Feng Zikai

Feng Zikai (Chinese丰子恺/丰子恺, Pinyin Feng Zǐkǎi; born November 9, 1898 in Tongxiang, Zhejiang, † 15 September 1975) was a Chinese art critic, painter and caricaturist.

After he had finished the university in Hangzhou in 1919, Feng studied music and art in Japan. In 1922 he returned to China and worked then as a teacher in Shanghai. When he started later as editor at Kaiming Publishing House, were his works - paintings, essays and cartoons - first published. After 1949, the People's Republic of China was founded, he held several political posts in this.

With his works, he was next to Ye Zhang Leping Qianyu and one of the founders of modern Chinese cartoon. When in 1925 his popular Zikai manhua (子 恺 漫画, zǐkǎi Manhua ) first appeared in the literary magazine Wenxuezhoubao, called his work, based on the Japanese word " manga ", " Manhua ". This term is used in China today for comics in general. From 1927 to 1973 he created the series of images Hu sheng hua ji (护 生 画集, HU Sheng huà jí ).

When his hometown was destroyed in November 1937, he began to draw anti-Japanese cartoons. Some appeared in the magazine Kangzhan Wenyi of the All- China Resistance Association of Writers and Artists, which he had joined.