Wang Meng (artist)

Wang Meng (Chinese王蒙, Pinyin Wang Meng, * 1308, † 1385 ) was a Chinese landscape painter of the 14th century, mainly because it became known in the West that in 2011 a picture named Zhichuan Resettlement for 402.5 million yuan (62, U.S. $ 1 million ) was sold, at the time, just behind a plant Qi Baishi is the second most expensive picture of Asians of all time.

Life

Wang, a grandson of Zhao Mengfu and Guan Daosheng, belonged to the group of "Four Masters" of landscape painting of the Yuan period, like Huang Gongwang, Wu Zhen and Ni Zan he refused to work for the Mongol occupiers. Wang was the youngest of the group and differed in its broader line style of them.

His masterpieces are in the Palace Museum of the Forbidden City in Beijing, Shanghai Museum, National Palace Museum, Taipei, Cleveland Museum of Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art

The painter Dong Qichang Ming was greatly influenced by him.