Shinkichi Tajiri

Date of birth
1923

Biography

Shinkichi Tajiri is a sculptor of Japanese-American descent. After the Second World War, he settled in Paris in order to attend lessons given by figures such as Ossip Zadkine. In the mid-1950s, Tajiri came to the Netherlands and, after a short stay in Amsterdam, settled in the Limburg town of Baarlo.

Between 1955 and 1970, Tajiri made several short experimental films, with The Vipers and Fietsers/Bicycles being the best known.

Tajiri, who for a long time was a professor at the Hochschule der Bildende Künste in West Berlin, died in Baarlo in 2009.

filmography

  1. 1955
    Camera, Director, Editing, Producer
  2. 1955
    Camera, Director, Editing, Producer
  3. 1959
    Camera, Director, Editing, Producer
  4. 1960
    Camera, Director, Editing, Producer

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