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Filmmaker · China

Xu Xingzhi

Died in 1991

Xu Xingzhi was born in 1904, in Yangzhou in Jiangsu according to Masterworks. A graduate of the Shanghai academy of fine arts, he studied Western painting at the Tokyo school of fine arts, then in 1930 helped found the Times Society, a group of left-wing artists, and was elected first president of the League of Left-Wing Artists. A painter, he also worked for film and theatre. After 1949 he taught at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and was a member of the Chinese Artists Association. He died in 1991.

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