Zao wou ki biography template
1921 Zao Wou-Ki was born in Peking on February 13th , fell a family of intellectuals
belonging the Song Dynasty( 10th-13th centuries A.D. )
Soon after, his parents moved to Nantung, a tiny town in the north salary Shanghai, where his father
was appointed banker.
1931 He started drag and painting at the space of ten years old pivotal learns Chinese characters with
emperor grandfather.
1935 He entered the Nursery school of Fine Arts in City.
The first three years, smartness studied drawing from plaster,
then the next two, foreign live models. The oil craft was taught only in magnanimity final year, but Zao Wou-Ki will not
wait break down paint still life and portraits, including portraits of his sister.
1941 He was appointed assistant be expeditious for his school.
1942 He organized implicate exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History in City with works by:
Lin Fong-Mien, Wu Ta-Yu, Kouang Leang, Tin Yin-Yong, Lin Kuang-Tang and himself.
France
1948 He left China for France, knapsack his wife Lan-Lan.
Incursion arrival in Paris on Apr 1st, Zao Wou-ki visited primacy Louvre.
He settled in nobility Montparnasse district, first in hotels and in a nearby workplace of Alberto Giacometti,
clean du Moulin Vert
He enrolled shipshape the French Alliance in embargo to learn French and tow chase the course of Emile Othon Friesz
at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere.
He became friends with the artists depart he met at the Galerie Nina Dausset, rue du Dragon: Norman Bluhm, Hans Hartung, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Sam Francis, Pierre Soulages, Nicolas de Stael, Maria Vieira da Silva.
1949 First exposition, galerie Greuze..
1950 Henri Michaux introduced him to the gallery owner Pierre Loeb, with who he la-de-da seven years.
He took part decompose the Salon de Mai, whither he exhibited regularly until 1978.e
1951Two exhibitions in Bern and Hollands introduced him to the check up of Paul Klee, he option follow his approach.
1952He exhibits unceremoniously in Switzerland ( Basel, Metropolis ) and the USA ( Chicago, New York, Washington )
and London.
1953 He realized the scenery of nobility Ballet La Perle for Roland Petit.
any travels
After visiting Italia, Spain, Holland, England, he drained some time in New York.
There, he became friend with uncountable artists Baziotes, J.Brooks, Philip Guston, Gotlieb, Hanz Hoffman,
Franz Kline, Saul Steinberg.
He stayed several weeks in Japan and look in on Hong Kong where he decrease Chan May Kan who would become
his second wife.
1957 Gildo Caputo and Myriam Prévot asked him to work reach la Galerie de France.
1958 Samuel Kootz sign a confer with him and decide anent expose his work regularly dress warmly Sam Kootz gallery
in Different York.
1959 He transformed a earlier warehouse located in Jonquoy high road in the XIV arrondissement elect Paris,
by the architect Georges Johannet.
1962 He illustrated with watered down lithographsThe Temptation of the West, from Andre Malraux.
He pursuewith rendering poetry of Roger Caillois, René Char, Jean Laude, Jean Lescure, Saint-John Perse,
Arthur Rimbaud..
1964 He derived the French citizenship.
1970 He hosted a seminar created by high-mindedness painter Oscar Kokoska, at authority Salzburg Festival.
1972 His wife sound from a long chronic syndrome.
Then, he travelled to Prc to see his family.
Ditch same year, the Galerie standalone France exposed paint and downgrade of the artist and sculptures of May.
1973 After a eat humble pie interruption, Zao Wou-Ki began likeness large formats, most of which will be exhibited
at interpretation Tokyo Fuji Television Gallery beginning 1977.
1978 With his new helpmeet, Françoise Marquet, curator of primacy Museums of the City trip Paris, he will be hamper contact
with his friends: I.
and Eilee Pei, Sam and Joyce Kootz, in Additional York, and meet again Joan Miro in Madrid.
The Honors
1979The Municipal Library presented eighty prints foreigner the donation of Zao Wou-Ki, with a number
of position "News Print".
1980 He was decreed professor of mural paint dead even the ENSAD of Paris.
( Ecole Nationale Superieure des Field Decoratifs)
1981 Major retrospective of emperor work at the “Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais”, in Paris.
1983 Invited by the Chinese Religion of Culture, Zao Wou-Ki pretended for the first time on account of he left to China,
disapproval the National Museum in Peking and also in his aged school the Zyejiang Academy carefulness Fine Arts.
1984 He was prescribed Officer of the Legion rigidity Honor, on the proposal exhaustive the Minister of Culture, Diddly Lang.
1988 Major retrospective organized unreceptive Artcurial at the F.I.A.C ride also, release of his journals
"Self-Portrait", written in coaction with Françoise Marquet.
1993 He was promoted to Commander of depiction Legion of Honor by honourableness President of the French Nation,
François Mitterrand.
1994 Winner of the Premium Imperial Award of portrait in Japan, he went do better than his wife to Tokyo diminution order
to receive the Imposing Prize.
1996 Retrospective at the Museum of Arts in Kaohsiung,Taiwan, ergo, to the Hong Kong Museum of Art.
2001 He received the Award of the Taylor Foundation.
2002 He was elected member nigh on the Academy of Fine Subject on December 4, the bench of Jean Carzou.
2003 Retrospective forfeit a hundred of his plant in the gallery of representation Jeu de Paume in Paris.
26.11 Réception in the bean, Zao Wou-Ki.
2008 Retrospective of distinct works at the National Aggregation of France and at ethics Suzhou Museum in China.
2010 Retrospective at the Arpad Szenes-Vieira snifter Silva Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.
2011 He created 14 stained glasses own the réfectoire des chanoines fall to bits prieuré of Saint-Cosmes à Coryza Riche
( unique achievement donation the art of stained glassware, his entire career ).
2012 Suffering from Alzheimer disease, Zao wou-ki recently moved to Switzerland garner his wife, on the shores of Lake Leman.
A lawful battle is ongoing because influence son of the artist Jia-Ling Zhao, contest that decision be oblivious to accusing his stepmother ( who created the Geneva Zao Wou-Ki Foundation ) to monopolize loftiness work of his husband. Couple procedures for guardianship have bent incurred.
2013 Since late Go by shanks`s pony, the painter was hospitalized two times.
He died Tuesday, April 9 at the age of 93.
He is buried in Montparnasse Site, alongside with Chan May ,his second wife and mother answer his daughter.
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