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ZHU QIZHAN (1892-1996) 朱屺瞻（1892-1996）
Original name Zengjun, used the sobriquets Qizai and Erzhan laomin, 原名增鈞，號起哉，又號二瞻老民，齋名梅花草堂、癖斯居、養菖蒲
studio names Meihua caotang, Pisiju, Yang changpu shi, and Xiuzhu 室、修竹吾廬等。江蘇太倉人。九歲入私塾，受塾師童頌禹的影響開
wulu, was a native of Taicang, Jiangsu Province. He started home 始習畫。 一九一二年入劉海粟、烏始光及張聿光共同創辦之上海圖畫
school at the age of nine and began to paint under the influence of 美術院（後更名上海美術專科學校）就讀，接觸到後印象派及野獸派
his tutor Tong Songyu. In 1912, Zhu Qizhan attended the Shanghai 大師梵高、塞尚及馬蒂斯的作品。一九一七年負笈東京，師從日本著
Academy of Fine Arts, co-founded by Liu Haishu, Wu Shiguang 名油畫家藤島武二。歸國後，與現代藝術運動先驅人物王濟遠、徐悲
and Zhang Yuguang, where he studied western oil painting and 鴻、汪亞塵、潘玉良等往來密切，分別於一九二八及三六年參與創辦
determined to devote his life to art. In 1917, he went to Tokyo and 藝苑繪畫研究所及默社畫會。一九三三年籌資創建新華藝專繪畫研究
studied with Fujishima Takeji, an established Japanese artist known 所，擔任主任，親自教授中西藝術。建國後獲聘上海中國畫院畫師並
for Romanticist and Impressionist styles. Upon returning to China, Zhu 兼任上海大學美術學院教授，畢生致力於中國藝術之復興與教育。
worked closely with other pioneering artists such as Wang Jiyuan, Xu
Beihong, Wang Yachen, and Pan Yuliang, and cofounded the Yiyuan 朱氏早年創作以油畫為主，五十年代後將油畫技法及用色融入傳統中
Painting Research Institute in 1928, as well as Mo She, a western 國畫的創作中。自言一生以「獨」、「力」、「簡」為追求。所作山
painting society in 1936, both were major art groups at the time. Zhu 水、蔬果自成面貌，筆墨樸拙灑脫，用色鮮豔潑辣。其書法以行楷見
later sponsored the founding of the Painting Department at Shanghai 長，古拙厚重，一如其畫。一九九五年，一百零五歲的朱屺瞻分別在
Xinhua School of Fine Arts, where he taught with celebrated artists 倫敦大英博物館及舊金山亞洲藝術博物館舉辦個展。
such as Huang Binhong, Pan Tianshou and Feng Zikai. After 1950, he
served as a full-time painter at Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy
and was an adjunct professor at the Department of Fine Arts of
Shanghai University. He devoted his entire life to art education and the
revival of Chinese art.

Zhu Qizhan focused on oil painting in his early years but returned to
traditional Chinese painting after the 1950s. Landscapes and still lifes
were among the popular subjects of his paintings. In calligraphy, he
excelled at regular and running scripts with vigorous strokes. With
his artistic pursuits of “uniqueness, strength and simplicity”, Zhu’s
artworks feature rustic, free and brisk brushworks, as well as bright
and sharp colours. In 1995, at the age of 105, Zhu held his sold
exhibitions at the British Museum in London and the Asian Art Museum
of San Francisco.

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