Xi Dejin

Xi Dejin ( Chinese  席 德 進 , Pinyin Xí Déjìn ; * 1923 ; † 1981 ) was a Chinese painter. He was born in 1923 in a small village on the upper reaches of the Jialing River into a wealthy farming family. In 1931 he began his lifelong career as a painter under the care of a local painter. In 1933 his family moved to a county town in southern Sichuan where he could go to elementary school. During the civil war riots, he was a student at Tianfu Secondary School, and later at Fucheng Secondary School . At the College of Art and Technology in Chengdu he came into contact with the painter Pang Xunqin, who had been a guest student in France, and got to know paintings by Matisse and Picasso . In 1948 he went to Taiwan with the Guomindang government . Today he is considered one of the most important painters in Taiwan.

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Xi is the family name here, Dejin is the first name.