Tan Ting-pho | |||||||||||||||||
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Born | February 2, 1895 Kagi District, Tainan Prefecture, Fujian-Taiwan Province, Qing dynasty (modern-day Chiayi, Taiwan) |
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Died |
March 25, 1947 (aged 52) Chiayi, Taiwan |
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Nationality | Taiwanese (Hoklo) | ||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Taiwan Governor-General's National Language School, Tokyo School of Fine Arts, Hongo Painting Institute | ||||||||||||||||
Occupation | Painter and politician | ||||||||||||||||
Known for | Founder of Chi-Hsing Painting Society, Tai-Yang Art Society, Chih-Yang Western Painting Society | ||||||||||||||||
Notable work | Street of Chiayi (嘉義の町中?, alt. 嘉義街外) | ||||||||||||||||
Television | Is a character in La Grande Chaumiere Violette 紫色大稻埕 (2016 TV series) | ||||||||||||||||
Awards | Outside Chiayi Street selected for the 7th Imperial Art Exhibition, the first time a Taiwanese artist's work could be displayed at the exhibition. | ||||||||||||||||
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Tan Ting-pho | |||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 陳澄波 | ||||||||||
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Standard Mandarin | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Chén Chéngbō |
Southern Min | |
Hokkien POJ | Tân Têng-pho |
Tan Ting-pho (Chinese: 陳澄波; pinyin: Chén Chéngbō; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Têng-pho; February 2, 1895 – March 25, 1947), was a well-known Taiwanese painter. In 1926, his oil painting Street of Chiayi was featured in the seventh Empire Art Exhibition in Japan, which was the first time a Taiwanese artist's work could be displayed at the exhibition. Tan devoted his life to education and creation, and was greatly concerned about the development of humanist culture in Taiwan. He was not only devoted to the improvement of his own painting, but also to the promotion of the aesthetic education of the Taiwanese people. He was murdered as a result of the February 28 Incident, a 1947 popular uprising in Taiwan which was brutally repressed by the Kuomintang (KMT).
Tan was born in Kagi (Chiayi), Qing Taiwan, into a poor family that could not invest in his artist talents. After attending college in Taihoku (Taipei), he returned to his hometown to work as a teacher, a job he held for seven years. Tan then earned enough money to attend the Tokyo University of the Arts, and graduated in 1929. Upon graduation, he moved to Shanghai for four years, where he taught art. Tan returned to Kagi in 1933, and joined the city's Preparatory Committee to Welcome the National Government in 1945. In 1946, Tan was elected as a member of the Chiayi City Council and joined the Kuomintang.
He enrolled in the Taiwan Governor-General's National Language School (臺灣總督府國語學校) in 1913, where he studied Western-style watercolor painting under Ishikawa Kinichiro. In 1924, he went to mainland Japan to receive formal academic training in art under Japanese oil painter Tanabe Itaru at the Normal Education Division in Painting of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (today's Tokyo University of the Arts). Tan also studied privately under Japanese luminarist Okada Saburosuke at his Hongō Painting Institute.