movement death_date death_place birth_place birth_date spouse image article_title name alma_mater
chinese modernist 26 march 2014 paris , france xiao county , china 24 october 1920 tung ching-chao chutehchun.png chu teh-chun
 chu teh-chun 朱德群 china academy of art
chu teh-chun

chu teh-chun or zhu dequn -lrb- 24 october 1920 -- 26 march 2014 -rrb- was a chinese-french abstract painter acclaimed for his pioneering style integrating traditional chinese painting techniques with western abstract art .
chu and his schoolmates wu guanzhong and zao wou-ki were dubbed the `` three musketeers '' of modernist chinese artists trained in china and france .
he was the first ethnic chinese member of the académie des beaux-arts of france .
