Qinbo Jin - Artist Info

About Qinbo Jin

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Qinbai Jin
  • Biography

    Born in Zhejiang, China. Nephew of Jin Cheng, he had a father, Jin Qiong-lin, who was a collector and part of an industrialist family.

    Jin Qin-Bo graduated from Yan-Jing University with BA in liberal arts in 1933. In 1937, he was caught in Beijing by Japanese occupation. In 1947, his father sent him to England and France for further study. Then in 1949, he moved to Taiwan.

    In 1940, he joined faculty of Nan Yang Normal University with Pu Ru and Huang Jun-Bi. In 1959, Jin went to Rhode Island School of Design as a visiting professor, and in the early 1960s, he taught in Iowa City, where his painting showed influence of abstract expressionism.

    Later he taught in New Asia College at the Chinese University of Hong Kong an...

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