Artists
Gan Changlin (Tianjin, 1946) started sketching when still small. After graduating from junior high school, he continued his artistic work under the guidance of a teacher attached to the prefectural…
Gan Wuyan (1940) is from Guigang, Guangxi Province. After his graduation from the Sculpture Department of the Guangxi Art Academy, he worked mainly as art editor in an number of publishing houses. He…
Gao Chao (1927, Jingxian, Hebei Province) entered the National Art School (Beiping) in 1948. In 1951, during the Resist America, Support Korea Movement, he joined the Chinese People's Volunteers and…
Gao Eryi (1946) is from Jiangsu. In 1969, he graduated from Industrial Arts department of the Zhejiang Art Academy. He worked as an art teacher in the Hangzhou Children's Palace.
Gao's specialties…
He was qualified as "worker" (工人) in the impressum of one of the posters he designed.
Gao Guangming (1948) hails from Jiaxian, Shaanxi Province. He used to create art while serving in the Political Department of the Xinjiang Ürümqi Military Region. He now works as art editor for the…
Gao Guofang (1947) is from Linjiang, Jilin Province. He joined the Jilin Railway Cultural Palace in 1971. In 1980, he transfered to the Jilin Provincial Painting Academy and in 1987, he took a…
Gao Hong (1926) is from Xinle, Hebei Province. In 1939, he joined an anti-enemy opera troupe of the political department of the Jin-Cha-Ji military region. In the following years, he received…
Gao Jieyu (1939) was born in Renshou County, Sichuan Province. In 1954, he entered the high school attached to the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. In 1957, he entered the stage art design major of the…
Gao Minsheng (1944) hails from Chang'an, Shaanxi Province. He graduated from the Chinese Painting department of the Xi'an Art Academy in 1968. He has been employed in the Yan'an Memorial Hall, the…
Gao Qingyan was born in 1938 in Huaxian, Shaanxi Province. He is currently a member of the Chinese Artists Association, a national first-class artist, and a full-time painter of the Shaanxi…
Gao Quan (1936-2014) hailed from Bengbu, Anhui Province. He entered the Oil Painting Department of the Central Art Academy in 1956, and graduated from Dong Xiwen's workshop in 1961. In 1962, he…
Gao Shan (1932-1967) was the alias of Wen Yongxiong (温勇雄), a member of the Gaoshan ethnic group. Wen was a native of Taibei, Taiwan. He was a well-known for his watercolors and serial comics. He…
Gao Shaofei (1951) is from Xixia, Shandong Province. He is currently employed as an art editor responsible for journals published by the Logistics Department of the People's Liberation Army.
Gao…
Gao Tongbao (1937) was born in Jinzhou, Hebei Province. He graduated from the Hebei Academy of Art (now the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts). Gao is an expert in Chinese painting, flower and bird…
Gao Xuemin (1932) was born in Liquan, Shaanxi Province. He graduated from the Art Department of Northwest Normal University in 1956. Gao is known for his paper-cutting art and knowledge of local…
Gao Yaguang (1932) is from Yao'an, Jilin Province. Ms. Gao graduated from the Drawing Department of the Central Art Academy in 1953 and was sent to work as a teacher in the secondary school attached…
Gao Zhemin was born in Tianjin in 1935. In 1950, he was admitted to the Tianjin Art Museum to study Western painting. Later, he worked at the Tianjin Democracy Publishing House. He later became a…
Gao Zhimin (no details known), a Huxian peasant painter, is identified as a member of the Songcun Commune Dayankou Brigade (宋村公社大堰口大队), Huxian County, Shaanxi Province.
Gao Zhongyan, of Bai ethnicity, was born in 1942 in Heqing, Yunnan Province. In 1968, he graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Central Institute of Minorities and subsequently worked in the…
Ge Pengren (1941, Dongliao, Jilin Province) graduated from the Middle School Attached to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1961, and from the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine…
Ge Sha (1931-2015) was born in Heihe City, Heilongjiang Province. His original name was Sun Qinglin (孙庆林). He was of Sino-Russian mixed race and belonged to the Russian ethnicity. At the age of 17,…
Ge Wei (1923) is from Xinyang, Henan Province. He graduated from the Arts Department of the Normal University under the Central University in 1949 and was transferred in subsequent years to teach at…
Gong Jingchong (1940) is a native of Zhejiang Province. He graduated from the high school attached to the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in July 1962 and was assigned to the Zhejiang Kunqu Opera…
Gong Zhenbao (1933, Hengshui, Hebei Province) graduated from the Drawing Department of the Central Art Academy in 1953 and taught at the North East Art School and the Lu Xun Art Academy. From 1971-…
Gu Bingxin (1923-2001) was from Shanghai. He started as an editor with the Shanghai Lianlian shudian (Comics Bookstore) in 1950 before he joined the East China People's Fine Art Publishing House in…
Gu Gan (1942-2020) was from Changsha, Hunan Province. He graduated from the middle school attached to the Central Art Academy in 1962. In 1975, he was assigned to work in the People's Literature…
Gu Gang (1942-2016, Weixian, Hebei Province) graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Central Art Academy in 1980. In 1981, he became a professor in the Jilin Art Academy. Gu was known for…
Gu Pan (1940) was born in Sheyang, Jiangsu Province. After graduation from the middle school attached to the Shanghai branch of the Central Art Academy, he entered the Oil Painting Department of the…
Gu Pu (1923) was born in Shanghai. In his younger years, he studied Chinese painting and seal carving. At the time of the anti-Japanese War, he worked in the liberated areas of Jiangsu and Shandong,…
Gu Qun (1928) was born in Beijing. She studied Western painting at the Peking National School of Art in 1944, and graduated from the Fine Art Department of Huabei United University in 1949. She later…
Gu Yizhou (1923-1987) was born in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province. Gu joined the Eight Route Army in 1937 and started with creative work in 1942. In the following years, he was active in occupied areas as…
Gu Yuan (1919-1996), a native of Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, is mainly known as a woodcut artist. ln 1938, Gu joined the Communist forces in Shaanxi. He studied at the Lu Xun Academy (鲁艺, Luyi) in…
Gu Yue was born in 1938 in Sichuan. He graduated from the Sichuan Art Academy in 1960. He now teaches at Southwestern Normal University and the Architectural Art Research Office at the same…
Gu Zhao'en (1939) was a native of Ningjin, Hebei Province. Gu is known for his comic strips and illustrations. After 1958, he served as the art editor of the Shijiazhuang Daily (石家庄日报) and Jianshe…
Gu Zhujun was born in Haimen, Jiangsu Province, in 1933. In 1954, he graduated from the Shanghai Branch of the Central Art Academy and in 1963, he graduated from the Oil Painting research class of…
Guan Hezhang (1913-1995), member of the Man nationality, was born in Huhehaote (Hohhot), Inner Mongolia. After his graduation from the Chinese Painting Department of the Jinghua Art School in 1934,…
Guan Mansheng (1936) is from Xinmin, Liaoning Province. After 1953, he studied in the middle school attached to the Northeast Art College. He worked in the Taonan City Cultural Center of Jilin; the…
Guan Qiming was born in Tonghua, Jilin Province, in 1942. After his graduation from the Jilin Provincial Art Academy undergraduate course in 1962, he joined the People's Liberation Army. Guan has…
Guan Shanyue (1912-2000, Yangjiang, Guangdong Province) graduated from the Guangzhou Municipal Teachers Training College in 1933. His early work consisted of sketches made in Southwestern and…
Guan Zeju (1941) hails from Yangjiang, Guangdong Province. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Guangzhou Arts Academy in 1966, and continued his studies there in 1978.
Guan, who is…
Guang Tingbo (1938, Dalian, Liaoning Province) is of Manchu ethnicity. In 1964, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Lu Xun Fine Arts Academy, and found employment in the Liaoning…
Gui Runnian (1942) was born in Wuhan, Hubei Province. He graduated from the Guangzhou Art Academy in 1968. He studied under famous painters, including Guan Shanyue. Later, he served as the director…
Guo Chan (no details known) was active as an advertising designer in Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s.
Guo Changxin (1941) was born in Gaixian, Liaoning Province. After his graduation from the Blockprint Department of the Lu Xun Art Academy in 1965, he was assigned to work at the Liaoning Fine Arts…
Guo Chongguang (1931) is from Huai'an, Hebei Province. After his graduation from middle school he was apprentice of various artists. In 1951, he started working in the Art and Literature Section of…
Guo Ke (郭克, 1925), formerly known as Guo Kekuan, was born in Tianshui, Gansu Province. In 1950, he graduated from the Chongqing Southwest College of Fine Arts with a major in Chinese painting. Since…
Guo Ling (1930), oroginally known as Guo Qingnian (郭庆年), was born in Tianjin. He graduated from North China University in 1949 and served as an art member of the Art Troupe of the Southern Work Team…
Guo Runlin (1940, Shanghai) is a painter. In 1953, he started studying watercolor under the influence of Ran Xi, a master in watercolor. After 1960, he worked as a designer in a radio factory. In…
Guo Shanping (1938) formerly was Director of the Beidaihe Cultural Palace. He is known for his calligraphy.
Guo Shaogang (1932) was born in Changping, Beijing. In 1949, he was admitted to the National Beiping Art College. In 1953, he graduated from the Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine…
Guo Shouxiang (1942) was born in Pingding Dayu, Shanxi Province. He was adopted by others as a child, so he called himself "Rootless Grass" (无根草).
In 1969, he was transferred to the Propaganda…
Guo Tongjiang (1925-2003) was born in Dongguan, Guangdong Province. He taught himself to paint at the age of 7. Because of his poor family, he never went to a formal art school. He was a real peasant…
