BIOGRAPHY &
AWARDS
Selfportrait, Koshi Takagi
270 x 147 cm
I am an artist from Tokyo, Japan (*1959) living in Mönchengladbach, Germany. My main areas are realistic drawings of human, animals and nature with pencil or oil paint.
The subjects I paint or draw, are as realistic as possible, without changing their innate character, because this always fascinated me the most.
The balanced, traditional doses of oil paint and brush strokes are my tools that graphically and seamless connect the subject and the enviroment.
And finally, the picture begins to breathe.
1979-83 studied at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts
1983-87 studied at the Master's course of Ichiro Sato in the class for Technique and Material
1983 1st prize for graduation work / purchased by the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts
1984-91 studied at the State Art Academy Düsseldorf in the class of Konrad Klapheck and Class A.R. Penck
1984-86 DAAD Scholarship
1987 award Hedwig and Robert Samuel Foundation
1989 master student of Prof. Konrad Klapheck
2000 purchased by NRW Representation Office of EU, Brussels
2001 purchased by Hückelhoven City
2003 1st Prize (Prix du Jury), Salon du Printemps Luxembourg
2004 portrait "Stefan Effenberg" purchased by Borussia Mönchengladbach (football club)
2011 "21 Letters from c/o mg" Project action for Japan, Rikuzen- takata
2015 art in the municipal office Mönchengladbach
2019 "Koshi Takagi-Prezence" Ikeda Museum of 20th century art Ito Japan
2020 "Portrait of Hans Wilhelm Reiners" mayor of Mönchengladbach (2014-2020) for the townhall gallery
