Li Jinyuan

Who is Li Jinyuan?

Li Jinyuan is a Chinese painter born in Chengdu in 1945. He specializes in landscapes, using traditional techniques of Chinese ink-wash painting, but he has also devoted much time to oil paintings. He is a retired professor of the Department of Fine Arts, Sichuan Normal University and has been invited to teach and paint in Japan, France, Thailand and Germany. In 2007 he painted The Lenten Veil for the German Catholic charity Misereor.

He has exhibited several times with the French Jesuit Benoît Vermander, including in the Réfectoire des Jacobins, the European Parliament, the National Gallery and the Sichuan Gallery.

In 1995-1996, at the invitation of the Regional Council, he conducted a series of paintings of landscapes of the Midi-Pyrenees region. A number of these paintings were reassembled in the Veilleur De Jour collection, published in Toulouse in 1996.

In 2000-2001, for the four hundredth anniversary of the presentation of the missionary Matteo Ricci to the Chinese Emperor, Li Jinyuan departed from Macerata, to follow the trail to Beijing taken by the Italian Jesuit. The resulting series of paintings inspired an exhibition at Sophia University in Tokyo in December 2001.