Chow Chung-cheng

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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

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Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Chow is the family name here, Chung-cheng is the first name.
personal data
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