Chu Teh-Chun — Lyrical Abstraction
2 min readSep 8, 2020
Chu Teh-Chun or Zhu Dequn (1920 –2014) was a Chinese-French abstract painter acclaimed for his pioneering style integrating traditional Chinese painting techniques with Western abstract art. Chu and his schoolmates Wu Guanzhong and Zao Wou-Ki were dubbed the “Three Musketeers” of modernist Chinese artists trained in China and France. He was the first ethnic Chinese member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts of France.
