Artist Keywords

Fengmian Lin

Fengmian Lin (1900 - 1991) was active/lived in China, Germany, United Kingdom.  Fengmian Lin is known for Modernist figure, landscape and genre paintings, drawings, teaching.

Lin Fengmian, originally named Lin Fengming, was a Chinese painter and is considered a pioneer of modern Chinese painting for blending Chinese and Western painting styles.  He was also an important innovator in the area of Chinese art education.

Born in Mei County, Guangdong, like many of his peers, Lin partipicated in the "Diligent Work and Economical Study", Jinggong Jianxue program, a work-study program in China during that time.  Similar to his compatriot Xu Beihong, Lin spent the early years of his career in Europe, moving to France in 1920 and studying painting in France.

In 1923, he later moved to Berlin, Germany.  In 1925 he returned to China, where he became the principal of the Beiping State Vocational Art School.  In 1928, with encouragement from Cai Yuanpei, he helped found the antecedent of the China Academy of Art, becoming its first principal.

Lin's works and life were met with great tragedy.  While many of his early works w   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8624 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 2431 auction lots for Fengmian Lin (of which 1867 auction records sold and 3 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 0 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 3 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Fengmian Lin as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Fengmian Lin in 0 of its research Essays. Fengmian Lin has 29 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Fengmian Lin available:    Guanzhong Wu,  Chang Yu Sanyu,  Shifa Cheng,  Yifei Chen,  Vicente S Manansala,  Chunya Zhou,  Mai Trung Thu,  Ru Pu,  Li Keran,  Shao'ang Zhao,  Teh-Chun Chu,  Daqian Zhang,  Beihong Xu,  Xiaogang Zhang,  Soo Pieng Cheong,  Yan Cheng Wang,  Feng Qin,  Kuosung Liu,  Kusama Affandi,  Phan Chanh Nguyen,  Dayu Wu,  Chin Hsiao,  Ming Ju,  Fanzhi Zeng