Shijie Zhu - Artist Info

About Shijie Zhu

  • Biography

    Zhu Shijie was born in Suzhou of Jiangsu Province, in 1900. He learned traditional Chinese flower & bird, and landscape paintings from Yan Chunsheng and Fan Shaoyun in 1912.

    In 1918, he decided to try oil painting. In 1922, along with two other artists Yan Wenliang and Hu Cuizhong, he established the Suzhou Academy of Fine Arts.

    In 1985, he was invited to exhibit all of his major works from his lifetime in Beijing, including "Jing Gangshan Mountain" and "Small Wharf at Dongting Lake" which had been collected by the National Art Museum of China, and "Casting Net" collected by Jiangsu Fine Arts Museum.

    He used to teach in Eastern China College of Art, now Nan...

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