Wu Fan

Place: Chongqing

Born: 1923

Death: 2015

Biography:

Wu Fan was a Chinese artist born in Chongqing, China in 1923. He studied guohua with Pan Tianshou and Li Keran and oil painting with Ni Yide. Wu Fan is most famous as a woodblock print artist, with his most famous work 'Dandelion' (1959) demonstrating his mastery of the shuiyin printing style and winning the gold prize at the Leipzig International Print Competition. Wu Fan passed away in 2015.