Li Qun (1912) was born in Lingshi, Shanxi Province.
He entered the Hangzhou National Art School in 1932, and participated
in the founding of the League of Left-wing artists in 1933. In 1940, he
arrived in Yan'an,
where he took up teaching at the Lu Yi Art Academy. He was present at
the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art in 1942, where Mao set the
guidelines for art in the future People's Republic. In 1952, he moved
to Beijing, where he worked in the editorial office of the People's
Fine Arts Publishing House. He was also involved editorially with the
journal Fine Arts (美术，Mei shu). In the 1960s, he
travelled through China, making woodcuts. Since the late 1970s, he has
returned to take on various ceremonial functions in Taiyuan, Shanxi
Province.
Li is renowned for his woodcuts, and has exhibited his works extensively.
Sources:
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]
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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