Qin Dahu - 秦大虎

"Qin Dahu,Born in Penglai, Shandong Province, Qin Dahu enrolled in the Middle School of China Fine Arts Academy in 1956. In the two following years, he studied in the Oil Painting Department of the China Fine Arts Academy. Aside from being a professional artist who receives government allowance, he is also professor at the China Fine Arts Academy, a director of the Oil Painting Department and vice chairman of the Oil Painter's Association. In 1964, his work name‘Growing up in the War’ (which has since been collected by the China Fine Arts Museum) was issued and published in twenty magazines nationally. 

The pinnacle of his career was between 1974 and 1983, during which time, he painted, among others‘Tianxi Sister in Law’and‘The Older’. In 1982, Lu Tiao was selected for the Paris Salon. In 1989, he went to America and signed for limited press works named‘Dragon, Tiger and Horse’. He visited Australia and held group exhibitions together with Xiao Feng in 1994, receiving the award of excellence for ‘Dragon Flying and Leaping Lion’."