Yoshi TAKAHASHI was born in Tokyo in 1943. After study­ing at the Nation­al Uni­ver­si­ty of Fine Art and Music in Tokyo, he moved to Ger­many in 1966, where he com­plet­ed his fine arts degree in Munich. In 1974 he moved to Salzburg, where he learned the aquatint tech­nique of etch­ing at the Salzburg Inter­na­tion­al Sum­mer Acad­e­my of Fine Arts. In addi­tion to his numer­ous teach­ing activ­i­ties from 1973 to 1993, includ­ing at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Munich and the Salzburg Inter­na­tion­al Sum­mer Acad­e­my of Fine Arts, Taka­hashi cre­at­ed numer­ous works on paper, can­vas and graph­ics. From 1974, Taka­hashi devot­ed him­self inten­sive­ly to print­mak­ing tech­niques. In his painter­ly and graph­ic col­or mosaics, the artist invites the view­er to enter gar­dens and dis­cov­er plants, ani­mals and hous­es step by step. The artist died in Bad Reichen­hall (Ger­many) in 1998.
1981 ̶ first solo exhi­bi­tion at Galerie Welz.

Yoshi TAKAHASHI was born in Tokyo in 1943. After study­ing at the Nation­al Uni­ver­si­ty of Fine Art and Music in Tokyo, he moved to Ger­many in 1966, where he com­plet­ed his fine arts degree in Munich. In 1974 he moved to Salzburg, where he learned the aquatint tech­nique of etch­ing at the Salzburg Inter­na­tion­al Sum­mer Acad­e­my of Fine Arts. In addi­tion to his numer­ous teach­ing activ­i­ties from 1973 to 1993, includ­ing at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Munich and the Salzburg Inter­na­tion­al Sum­mer Acad­e­my of Fine Arts, Taka­hashi cre­at­ed numer­ous works on paper, can­vas and graph­ics. From 1974, Taka­hashi devot­ed him­self inten­sive­ly to print­mak­ing tech­niques. In his painter­ly and graph­ic col­or mosaics, the artist invites the view­er to enter gar­dens and dis­cov­er plants, ani­mals and hous­es step by step. The artist died in Bad Reichen­hall (Ger­many) in 1998.
1981 ̶ first solo exhi­bi­tion at Galerie Welz.


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