Chow Chung-cheng
Chow Chung-cheng ( Chinese 周仲錚 / 周仲铮 , Pinyin Zhōu Zhòngzhēng , also: Li Chow Chung-cheng , Zhou Zhongzheng , born June 20, 1908 in Tianjin , Chinese Empire ; † August 30, 1996 in Bonn ) was a Chinese-German sinologist , Painter and writer .
Life
Chow Chung-cheng came from an old Chinese family of officials and scholars. At 15, she went away from home against the will of their parents, attended a secondary school and started in Beijing a university degree , which she later in Paris continued. 1935 doctorate she was the first Chinese woman at the Sorbonne a state scientific topic. She then worked as a lecturer for Sinology at the University of Leiden . Her second marriage was to the German Georg von Koeppen. After the end of the Second World War , she ran a Chinese school in Berlin .
From 1950 to 1954 Chow Chung-cheng completed an artistic training in painting at the State Art School in Hamburg with Alfred Mahlau and in Stuttgart with Willi Baumeister . From 1956 she lived with her husband in Bonn .
Chow Chung-cheng worked as a visual artist in the fields of oil painting , watercolor and graphics. In addition, from 1957 she published a series of books for children and young people in German , in which she dealt mainly with topics from her Chinese homeland.
Works
- L'examen provincial en Chine (Hiang che) sous la Dynastie des Ts'ing (de 1644 à 1911) , Paris 1935
- Kleine Sampan , Aarau [u. a.] 1957
- Ten years of happiness , Aarau [u. a.] 1960
- The King of the Tree , Reutlingen 1967
- The little colorful fish , Reutlingen 1968
- Kraniche , Bonn- Bad Godesberg 1970 (together with Ellen Schmidt-Bleibtreu)
- But a bird belongs to the sky and a fish belongs to the water , Opladen 1973
- Goldblume , slave , Opladen 1974
- It must be red, red! It has to be round, round! , Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1983
Exhibition catalogs
- Chow Chung-Cheng, Karl Godeg, Helmut Rehme: Painting , Kassel 1965
- Chow Chung-cheng , Witten 1970
- Akai, Chow, Katsu: Encounter on the Rhine , Wesel 1981
- Two Chinese painters , Cologne 1986
- Heiner Blumenthal, Andreas Kuhlmann, Martin Schwenk, Jan Verbeek, Ilse Wegmann, Chung-Cheng Chow , Bonn 1996
Web links
- Literature by and about Chow Chung-cheng in the catalog of the German National Library
- Souvenir article by Karin Hempel-Soos in the Bonner General-Anzeiger on July 14, 2008
- Memories of Chow Chung-cheng on Irene Eng's blog
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SURNAME | Chow, Chung-cheng |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 周仲錚 (Chinese); 周仲铮 (Chinese); Zhōu Zhòngzhēng; Li Chow Chung-cheng; Zhou Zhongzheng |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese-German sinologist, painter and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1908 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Tianjin , China |
DATE OF DEATH | August 30, 1996 |
Place of death | Bonn |