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In 1943 this Chinese ink painter helped set up the Dunhuang Art Institute after copying its Buddhist wall paintings, and back in 1925 he showed 100 paintings at the Ningbo Association in Shanghai. Which 20th-century Chinese artist is being described?
Chang Dai-chien (1899-1983) was one of the most famous Chinese painters of the 20th century. The years he spent copying the ancient wall paintings in the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang deeply shaped his own art, and the Ningbo Association show helped launch his career from Shanghai.