Chen De-wang

{{Short description|Taiwanese artist (1910–1984)}}

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| birth_date = October 22, 1910

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Chen De-wang (also known as Chen Te-wang; October 22, 1910 - December 3, 1984), a native of Taipei, Taiwan,{{Cite web |title=中华民国文化部. 迪化街一段87號店屋-文化部國家文化記憶庫 |trans-title=Ministry of Culture of the Republic of China. Shophouse No. 87, Section 1, Dihua Street-National Cultural Memory Bank of the Ministry of Culture |url=https://tcmb.culture.tw/zh-tw/detail?id=20220711000001&indexCode=BOCH_CountryCulture_12 |language=zh}} was an artist during the Taiwan under Japanese rule in Taiwan and later worked as a teacher.{{Cite web |title=陳德旺 |trans-title=Cheng Dewang |url=https://nrch.culture.tw/twpedia.aspx?id=4702 |website=國家文化資料庫}}

Life

In 1925, Chen De-wang was a student of Japanese artist Tōho Shiotsuki while studying at {{Interlanguage link|Taipei First High School|zh}}. He later went to study at Tongwen Academy in Tianjin, China,{{Cite web |title=两岸菁英文化研习活动在天津举行 |trans-title=Tongwen College |url=http://paper.people.com.cn/rmrbhwb/html/2024-08/29/content_26077514.htm |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=paper.people.com.cn |language=zh}} and returned to Taiwan in 1927 to study painting under Ishikawa Kinichirō. In 1930, he went to Tokyo, Japan for further studies and learned painting from Sōtarō Yasui. In 1938, he formed the{{Interlanguage link|Action Art Group|zh}}in Taipei, and his paintings focused on impressionism and applied art.{{Cite web |title=陳德旺 |trans-title=Chen Dewang |url=https://artemperor.tw/knowledge/1218 |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=非池中藝術網}}

After World War II, he taught art in high schools and organized many art exhibitions, mainly to cultivate art talents. He died of illness in Taipei in 1984.

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