MORE GINKGO ART & DESIGN IN THE 20TH CENTURY
 

After the Second World War a revival of the use of the Ginkgo motif by artists took place caused by the Hiroshima Ginkgo and its symbolic meaning. The Ginkgo motif also appeared more or less artful in advertisements. 

'Fujisawa,  Hitori-icho' ( a large Ginkgo tree at Fujisawa)  by Shiko Munakata, Japan
 
 

The famous porcelain factory of Meissen in Germany uses the Ginkgo design on  tea, coffee- and dinner sets and so on.
The Ginkgo design is used in Thuringen (Germany), especially in Weimar, on gold- and silverware, on cloth, glass, porcelain, ceramics, paintings, in magazines, books and so on. Now you can find many souvenir shops in Weimar that sell all kinds of objects with the Ginkgo motif often combined with the poem by Goethe. Mostly there, in Nancy, Paris and Prague and on the internet ornaments and replicas with the Ginkgo design can be seen and bought.
In Japan the Ginkgo motif is used on kimonos, ceramics, cloths, lacquerware, tea- and dinner sets, wood carvings, pendants, brooches, stamps, in haikus etc.
Poetry: The Poet Laureate of the United States Howard Nemerov wrote  'The Consent' and Eve Merriam 'Simile: Willow and Ginkgo'. Felix Pollak wrote 'Ginkgo' in 1973. In Spain Elena Martín Vivaldi wrote the poem  'Ginkgo biloba, Árbol milenario'.
 
 

'Täu - 2'  (dew - 2)  by  Atsuko Kato,  Germany, 1990
 

Today (folk)artists in several countries use the Ginkgo as a motif for their work, also in photography, film and music. They are inspired by the tree, the shape of its leaves (for instance Ginkgo Pictures by Gilbert & George), its history, Goethe's poem and its symbolic meaning. 
 
 

'Ode to the Ginkgo',  two columns with a circle of  13 Ginkgo trees  by  Nout Visser, the Netherlands,  1991
 

In the 21st century the internet has become a new source of information and inspiration for a large public, for instance my homepage!
 

Aichi-ken Prefecture 2010