Liu Danzhai was born in Wenzhou,
Zhejiang Province,
in 1931. When he was only 10 years old, he had his first exhibition in
Wenzhou. Because he was from a poor family, he could only draw in his
spare time, finding inspiration in portraits from the Han and Tang
dynasties, landscapes from the Song and Yuan and works from the
Qing-era artist Bada Shanren. In 1951, he went to work for the Great
China Poster Publishing House in Shanghai, where he specialized in
murals and hanging charts. Later, he worked for the Shanghai People's
Fine Arts Publishing House, and took up teaching at the Shanghai
Chinese Painting Academy and the Art Department of the Shanghai Normal
University.
Liu specialties are Chinese painting, New Year pictures
and cartoon strips.
Sources:
Beijing
yuyan xueyuan Zhongguo yishujia cidian bianweihui,
Zhongguo yishujia cidian --Xiandai di'er fence (Changsha:
Hunan renmin chubanshe, 1981) [in Chinese]
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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