Bùi Xuân Phái

Bùi Xuân Phái ( September 1, 1920 , † June 24, 1988 ) is one of the most famous modern painters in Vietnam . He is famous for his depictions of Hanoi's Old Quarter .

Phai mainly used oil paints on canvas . However, due to the privations in the war, he also painted on other carriers and by other means. The subject of his mostly shadowy representations are the streets of Hanoi's Old Quarter in the 1950s and 60s (during the Indochina and Vietnam War ). Vietnamese modern painters such as Bùi Xuân Phái, Duong Bich Lien , Nguyen Tu Nghiem and Nguyen Sang Phai are among the country's popular figureheads today, but were considered by the communist party during the war as “not patriotic enough” and “counter-revolutionary”.

He taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hanoi, but lost his professorship because he insisted on his artistic freedom. It was only in the 1980s that he was able to exhibit his works to the public again. Phai received numerous awards in the country for his paintings before and after the Era.

Today there are a number of forgeries of his paintings in circulation.

Individual evidence

↑ Andreas Margara : The American War. Remembrance culture in Vietnam. Berlin 2012, p. 111, ISBN 978-3-940132-48-2
↑ Christopher Goscha , The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam, 2016, p. 390
↑ Nora Taylor: Pho Phai and Faux Phais: The market for fakes and the appropriation of a vietnamese national symbol . In: Ethnos , Vol. 64: 2 (1999)

personal data
SURNAME	Bùi Xuân Phái
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Vietnamese painter
DATE OF BIRTH	September 1, 1920
DATE OF DEATH	June 24, 1988

[Andreas_Margara-1] Andreas Margara : The American War. Remembrance culture in Vietnam. Berlin 2012, p. 111, ISBN 978-3-940132-48-2

[2] Christopher Goscha , The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam, 2016, p. 390

[Nora_Taylor-3] Nora Taylor: Pho Phai and Faux Phais: The market for fakes and the appropriation of a vietnamese national symbol . In: Ethnos , Vol. 64: 2 (1999)