Zao Wou-Ki
13 February 1920 – 9 April 2013
Zao Wou-Ki was a Chinese-French painter who combined training in Chinese ink painting with the language of postwar European abstraction. He moved from Hangzhou to Paris in 1948, became a French citizen in 1964, and was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, becoming one of the most widely exhibited painters of the School of Paris.
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Life events
Born into a family from Nantong; he grew up in Jiangsu province.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgTrained in both Chinese and Western painting, later teaching at the same school.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgSettled in Montparnasse, where his neighbours included Alberto Giacometti.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShowed at a Paris gallery a year after arriving in France.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgEncountered Abstract Expressionist painting in New York, which affected the scale of his work.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis third wife, a curator, whom he married in Paris.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgReceived the Japan Art Association's international prize.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgJoined the French academy's painting section.
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