About He Tianjian
Lived 1890 – 1977 (aged 86–87). He Tianjian was a Chinese painter.
He Tianjian (; 1891 – 2 April 1977), formerly romanized as Ho T'ien-chien, was a Chinese guohua painter and a leading member of the Shanghai School of art.
Biography He Tianjian was born He Jun (贺骏) in Wuxi, Jiangsu province in 1891. He was also known by the name He Bingnan (贺炳南). He began to paint at the age of eight. In 1911 he briefly studied at the Guomin University (国民大学) in Nanjing, but dropped out the same year and joined the Zhonghua Book Company in Shanghai as an editor for paintings. In the 1920s he taught landscape painting in Wuxi, Nanjing, and Shanghai.
He Tianjian is one of the seven artists featured in the Exhibition for Noted Painters at the China Art Museum in Shanghai.
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Chinese painter
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He Tianjian was born in 1890 in Wuxi.
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He Tianjian died on 2 April 1977 in Shanghai.
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He Tianjian was a painter.
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He Tianjian was Chinese.
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