Hugo Munsterberg was born in Germany, the son of the famous German Orientalist Oskar Munsterberg. He has lived in the United States since 1935, receiving his A.B. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University, where he followed his father's footsteps by specializing in Oriental art, studying under Benjamin Rowland, Langdon Warner, and Laurence Sickman. After completing his doctoral thesis on Chinese Buddhist bronzes, he taught Oriental art first at Wellesley College and then at Michigan State College. He was Professor of Art History at, the International Christian University, Tokyo, until 1956 and is now teaching at New York State University.
In addition to many articles and book reviews on the art and culture of China and Japan, he has published several books, including: The Folk Arts of Japan, The Arts of Japan: An Illustrated History, and The Art of the Chinese Sculptor.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
WORKS ON CHINESE LANDSCAPE PAINTING
L. Bachhofer. "Chinesisiche Landschaftsmalerei," vom X-XIII, Jahrundert, Sinica, X, 1-2.
E. Dietz. Shan Shut. Vienna, 1943.
O. Fischer. Chinesische Landschaftsmalerei (Rev. ed.), Berlin, 1943.
S. Ise. Ko Gaishi yori Kei Ko niitaru Shina Sansui-gwashi. Tokyo, 1934.
A. Salmony. Chinesische Landschaftsmalerei. Berlin, 1921.
A. Soper. "Early Chinese Landscape Painting," Art Bulletin, (June, 1941).
W. Speiser. "Die Yuan Klassik der Landschaftsmalerei, Ostasiatische Zeitschrift, N. F. VII, 1.
TRANSLATIONS OF CHINESE TEXTS ON PAINTING
V. Contag. Die Beiden Steine. Brunswick, 1950.
S. Sakanishi. An Essay on Landscape painting (Kuo Hsi). London, 1935.
____. The Spirit of the Brush. London, 1939.
O. Siren. The Chinese on the Art of Painting. Peiping, 1936.
A. Soper. "T'ang Ch'ao Ming Hua Lu" (Chu Ching-hsan), Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America (New York), IV (1950).
____. Kuo Jo-hs's Experiences in Painting. Washington, 1951.
GENERAL BOOKS ON CHINESE PAINTING
L. Binyon. Painting in the Tar East (Rev. ed.), London, 1934.
W. Cohn. Chinese Painting. London, 1948.
J. C. Ferguson. Chinese Painting. Chicago, 1927.
H. A. Giles. Introduction to the History of Chinese Pictorial Art. London, 1918.
E. Grosse. Ostasiatische Tuschmalerei. Berlin, 1923.
F. Hirth. Scraps from a Collector's Notebook- Leiden, 1905.
B. March. Some Technical Terms of Chinese Painting. Baltimore, 1935.
G. Rowley. Principles of Chinese Painting. Princeton, 1947.
O. Siren. History of Early Chinese Painting. London, 1933.
____. History of Later Chinese Painting. London, 1938.
W. Speiser. Meisterwerke Chinesischer Malerei. Berlin, 1947.
A. Waley. Introduction to the Study of Chinese Painting. London, 1923.
COLLECTIONS OF REPRODUCTIONS OF
CHINESE PAINTINGS
M. Akiyama. Sgen Meigwa Sh. Tokyo, 1930.
L. Binyon. Chinese Paintings in English Collections. London, 1927.
E. Chavannes and R. Petrucci. La Peinture Chinoise au Musee Cernuschi. Paris, 1914.
L. Hackney and Yau Chang-foo. A Study of Chinese Painting in the Moore Collection. New York, 1940.
B. Harada. A Pageant of Chinese Painting. Tokyo, 1936.
Illustrated Catalogue of the Chinese Government Exhibition of Chinese Art in London, Vol. III. Nanking, 1935.
Kokka. Tokyo, monthly since 1889.
Ku Kung Shu Hua Chi, Vols. I-XLV. Peiping, 1930 ff.
O. Siren. Chinese Paintings in American Collections. London, 1927.
____. Early Chinese Paintings from the Bahr Collection. London, 1938.
K. Tomita. Portfolio of Chinese Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, 1938.
S. Tajima. Nans Meigaen. Tokyo, 1908-13.
Ts Genmin Meigwa Taikwan. Tokyo, 1928.
Ty Bijitsu Taikwan, Vols. VII-XII. Tokyo, 1908 ff.
WORKS ON JAPANESE PAINTING
W. Anderson. The Pictorial Arts of Japan. London, 1886.
L. Binyon. Painting in the Far East (4th ed.), London, 1934.
H. P. Bowie. On the Laws of Japanese Painting. San Francisco, 1911.
W. Cohn. Stilanalysen als Einfhrung in die Japanische Malerei. Berlin, 1908.
J. C. Covell. Under the Seal of Sessh. New York, 1941.
S. Elisseff. La Peinture Contemporaine au Japon. Paris, 1923.
E. Grosse. Die Ostasiatische Tuschmalerei. Berlin, 1922.
H. Minamoto. An Illustrated History of Japanese Art. Kyoto, 1935.
A. Morrison. The Painters of Japan. London, 1911.
S. Omura. History of Japanese Pictorial Art. Tokyo, 1909.
Pageant of Japanese Art, Vols. I-II. Tokyo, 1952.
R. Paine. Ten Japanese Paintings. New York, 1939.
A. Soper. "The Rise of Yamato-e," Art Bulletin, XXIV (1942).
K. Toda. Japanese Scroll Painting. Chicago, 1935.
N. Tsuda. Ideals of Japanese Painting. Tokyo, 1940.
Y. Yashiro. Japanische Malerei der Gegenwart. Berlin, 1931.
BOOKS ON JAPANESE PRINTS
O. Benesch. Die Sptmeister des Japanischen Holzschitts. Vienna, 1938.
L. Binyon. Japanese Color Prints. London, 1923.
E. d. Goncourt. Hokusai. Paris, 1896.
J. Kurth. Die Geschichte des Japanischen Holzschitts, 3 vols. Leipzig, 1925.
M. Narazaki and I. Kond. Nippon Fkei Hangashi-ron. Tokyo, 1943.
Y. Noguchi. Hiroshige. Tokyo, 1934.
____. Hiroshige and Japanese Landscapes. Tokyo, 1934.
____. Hokusai. London, 1925.
W. v. Seidlitz. History of Japanese Color Prints. London, 1920.
E. Strange. Color Prints of Hiroshige. London, 1925.
COLLECTIONS OF REPRODUCTIONS OF
JAPANESE PAINTINGS
Catalogue of the Exhibition of Japanese Painting and Sculpture sponsored by the Government of Japan. Washington, 1953.
Geienjuh , Vol. II. Kyoto, 1953.
Katalog der Ausstellung Altjapanischer Kunst. Berlin, 1939.
Kokka . Tokyo, monthly since 1889.
Nihon-ga Taisei, 28 vols. Tokyo, 1931.