Lü Lin (1920-1994), also known as Lü Lin (吕林), was born in Ji County, Shanxi Province. From 1938 to 1939, he served as a propaganda officer and art editor under the leadership of the underground party at the Shanxi National Revolutionary University. Afterwards, he first entered the Northern Shaanxi Public School, and in September 1940, he was admitted to the fourth phase of the Fine Arts Department of the Yan'an Lu Xun Academy of Arts and Letters. During the War of Liberation, he went south with the army, successively participating in the founding of art colleges in Linfen, Xi'an, and Chongqing, and served as a leader, training a large number of backbone talents for the arts. In the 1960s, Lü Lin came into contact with the cliff tombs and portrait bricks of the Han Dynasty, and became very interested in the aesthetics conveyed in them. After 20 years of visits, rubbings, and sorting out, he published "Sichuan Han Dynasty Portrait Art (四川汉代画像艺术)" in the 1980s, which contains more than a hundred kinds of portrait brick image materials.

Lü was known as an art educator, printmaker and ink painter.