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Dr. Ng Hong Chiok

dr.ng@t-online.de, Fax:0049-228-659148

Brassertufer1, 53111 Bonn, Germany

Gu Gan

 is now internationally recognized as the pioneer

 of the Modernist movement in calligraphic painting in China

Gu Gan (1942) whose original name is Zhang Shiqiang, is from Changsha, Hunan Province. He graduated from the middle school attached to the Central Art Academy in 1962. In 1975, he was assigned to work in the People's Literature Publishing House, where he now has a leading position within the Art Editorial office

Selected Collections
British Museum, London
Museum for Far Eastern Art, Cologne
National Fine Art Museum, Beijing
The Olenska Foundation, Geneva
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Tokyo Museum of Fine Art
Confucius Museum, China
Hamburg Institute of Fine Art
Heinrich Boell Foundation,

Engelhardt-Ng Verlag, Germany