Zhao Yu (1926-1980) was born in Xiaoyi, Shanxi Province. After he joined the People's Liberation Army, he became engaged in propaganda work. He also was editor of the Northeast China Illustrated […
Artists
Zhao Zhenwan (1938) was born in Laiyang, Shandong Province. He graduated from the art department of a district normal college in Shandong Province in 1954, and worked for many years in education and…
Zheng Hongliu (1925) hails from Nanchuan, Sichuan Province. In 1946, he graduated from the Fine Arts Department of National Chongqing Normal University. In 1951, he joined the army to engage in fine…
Zheng Mukang (1901-1982) was from Chaoyang, Guangdong Province. He served as an apprentice with various painters before he became a teacher in the Chinese Painting Department of the Shanghai Art…
Zheng Shengtian (1938) is from Luoshan, Henan Province. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Zhejiang Art Academy in 1958 and was transferred to work for the Zhejiang People’s Fine…
Zheng Tongxiao (1930) is from Daishan, Zhejiang Province. In the early 1950s, Zheng took art training classes in Shanghai and started making blockprints and cartoons. He later became advertising…
Zheng Wanlin (1957) is from Guiping, Guangxi Province. He entered the Department of Fine Arts Teaching of Guangxi University of Arts in 1980, and studied in the oil painting assistant class of…
Zheng Xiangnong (1943) was born in Yinan, Shandong Province. He now works for the Shandong Fine Arts Publishing House. His paintings pay attention to the freedom of pen and ink and the contrast of…
Zheng Xiaojuan (1940) is from Changsha, Hunan Province. When she was young, her father taught her to appreciate drawing. After her graduation from middle school, she was 'sent to the countryside' to…
Zhong Han (1929-2023) was born in Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province. He studied architecture at Tsinghua University from 1946-1948. In 1955, he entered the Oil Painting Department of the Central Art…
Zhong Zaiben (1932) is a native of Bishan, Sichuan Province. In 1956, he graduated from the Southwest Academy of Fine Arts. He stayed in the school as a teacher in attached middle school, and later…
Zhong Zhihong (1932, deceased, Huolu, Hebei Province) received no formal art training. In 1949, he started to work as an artist in the Shijiazhuang Municipal Cultural Center, and later became deputy-…
Zhou Anqi (1935, Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province) graduated from the Industrial Art Department of the Lu Xun Fine Arts Academy in Shenyang in 1957. Subsequently, he was transferred to the Shanghai Fine…
Zhou Bo (1940) was from Chaoyang, Guangdong Province. In 1965, he graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Guangzhou Art Academy. After graduation, he remained at the Academy to teach.
Zhou Butian (1950) is from Dingxiang, Shanxi Province. Before he joined the People's Liberation Army in 1969, he took art classes and worked in the local cultural centre. In the Navy, he served in…
Zhou Chengli (1927) is from Beijing. In 1952, he graduated from the Department of Applied Arts of the Central Art Academy and took up teaching. He transferred to teach at the Central Academy of…
Zhou Daowu (no dates known), also known as Zhou Qunlu (周群路), graduated from the Shanghai Suzhou School of Fine Arts in Shanghai and the Oil Painting Department of Hubei University of Arts. He is good…
Zhou Dazheng (1941-2020) was from Shashi, Hubei Province. He first studied block printing, but later he switched to oil painting at the Zhejiang Art Academy. After graduation in 1965, he was sent to…
Zhou Guangjia (1926, Beijing) started his artistic education in 1948, when he entered the Beiping National Art Training School. Later, he studied oil painting at the Central Art Academy. In 1951, he…
Zhou Guojun (1954), a member of the Manzu ethnicity, was born in Fengcheng, Liaoning Province. He graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1989. Zhou is…
Zhou Haige (1956) was born in Nanjing. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute in 1983. He is currently a national first-level artist, a member of the Chinese…
Zhou Juejun (1927, Ningxian, Hunan Province) graduated in 1951 from the East China branch of the Central Art Academy. From 1952 till 1957, he headed the Creative Section of the Anhui Provincial Art…
Zhou Lingzhao (1919-2023) hailed from Pingjiang, Hunan Province. He first attended the Huazhong Paint School in Changsha and graduated from the Wuchang Art School in 1935. In 1938, he joined the…
Zhou Lushi (1924) was born in Haicheng, Liaoning Province. From 1946 till 1949, he studied Chinese literature at the Literature Faculty of the Luoyang National Northeast University. In 1950, he…
Zhou Ruiwen (1945) was born in Hailan, Zhejiang Province. In 1970, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Zhejiang Art Academy. After working in various local art institutes, he…
Zhou Ruizhuang (1930) is from Wuxing, Zhejiang Province. In 1949, he enrolled in the East China Branch of the Central Art Academy, and in 1951, he joined the English Department of the Beijing Foreign…
Zhou Shouzhong (no details known) is identified as a commune member.
Zhou Shuqiao (1938-2021) was born in Kaiping, Guangdong Province. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1966. Since then, he has worked in Guangzhou…
Zhou Sicong (1939-1996) was from Ninghe, Hebei Province. Ms. Zhou graduated in 1963 from the Chinese Painting Department of the Central Art Academy. She later worked in the Beijing Painting Institute…
Zhou Xuefen (c. 1934) was born in Shanghai. She graduated from the East China Art College in Wuxi in 1955. She was one of the artists working on a series of "Red Army Long March Stories", serial…
Zhou Yuequan (1920-1990) was from Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. In his youth, he looked for employment in Shanghai and took drawing lessons in the nightclasses run by the Shanghai branch of the Suzhou Art…
Zhou Yuwei (1937) was born in Fengcheng, Liaoning Province. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Lu Xun Art Academy in 1964 and took up teaching. From 1980-1981, he took a refresher…
Zhou Zhaokan (1938) was born in Chaoyang, Guangdong Province. In 1956, he graduated from the Shanghai Electronic Equipment Institute and went to work in a factory. After 1964, he worked in the art…
Zhou Zheng (1934-2021) hailed from Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. After finishing middle school, he studied at the Western Painting Department of the Suzhou Art Training School, and in the early 1950s, he…
Zhu Dunjian (1946) is a native of Peixian, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Nanjing Normal University in 1974. His works have participated in domestic and foreign…
Zhu Guangrong (1942) was born in Linxia City, Gansu Province. When he was young, he was keen on the creation of Chinese paintings, New Year pictures, and comic strips, and had published more than a…
Zhu Naizheng (1935-2013) was a native of Hailan, Zhejiang Province. In 1958, he graduated from the oil painting department of the Central Art Academy. After graduation, he was sent to work in Qinghai…
Zhu Songfa (1942-2020) was born in Ziyun Village in the Huangshan Mountains, Anhui Province. He graduated from the Anhui Academy of Art and the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts.
Zhu's works have…
Zhu Xinong (no details known) is identified as a commune member.
Zhu Xu (1937) was born in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. He studied in the Fine Arts Department of Nanjing Normal University. He has studied Chinese and Western painting. In 1971, he was transferred to…
Ms. Zhu Yi, a former Wuchang Art College student, married fellow artist Wang Juping in Hankou in May 1953.
Zhu Ying (1919-2008) hailed from Xiaoshan, Zhejiang Province. He graduated from the Western Art Section of the National Art Training School in Chongqing in 1940. In the years that followed, he was…
Zhu Zongzhi (1930-1987) was from Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. In 1951, he graduated from the Suzhou Art School and in the following years, he worked as art editor for the Jiangnan Workers Daily (Jiangnan…
Zhuang Yan (1915-2002) was born in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, and studied drawing at the Shanghai Art School. Zhuang was a researcher in the Art Department of the Yan'an Lu Xun Art Academy; deputy…
Zong Qixiang (1917-1999) was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. From a poor family, he was self-taught. In 1939, he entered the Art Department of the Central Academy and after graduating in 1944, he…
Zong Wenlong (1942) is from Shanghai. He graduated from the Zhejiang Art Academy in 1970. In 1983, he joined the Zhejiang People's Fine Arts Publishing House, which he now heads.
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Zou Daqing (1939) is from Xinjian, Jiangxi Province. He graduated from the Blockprint Department of the Guangzhou Art Academy in 1966. He joined the Jiangxi Provincial Mass Art Center in 1970; in…
Zou Liangcai (1944) hails from Shanghang, Fujian Province. He graduated from the Art Department of Jiangxi Normal University in 1966, and went to work in the Jinggangshan Museum. He became attached…
Zou Peizhu (1920-2015) was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Ms. Zou graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Chongqing National Art School in 1944 and went to teach at the National Beiping…
Zou Qikui (1948) was born in Tianjin. He graduated from the high school attached to the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in his early years. As a young man, Zou showed extraordinary artistic talent when…
Zuo Guoshun (1945) was born in Luohe City, Henan Province. He was obsessed with painting when he was young. In middle school, he began to learn painting from the painter of the Luohe Cinema at that…
Zuo Hanzhong (1947) was born in Shuangfeng, Hunan Province. He graduated from the Folk Art Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1987. In September 2005, he was hired as a visiting…
Zuo Hui (1912-1992) was from Lüda, Liaoning Province. He graduated in 1930 from the Lüshun Art Institute and taught in Dalian. In 1934, he went to Japan and studied at the Oil Painting Department of…
Zuo Jianhua (1947) was born in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province. He is a well-known Chinese painter.
Zuo Yi, also known as Chen Zhenguo (陈振国) was born in Xuan'en, Hubei Province, in 1944. In 1956, he entered the middle school attached to the Zhongnan Academy of Fine Arts. He graduated from the…
