Qian Shaowu

• Qian Shaowu, a sculptor, painter and calligrapher, was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu. He graduated from the Sclupture Department of the Cental Academy of Fine Arts in 1951 and stayed at the school to teach. In 1953, he went to the Soviet Union to study and entered the Sculpture Department of the Repin Academy of Fine Arts in Leningrad. After returning to China in 1959, he continued to teach at the Central Academy of Fine Arts.