Chang Dai-chien
Zhang Daqian (Chinese张大千/张大千, Zhang Daqian Pinyin, W.-G. Chang Ta - Ch'ien, born May 10, 1899 in Neijiang, Sichuan, Chinese Empire, † April 2, 1983 in Taipei, Republic of China ) was one became the most renowned Chinese painters of the 20th century, the international celebrity. His original name was Zhang Daqian张 正 权, later he used yuan爰and Jiyuan季 爰as a given name, as well as several other artists names.
Life
1917 was followed by Zhang and his older brother went to Kyoto in Japan, where he studied drawing and printing and dyeing of textiles. In 1919, he returned to Shanghai back in China. He studied with Li Ruiqing literature, calligraphy and painting. He was for a time a Buddhist monk, his monastic name was Daqian大千, he kept later in this name. In 1936, he received a professorship at the Faculty of Arts of the National Central University ( Zhongyang Daxue ) in Nanjing.
At first he studied the so-called four monks from the beginning of the Qing Dynasty ( Zhu Da, Yuan Ji, Kun Can and Hong Ren ).
Zhang was well-versed in the marked by fine brushwork Gongbi style ( gongbi ) of traditional Chinese painting: a master of landscape painting ( shanshui ), the flower and bird painting ( huaniao ) and figure painting ( dubbed renwu ).
During the anti-Japanese war Zhang studied various schools of painting, he went to Dunhuang later and studied there for three years, the paintings in the cave chambers ( Mogao Grottoes, Yulin Grottoes, Western Thousand Buddha Caves ). He has expanded his artistic expression of the style of the Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty addition to the Northern Wei Dynasty, Sui Dynasty and Tang Dynasty.
Zhang later lived in Hong Kong, India, Argentina and Brazil. Since 1972 he has lived in the United States. In 1978 he returned to China and lived in Taipei, Taiwan, where he died in 1983.
The daughter of the painter complained to a newer television film about the artist " with his seven wives ."
Picture books with paintings and calligraphies Zhang published under the titles: Zhang Daqian Huace (张大千 画册) and Zhang Daqian Shuhua ji (张大千 书画 集). His works are highly valued in China today. So achieved in May 2011 in Hong Kong and Mandarin Ducks Lotus his image the record price of HK $ 191 million, which was approximately € 19 million.