Beschreibung:

44 : 32,5 cm. 10 coloured plates. Original cloth portfolio with title-label.

Bemerkung:

Qi Baishi ??? (1864-1957). - Qi Baishi was one of the most famous painters of the 20th century and a proprietor of modernist currents. He was born son of a farmer in 1864, in Xiangtan in the Hunan province. He died 1957 in Beijing. The artist began painting at the age of 14 and started on a tour through China's famous landscapes in 1904, where he attained great fame. In 1917, Qi Baishi then settled in Beijing. He was voted into the national congress of the people in 1953 and was the first president of the Chinese association of artists. Three years earlier, he was awarded the International Peace Price for 1950, by the World Peace Council. Qi was a frontrunner of modernist painting and developed his own important expressive style, of the so-called Chinese scholarly painting.