Yone does not want him to visit using his surname, a shaken Noguchi departs for Beijing instead. In China he studies brush painting with Qi Baishi, staying for six months before sailing for Japan.
February 1932
Exhibition of his Asian work
Back in New York amid the Great Depression, he shows his newly produced sculptures and brush paintings from Asia: the exhibition begins in February 1932 and tours Chicago, the west coast and Honolulu. Very few works sell, but Noguchi regarded it as his “most successful”; his next attempt to break into abstract art, a large streamlined figure of the dancer Ruth Page entitled Miss Expanding Universe, is poorly received.
June – December 1933
London and the death of his mother
He moves to London in June hoping to find more work, but returns in December, just before his mother Léonie’s death.
May 1942
Voluntarily enters the Poston internment camp
Hoping to prove Japanese-American loyalty by contributing to the war effort, he is turned down by other government departments; John Collier, head of the Office of Indian Affairs, persuades him to travel to the internment camp on an Indian reservation in Poston, Arizona, to promote arts and crafts and community. He arrives in May 1942, becoming the camp’s only voluntary internee.
