Wu Bin

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Wu Bin , also called Wu Pin (* 1545 or 1568 or 1573 in Putian , Fujian Province ; † 1620s ; [exact dates are not known]) was a Chinese landscape painter who worked around the turn of the 16th to the 17th century . He was also called "Wenzhong" , his nickname was "Zhiyin Toutuo" , which means something like " mendicant monk in the temple, hidden under branches" .

Live and act

Under Emperor Wanli (1572 to 1620) from the Ming dynasty , he was appointed to the capital Nanjing as a civil servant with the title "Imperial Secretary for Public Works", where he became court painter. His painting skills were also valued by private individuals and Buddhist temples. His style of landscape painting and portraits was fundamentally different from the petrified painting school that was predominant at the time. In later years he became a follower of Chan Buddhism , Zen Buddhism . He stayed on Qixia Shan (Qixia Mountain) 20 km northeast of Nanjing. There he portrayed monks and priests in their activities as magicians / magicians. These magical practices were and are still sought by believers today. Wu Bin created the portraits with a lot of irony and sarcasm.

The End

In the 1620s, Wu Bin was accused of criticizing the notorious eunuch Wei Zhongxian (1568-1628). He was captured. After that there is no longer any trace of him.

Works

  • Portrait of the Buddha , mural, ink and watercolor on silk, 146.2 × 76.3 cm, Beijing Palace Museum .
  • 16 Luohan , picture scroll, ink and watercolor on paper, 32 × 414.3 cm. In the possession of the Metropolitan Museum , New York , USA since 1986 .
  • In November 2009 the collector Liu Yiqian from Shanghai acquired the 571 cm long painting "Eighteen Arhats" at an auction in Beijing for a gross price of 169.1 million yuan , or around 24.8 million US dollars. The picture belonged to Emperor Qianlong (1711 to 1799) almost 300 years ago . He processed it through a calligraphic description of each individual arhat .
  • 500 Arhat , ink and watercolor on paper, Cleveland Museum of Art .
  • Landscape (1610), ink and watercolor on paper, Honolulu Academy of Arts .
  • Ten Views of a Stone (1610).

literature

  • Katherine Persis Burnett: The Landscapes of Wu Bin (c1543 - c1626) and a Seventeenth-Century Discourse of Originality . University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; also as a digitized version.

Web links

Commons : Wu Bin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ artnet.de: Wu Bin - Past Auction Results
  2. ↑ china-on-site.com: Painting - Wu Bin.
  3. ↑ Rose-Maria Gropp: An almost normal year: good prices and a super auction. FAZ , December 30, 2009, archived from the original on June 21, 2015 .;
  4. ↑ Philip origin: Herzog & de Meuron - Natural history.
personal data
SURNAME Wu Bin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wu Pin; Wenzhong; Zhiyin Toutuo (nickname); Mendicant monk in the temple, hidden under branches (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1545 or 1568 or 1573
PLACE OF BIRTH Putian , Fujian Province
DATE OF DEATH between 1620 and 1629