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Wang RENFENG  -  born 1918      Co-founder of modern Chinese woodblock movement

Wang Renfeng

Wang Renfeng born 1918

Wang Renfeng is one of the co-founders and mentors of the modern woodblock movement that started in the 1930s in China. In 1936 he began to make his first woodblock carvings under the influence of Lu Xun. During the 1950s Wang Renfeng was transferred to Bejing, where he was active in the Association for Culture and Literature. In 1980 he was nominated deputy secretary of the Chinese Graphic Art Association. In the same year he was appointed as a permanent staff painter of Bejing Art Academy. Wang Renfeng works as a painter, printmaker, calligraphist and as a writer.
Resumé Wang Renfeng

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Literature sources used for artist biographies:

• Merritt, Helen and Yamada, Nanako, "Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints 1900-1975", University of Hawaii Press, 1995, ISBN 0-8248-1732-X
• Lane, Richard, "Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print", Fribourg, 1978, ISBN 0-914427-54-7
• Laurance, P.Roberts, "A Dictionary of Japanese Artists", John Weatherhill Inc., New York, 1976
• Frances Blakemore "Who is Who in Modern Japanese Prints", John Weatherhill, New York and Tokyo, 1975. ISBN 0-8348-0101-9
• Annual CWAJ catalogs