Zang Erkang (1936) was born in Tieling, Liaoning Province. In 1960, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Shenyang Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts. He has taught at the Harbin Art…
Artists
Zeng Chaohua (1932-2004) was born in Chongqing, Sichuan Province. He graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts with a major in Chinese painting in 1958. He was an honorary director of the…
Zeng Hongliu (1938-2011) was born in Shanwei Fishing Port, Guangdong Province. In 1965, he graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. From 1965-1984, he…
Zeng Jigang (1948-2020) was born in Suining, Sichuan Province. His works have been selected for many important national exhibitions sponsored by the China Artists Association, and have won the Bronze…
Zeng Riwen (1925-2009), of Zhuang ethnicity, was born in Yongning, Guangxi Province. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Guilin Guangxi Art School in 1952. The next year he…
Zeng Shanqing (1932) was born in Shaoyang, Hunan Province. He entered the National Beiping College of Art in 1946, graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1950 with a postgraduate degree.…
Zeng Tianzhong (1940) was born in Luzhou, Sichuan Province. After graduating from Southwest Normal University in 1961, he was engaged in mass art education.
Zeng is known for watercolors, gouaches,…
Zeng Tingzhong (1940) hails from Chengdu, Sichuan Province. After his graduation from the Southwest Normal University in 1963, he has been teaching in local art schools and cultural centers.
Zeng is…
Zeng Zhaoqiang was born in 1953. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts of Nanjing University of the Arts in 1982, majoring in oil painting. His oil paintings have participated in many…
Zhai Runshu (1927) hails from Nanhe, Hebei Province. During his childhood, his grandfather and father instilled in him a love for calligraphy and drawing. After finishing Xingtai Normal College, he…
Zhai Zuhua (1947) was born in Shanghai. He graduated from the Shanghai Light Industry College in 1967. A member of the Chinese Artists Association and the Shanghai Artists Association, he is…
Zhan Jianjun (1931-2023) was born in Shenyang, Liaoning Province. Zhan was of Manzu (Manchu) ethnicity. He graduated from the Central Art Academy in 1953, but took up his studies again in 1955, when…
Zhang Anpu (1947) is from Jiading, Shanghai. In the 1960s, he took several art classes to become an art cadre in the Jiading cultural centre in 1972. He transferred to the Jiefang ribao [解放日报,…
Zhang Baogui (no details known) is a member of the Lu Xun Art Academy.
Zhang Baoliang (1942) was born in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. In 1981, he studied in the oil research class of the Oil Painting Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts. He is currently the deputy…
Zhang Biwu (1905-1987) was born in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province. At the age of 15, he went to Shanghai and worked in the Sincere and Wing On department stores. The calendar posters given out at the end…
Zhang Chengsi (1939) was born in Gai County, Liaoning Province. He taught at the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts.He was qualified as "worker" (工人) in the impressum of one of the posters he designed.
Ms Zhang Chunxia (no details known), a Huxian peasant painter, is identified as a member of the Qindu Commune, Qinsi Brigade (秦渡公社秦四大队), Huxian County, Shaanxi Province.
Zhang Cizhong (1924-2019) was a native of Shanghai. He was the first-generation famous book binding artist in New China. In 1957, he was named and criticized by the People's Daily and was classified…
On the two 1951 posters, Zhang Daoyi is identified as being in the second year of the Shandong University Art Group (山東大學藝術系美術組二年級).
Zhang Daping (1945) was from Bobai, Guangxi Province. He loved painting since childhood and was self-taught. In 1965, after graduating from high school, he joined the production team in Laibin County…
Zhang Dawei (1955) is from Liaoning. He joined the People's Liberation Army in 1970 and graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the PLA Art Academy in 1984. Over the years, he was attached to…
Zhang Daxin (1917-2009) was born in Chuansha, Shanghai. He received training from a.o. Jin Meisheng in 1936, graduated from the Shanghai Fine Arts Professional School, and started working for the…
Zhang Dejun (1946) is from Nantong, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from the Art Department of the Nanjing Art Academy in 1968. From 1970 on, he worked in mass art education. Currently, he is with the…
Zhang Dian (1930), also known as Zhang Dianchen (张殿宸), was born in Changli, Hebei Province. In 1951, he graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Lu Xun Academy of Arts (the predecessor of the…
Zhang Dianyu (1929) is from Fenghua, Zhejiang Province. Zhang graduated from the Drawing Department of the East China Branch of the Central Art Academy in 1955, and subsequently taught at numerous…
Zhang Ding (1917-2010) was from Heishan, Liaoning Province. He studied traditional Chinese painting (guohua) at the Peking School of Arts, went to Nanjing in 1936 as a cartoonist, and moved on to Yan…
Zhang Dingzhao (1938) hails from Pucheng, Fujian Province. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Zhejiang Art Academy in 1963. Zhang was employed at the Shanghai Huadong Normal…
Zhang Diping (1942) was from Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province. She graduated from the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor’s degree in Chinese painting in 1965. She is currently a painter at the…
Zhang Dongsheng (1952) was born in Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Jingdezhen Ceramics Institute. Zhang is known for his Chinese paintings, New Year…
Zhang Fanfu (1918-1979), formerly known as Zhang Fuxian (张复贤), was born in Emei, Sichuan Province. As a student, he participated in the Progressive Student Movement. In 1936, he graduated from the…
Zhang Fulong (1942) was born in Hejian, Hebei Province. He started his carreer with the Tianjin Fine Arts Publishing House in 1958. In 1979, he transferred to the Tianjin chapter of the Chinese…
Zhang Guang (1941) was born in Leting, Hebei Province. After his graduation from the Chinese Painting Department of the Central Art Academy in 1965, he went straight to the People's Fine Arts…
Zhang Guangli (1956) is from Hebei. He was engaged in creating and editing New Year pictures and posters at the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House from 1974 to 1990. Zhang is a member of…
Zhang Guangyu (1900-1965) was a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. From 1918 on, Zhang studied in Shanghai and designed advertising for the Nanyang Tobacco Company, the British American Tobacco…
Zhang Guanzhe (1947) is from Tailai, Heilongjiang Province. He started his schooling in the Art Training Section of Inner Mongolia Normal University in 1963. From 1969 onward, he worked in a number…
Zhang Gufeng (1939) is a native of Chengdu, Sichuan Province. He graduated from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in 1967 and learned from his father, the famous printmaker Zhang Yangxi. Zhang Gufeng…
Zhang Guiming (1939-2014, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province) graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Zhejiang Art Academy in 1964 and subsequently joined the Shanghai Chinese Painting…
Photographer
Zhang Herong (1932, Shanghai) went to Hong Kong in 1948 to study sketching and oil painting at the Wanguo Art Training School. In 1952, he entered the Art Department of the Nanjing Normal University…
Zhang Hongfei (1950) is a native of Yitong, Jilin Province. After his graduation from middle school, he was 'sent to the countryside' to settle with the peasants. Later, he was able to transfer to a…
Zhang Hua (1956), also known as Charles Zhang, was born in Kunming, Yunnan Province. He graduated from the Central Academy of Art and Design (now Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts) in 1982. He…
Zhang Huaijiang (1922-1990) was born in Wenling, Zhejiang Province. He taught himself to make woodcuts in 1938, and in 1943, he entered the art school of the South East United National University. In…
Zhang Huibin (1942) hails from Jinan, Shandong Province. Handicapped because of an accident at the age of 11, he was paralyzed for seven years and received no formal art education. In 1967, he joined…
Zhang Huimin (1936) is from Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. In 1960, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Northwest Art Training School. He now teaches in the Oil Painting Department of the…
Zhang Jianzhong (1937-2002) was from Kunming, Yunnan Province. In 1959, he graduated from the High School Attached to the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, and in 1964, he graduated from the Oil Painting…
Zhang Jiayan (1917- 2013) was from Nantong, Jiangsu Province. In 1935, she graduated from the Western Painting Department of the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. In 1936, she entered the Art Department…
Zhang Jiemin (1928) was a native of Yichuan, Henan Province. He is also known under his pseudonym Jiaming (稼明). Zhang graduated from the National Art College with a bachelor's degree in Chinese…
Zhang Jinbiao (1935) was born in Shengzhou, Zhejiang Province. He graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in 1964 and became editor and deputy editor of the…
Qualified as "Worker" (工人) on the 1976 poster "The spring breeze brings warmth".
Zhang Jun (1931-2013) was born in Yantai, Shandong Province. He joined the army in June 1946 and the Communist Party that same year. In the summer of 1960, he began interviewing Lei Feng, an advanced…
Zhang Kenan (1919-1975) was from Daixian, Shanxi Province. In 1937, he started working with units of the Red Army in the Jin-Cha-Ji (Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei) Border Region. After the Anti-Japanese War,…
Zhang Kuan (1921-2009) was from Guoyang, Anhui Province. In 1946, he graduated from the Art Department of Anhui University and taught at the Linquan District Normal College. In 1948, he became head…
Zhang Lang (1928) is from Guangji, Hubei Province. After his graduation from the Wuchang Art School, he studied at the Art Department of the Art Academy of the Central Plains University. From 1958-…
Zhang Lei (1962) was born in Hefei, Anhui Province. He graduated from Anhui Normal University in 1986 and took part in a refresher course at the China Academy of Art in 1988.
Zhang Leping (1910-1992) was born in Haijian, Zhejiang Province. In 1934, he started drawing cartoons. Zhang joined Ye Qianyu and others in 1935 in an anti-Japanese cartoon propaganda team. In the…
Zhang Lin (1948) was a native of Huxian County, Shaanxi Province. He started painting in 1965, and his first work was published in the October 1965 issue of People's Pictorial (人民画报). Many of his…
Zhang Lingzhi (1927), from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, entered the Hangzhou National Art School in 1948 and later transferred to the Applied Arts Department of the Central Academy of Art, where she…
Zhang Longji (1929-2007) was born in Shengxian, Zhejiang Province. In 1953, he graduated from the Drawing Department of the Huadong (East China) Branch of the Central Art Academy. For many years, he…
Zhang Luan (Tianjin, 1924-2009) used the pen name Zhang Mimei (张米玫). Ms. Zhang learned drawing at the knee of her father. In the 1950s, she designed New Year pictures and comic strips while working…
Zhang Luhong (1956) was from Shanghai. She studied in the adult college class of the Shanghai Theater Academy and the Arts and Crafts Department of Shanghai University Academy of Fine Arts. She…
Zhang Mingsheng (1941-2012) was born in Changning, Sichuan Province. He graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. In 1998, he was invited to participate in the Guangzhou International Art Fair…
Zhang Peichu (1944, Taicang, Jiangsu Province) entered the Chinese Painting Department of the Shanghai Fine Arts Training School in 1960, but joined the People's Liberation Army two years later.…
Zhang Pincao (1936) comes from Anji, Zhejiang Province. He graduated in 1961 from the Chinese Painting Department of the Zhejiang Art Academy and subsequently spent his time teaching. He now is…
or Zhang Pingdeng (張平等)?
possible dates: 1934-2015
Zhang Qiongzhi (1923-2004) was from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. In 1948, she entered the Hangzhou National Academy of Fine Arts to study. In 1951, she entered the Painting Department of the East…
Zhang Renyuan (1949) is from Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. His education started at the Nanchang Municipal Children's Palace. He was admitted to the Oil Painting Department of the China Academy of Art…
Zhang Ruiheng (1918), a figure painter, was born in Xiong County, Hebei Province. He is good at classical character themes, and his works have had a huge influence both at home and abroad.
Zhang Ruji (1931) is born in Beijing. He started his art studies at the National Beiping Art School in 1948 and graduated from the Drawing Department of the Central Art Academy in 1952. That same…
Zhang Ruwei (1944) was born in Zhenhai, Zhejiang Province. In 1960, he started work. Over the years, he designed commercial displays and exhibitions. Only in 1980, he enrolled in the Tianjin Art…
Zhang Shaocheng (1944) was born in Hepu, Guangxi Province. He graduated from the middle school attached to the Guangzhou Art Academy in 1963, and worked as a designer for the Guangzhou Industrial Art…
Zhang Sheng (1931) was born in Gaixian, Liaoning Province. In 1956, he graduated from the Painting Department on the Lu Xun Art Academy, then called the Dongbei College of Art. Until his retirement…
Zhang Shijian (1926-2009) was born in Lizhang Village, Zhejiang Province. His uncle was Zhang Zhenduo, a famous Chinese ink painter and art educator (1908-1989); his cousin Zhang Shuqi (1900-1957)…
Peasant painter from Pi county (丕县, Jiangsu Province), active ca. 1958.
Zhang Songhe (1912-2005) was from Guangdong Province. In 1930, he studied painting in the Guangzhou Art Museum and Western painting in the Guangzhou Academy. In 1935, he graduated in sculpture. After…
Zhang Songnan (1942) is from Shanghai. In 1964, he graduated from the Central Art Academy and subsequently worked in a district propaganda unit in the Chaoyang District, Beijing, until 1978. In that…
