Lee Tze-fan


Lee Tze-fan was a Taiwanese painter and art teacher. He studied at Taihoku Normal School when he was 14 years old. His painting career began in 1924 when he was introduced to art by his teacher Kinichiro Ishikawa.

Biography

Lee Tze-fan was of the first generation of Hoklo Taiwanese artists who created Western-style painting. His works were performed in the fusion of art styles, between social realism, expressionism and abstractionism.
For a long time he was a professor in National Taiwan Normal University, having many students, mostly from the counties of Hsinchu, Taoyuan, and Miaoli.
Three of his sons Yuan-Chuan Lee, Yuan T. Lee, and Yuan-Pern Lee were elected to membership of Academia Sinica.