Feng Zikai

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Feng Zikai

Feng Zikai ( Chinese  豐子愷  /  丰子恺 , Pinyin Fēng Zǐkǎi ; born November 9, 1898 in Tongxiang , Zhejiang ; † September 15, 1975 ) was a Chinese art critic, painter and caricaturist.

After graduating from Hangzhou University in 1919, Feng studied music and art in Japan. In 1922 he returned to China and then worked there as a teacher in Shanghai . When he later started as editor at Kaiming-Verlag, his works - paintings, essays and caricatures - were published for the first time. After the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949 , he held a number of political posts in it.

With his works he became one of the founders of modern Chinese caricature alongside Ye Qianyu and Zhang Leping . When his popular Zikai manhua ( 子 愷 漫畫  /  子 恺 漫画 , Zǐkǎi Mànhuà  - "Zikai Comics") first appeared in the literary magazine Wenxuezhoubao ( 文學 週報  /  文学 周报 , Wénxué Zhōubào  - "weekly magazine of literature") in 1925 , his work was named , based on the Japanese word “ Manga ” ( Japanese 漫画 , kana ま ん が , comics ), “ Manhua ” ( 漫畫  /  漫画 , mànhuà  - “comics”). This term is generally used in China today for comics. From 1927 to 1973 he created the picture series Husheng Huaji ( 護 生 畫集  /  护 生 画集 , Hùshēng Huàjí ).

After his hometown was destroyed in November 1937, he began drawing anti-Japanese caricatures. Some appeared in the Kangzhan wenyi magazine of the All-China Resistance Association of Writers and Artists , which he had joined.

On June 3, 2020, an asteroid was named after him: (79811) Fengzikai .

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Individual evidence

  1. Geremie Barmé: An Artistic Exile: A Life of feng zikai (1898-1975) . P. 47.
  2. Feng Zikai 1898-1975 - Archived copy (English) ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 22, 2019
  3. Wu Dingbo, Patrick D. Murphy: Handbook of Chinese Popular Culture . P. 288.
  4. Wu Dingbo, Patrick D. Murphy: Handbook of Chinese Popular Culture . P. 291.
  5. Feng Zikai in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).Template: JPL Small-Body Database Browser / Maintenance / Alt