Xu Beihong Memorial

Xu Beihong Memorial

There are two Xu Beihong Memorial Halls: one is located at 53 Xinjiekou North Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, and the other is located in Yixing Yiyuan. Xu Beihong Memorial Hall in Beijing was founded in 1954. It is the first individual artist memorial hall built by the Chinese government on the basis of Xu Beihong's former residence. The museum was originally located at No. 16, dongshulu street, Dongcheng District, Beijing. Premier Zhou Enlai wrote a plaque of "Beihong's former residence". After the Cultural Revolution began in 1966, the original memorial hall was demolished. In 1973, Premier Zhou directed the reconstruction of the new museum. Xu Beihong Memorial Hall, Yixing, opened on October 26, 1988.

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Xu Beihong (1895-1953) is a great master of Chinese art and an outstanding art educator, known as "father of modern Chinese painting" and "saint of modern Chinese painting"

. In the first half of the 20th century, when Chinese art entered the modern era, Xu Beihong was undoubtedly an important figure in the art world. In order to reverse the decadent trend of plagiarism, imitation and lack of life atmosphere in Chinese painting, he was well versed in Chinese and western, and integrated the Western exquisite realistic skills into Chinese painting, opening up a new broad world for the innovation and development of traditional art. Because of his outstanding achievements in painting theory and practice and his great contribution to art education, he was praised as "the father of modern Chinese painting" by international critics.

Chronology

In 1895, Xu Beihong was born in qitingqiao Town, Yixing County, Jiangsu Province, which is famous for its rich production of scholars and talents. His father Xu Dazhang is a famous local painter. He is good at poetry, calligraphy, seal cutting, especially painting. Xu Beihong studied poetry, calligraphy, painting and printing with his father since he was young, which laid a solid foundation of traditional culture. Xu Beihong, 17, is a well-known painter in Yixing. She works as a picture teacher in Yixing women's normal school, Pengcheng middle school and Shiqi primary school.

From January 1933 to August 1934, invited by European countries, he successively went to France, Belgium, Italy, Germany and the Soviet Union to hold Chinese art exhibitions and individual art exhibitions, which made a sensation in the international painting world.

In the spring of 1940, at the invitation of Tagore, a great Indian poet, he went to the International University of India to give lectures, and successively held art exhibitions in St. tinichtan and Calcutta. Then he went to Darjeeling to create the traditional Chinese painting Yugong Yishan.

In 1951, Xu Beihong went to Shandong daoshu Zhengyi water conservancy project site to experience life and painted many portraits of migrant workers. Prepare to create a huge oil painting "contemporary new Yugong". During the composition, he suffered from cerebral hemorrhage and hemiplegia.

In 1953, Xu Beihong Chien was able to get up and take action. On September 23, the second National Congress of literary and art workers opened. He served as executive chairman and presided over the meeting. That night, his cerebral hemorrhage recurred. Unfortunately, he died on September 26 at the age of 58.

Venue introduction

Beijing Museum Xu Beihong Memorial Hall is a memorial hall of Chinese celebrities. There are Xu Beihong Memorial Hall in Beijing and Xu Beihong Memorial Hall in Yixing. The Beijing memorial hall is located in the North Street of Xinjiekou, Xicheng, Beijing. It was built in 1954 in the painter's former residence, demolished in 1966, and rebuilt in 1973. In 1982, the new museum was completed. It was officially opened in January 1983. There are 7 exhibition rooms. It was demolished in 2013 and is being rebuilt.

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On the day of Xu Beihong's death in 1953, Xu's wife Liao Jingwen donated her former residence at No. 16, dongshoulu street, Dongcheng District to the state. In 1954, the "Xu Beihong Memorial Hall" based on the former residence was established, which is the first personal Memorial Hall for artists in New China. Guo Moruo wrote the name of "Xu Beihong Memorial Hall" in his own handwriting. In 1966, the Beijing subway began to be built, and the Xu Beihong Memorial, which was just on the subway line, was forced to be demolished. In 1973, under the instruction of Premier Zhou's "reconstruction of Xu Beihong Memorial Hall", the new hall was opened to the public in 1983 after more than ten years of construction. Located at 53 North Street, Xinjiekou, the new museum has seven exhibition halls, displaying Mr. Xu Beihong's oil paintings, traditional Chinese paintings, sketches and calligraphy.

Historical evolution

In 1954, Xu Beihong Memorial Hall was founded, which has been 50 years. In the 21st century, with the great development of the museum industry, Xu Beihong Memorial Hall is facing an important choice in what direction it should develop in the new historical period. As a public institution, museums should carry out in-depth reform in personnel system, distribution system and organization adjustment.

Xu Beihong once lived in an elegant courtyard at 16 dongshoulu street, Dongcheng District, Beijing. In 1953, on the day of Xu Beihong's death, Ms. Liao Jingwen and her family donated all the art works left by Xu Beihong to the state; Premier Zhou Enlai wrote a plaque for "Beihong's former residence". In 1954, the government established "Xu Beihong Memorial Hall" based on "Beihong's former residence", which was the first personal Memorial Hall for artists established at the beginning of the people's Republic of China. Guo Moruo wrote the name of "Xu Beihong Memorial Hall" in his own handwriting. The curator was Wu Zuoren, then president of the Central Academy of fine arts. In 1957, Ms. Liao Jingwen has been the curator ever since.

geographical position

The new museum, built in 1982, is located at No. 53, Xinjiekou North Street, Xicheng District, with a total floor area of 3900 square meters and a building area of 4600 square meters. The main building is a two-story gray exhibition building, with a prelude hall and seven exhibition rooms. The prelude hall displays Xu Beihong's self portrait, huge photos of Xu Beihong's paintings and Exhibition preface. The first, second and seventh exhibition rooms display Xu Beihong's representative works of Chinese painting in various periods. The fifth exhibition room displays Xu Beihong's oil paintings, the sixth exhibition room displays Xu Beihong's sketches, and the fourth exhibition room is Xu Beihong's life Memorial Exhibition Room, which shows young Xu Beihong's difficult journey from poor countryside to the world, as well as the restoration and precious relics of his living studio. The new museum opened to the public in January 1983 and receives more than 10000 visitors every year.

In addition to the exhibition hall, in order to better preserve Mr. Xu Beihong's posthumous works, as well as his life-long collection of famous calligraphers and paintings, tens of thousands of books, materials and monuments, a modern gallery of paintings has also been built.

Exhibition hall setting

The first, second and seventh exhibition rooms display Xu Beihong's representative works of Chinese painting in various periods. Among them, there are huge works such as jiufanggao, Yugong moving mountains, BA renjishui, Guoshang, boatman, Mountain Ghost, poor woman, leaning on bamboo at dusk, galloping horse, horses, shepherd boy and cattle, niuyu, spring rain on Lijiang River, bamboo, flying eagle, goose, morning song, headwind and crowing of wind and rain.

In the second and seventh exhibition rooms, 101 sketches are displayed, ranging from the body work of the painter in the early years in the French National Academy of fine arts and the studio of Montparnasse in Paris to the portraits of the late model workers and famous scholars, as well as the Ganges castle, the Himalayan forest, the Gandhi statue, the boatman of Singapore, the Nepalese girl and the middle of the Jiming temple road.

The third and fifth exhibition rooms display oil paintings, including Tian Heng 500 scholars, ginkgo tree, moon night, Xiao Sheng, Chen San's original image, Niu, Guilin landscape and Himalayas.

The fourth exhibition room introduces Xu Beihong's poor family, his childhood fantasy, his life-long creation, teaching and social activities, as well as his art exhibitions all over the world. In the restoration room of the studio and living room of that year, his brushes, drawing boards and pigments are displayed. The four treasures of the study he used in his life are displayed on the painting case, and his last unfinished work Lu Xun and Qu Qiubai is placed on the easel. On the wall of the room are hung photos of his teacher and famous French painter Dayan, his group photo with his good friend Tagore, the poet of India, his group photo with his wife a week before his death, and his last work of art, the wisteria Kingfisher by Ren Bonian.

Collection works

The museum now has 1286 pieces of Xu Beihong's traditional Chinese painting, oil painting, sketch, watercolor, powder painting and calligraphy works, 1134 pieces of calligraphy and painting of Tang, song, yuan, Ming, Qing and modern masters, and about 10000 pieces of Chinese and foreign art books, steles, picture books and pictures. Among them, the paintings of Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty, Wang Youjun and Jinnong are rare.

Xu's works have been exhibited in New Delhi, Calcutta, Victoria, Toronto, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Osaka and Singapore.

Xu Beihong Memorial Hall will be open to the public free of charge from March 28, 2008. The maximum number of visitors per day is set, and the method of "free and no free tickets" is adopted. Visitors need to make an appointment by telephone or Internet in advance, and collect tickets in front of the Museum with the appointment certificate when visiting. In addition, temporary exhibitions and special exhibitions held by the museum after free of charge need to purchase separate tickets according to the regulations. Some of them are not free of charge Fees will also be charged for film and television projection, audio guide rental and other items of the museum.

Follow up construction

After Xu Beihong Memorial was forced to be demolished, Premier Zhou instructed to "rebuild Xu Beihong Memorial". According to the prime minister's instructions, after several twists and turns, the new museum was funded by Beijing Municipal Finance, designed by Beijing Design Institute and undertaken by Beijing Fifth construction engineering team. After more than ten years, the new museum was officially opened to the public in January 1983. New museum

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