Hou Yimin (1930), Gaoyang, Hebei Province, belongs to the Mongol minority.
He enrolled in the National Beiping Arts College in 1946, where he
joined the underground Communist Party cell. He graduated from the Oil
Painting Research Class of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, where he
studied under the Soviet painter Konstantin Maksimov, in 1957. He is a professor
in the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and an expert in oil painting,
frescoe, and paper-cuts.
Hou is married with the designer Deng Shu. Together with her and Jin Shangyi and others, he collaborated on the poster above.
Aside from painting oils and designing posters, Hou
has also been involved in designing the motives for the Chinese
currency. He painted the well-known portrait of a steelworker which
adorned the 5-yuan note of the set that went into ciculation in 1958,
and took part in the design work for the currency set that was used
from the 1980s onwards.
Sources:
Important Art of New China 1949-1979 (China Guardian Auction Catalogue 1996, Beijing)
Julia F. Andrews, Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China 1949-1979 (Berkeley, etc.: University of California Press, 1994)
Chen Lusheng, Xin Zhongguo meishu tushi—1949-1966 [The Art History of the People's Republic of China—1949-1966] (Beijing: Zhongguo qingnian chubanshe, 2000) [in Chinese]
John Pomfret, "Currency Events: A Great Leap Backward?" Washington Post Foreign Service, 20 January 2002
Michael Sullivan, Modern Chinese Artists -- A Biographical Dictionary (Berkeley, etc:
University of California Press, 2006)
Zhongguo meishuguan (ed.), 中国美术年鉴 1949-1989 (Guilin: Guangxi meishu chubanshe, 1993)
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