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Qi Baishi ( Chinese 齐白石 / 齊白石 , Pinyin Qí Báishí , W.-G. Ch'i Pai-shih ; pseudonyms: Qí Huáng (齐 璜 / 齊 璜), Qí Wèiqīng (齐 渭 清 / 齊 渭 清), Tschi Pai-schi and Chi Po-shih; * 22 days of the 11th month of the year Tongzhi 2, so on 1. January 1864 in Xiangtan , Province of Hunan , Imperial China ; † 16th September 1957 in Beijing , people's Republic of China ) was a Chinese painter of Modern .
Life
Born the son of a farmer, Qi Baishi became a carpenter at the age of 14. At the age of 20 he borrowed a book on the art of painting and began to paint. He began his career as a painter of portraits and popular depictions in his homeland. It was not until he was 40 years old that he made a tour of China to see famous landscapes in Hubei , Shaanxi , Hebei , Jiangxi , Guangdong and Guangxi . In 1917 he settled in Beijing and achieved great fame there in old age: in 1953 he was elected the first president of the Chinese Artists' Association and was elected to the National People's Congress. In 1955 he was awarded the International Peace Prize of the World Peace Council for 1950.
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Qi Baishi took over elements of traditional scholarly painting, but developed the technique considerably. His Xieyi-style pictures are characterized by simple structures and quick, skilful brushstrokes.
Qi's preferred subjects include rural scenes, farm implements, but above all particularly lifelike depictions of small animals such as crabs , crabs and tadpoles , mice , birds and insects, as well as plants such as peonies , lotus, pumpkins and bananas . Human figures, however, often appear awkward and naive in his pictures. Some pictures also have humorous traits.
An ink drawing by Qi Bashi depicting an eagle on a pine trunk was bought by an unknown person at an auction in Beijing in 2011 at a price of 425.5 million yuan (approx. 65.5 million dollars ).
See also
- Chinese painting
- Works by Qi Baishi are in the Guangzhou Museum of Art
Web links
- Literature by and about Qi Baishi in the catalog of the German National Library
- The End of Scholarly Painting - Using Wu Changshuo and Qi Baishi as examples
- Home of Qi Baishi ( Memento from April 22, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- Qi Baishi's artwork
- About.com via Qi Baishi
- Qi Baishi in Google Arts & Culture
Individual evidence
- ↑ popular inscription, e.g. B. Edition in the series Artists of the Present, 6th ed. Dt. Academy of Arts, Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1958
- ^ Transcription in the edition of the Rong Bao-Zhai publishing house, Beijing 1952
- ↑ Records with charm in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on August 7, 2011, page 47
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Qi, Baishi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ch'i Pai-shih; Chi Po-shih; Tschi Pai-schi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Xiangtan , Hunan Province , Chinese Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 16, 1957 |
| Place of death | Beijing , People's Republic of China |