Zhu Dequn - From a Chinese Descendant to a Member of the French Academy - Library of Excellent Contemporary Biographical Writers of China

Author: Zhu Qing
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Mr. Zhu Dequn is one of the renowned overseas Chinese artists today. Born in 1920 in Baishi Town, Xiaoxian County, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, into a family of cultured doctors, he entered the National Hangzhou Art College in 1935 to study Western painting. From 1944 to 1949, he taught at the School of Engineering, Nanjing Central University, and from 1951 to 1955, he taught at the Normal College in Taiwan. In 1955, he went to France to pursue his artistic development and has been living in Paris ever since. This biography narrates and analyzes the ordinary yet extraordinary journey of a young man born and raised in China in the 1930s as he ascends the pinnacle of world art.