Zhu Bingren
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnic group, born in November 1944, a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. A national representative bearer of Copper Carving Craftsmanship, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. Over several decades he has assiduously studied the craft handed down in his family and actively explored modern technology, developing sixty-two national patents, among them multi-layered forged and engraved copper relief, multiple-etching imitation cast copper, purple-gold engraved copper carving and a high-contrast ground-flower process. He pioneered the art of molten copper, and his works strike the eye as entirely new. He has rebuilt or undertaken the construction of more than a hundred copper buildings or copper decorations, including the Leifeng Pagoda, the Lingyin Copper Hall, the Golden Summit of Mount Emei and the Brahma Palace at Wuxi. His works are held in the National Museum of China, the Great Hall of the People, the Palace Museum, the building of the Central Organization Department, the Xuanzang Memorial Hall in India and the University of California in the United States, among other institutions. In 2008, together with his son Zhu Junmin, a Zhejiang master of arts and crafts, he founded the brand Zhu Bingren Tong (Zhu Bingren Copper), devoted to letting copper culture coexist with people's ways of life.
Honors & Recognition
He is a Master of Chinese Arts and Crafts, the fourth-generation transmitter of Zhu family copper art, a research fellow of the Chinese National Academy of Arts, a member of the Xiling Seal Art Society and a recipient of the National May 1st Labor Medal.
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