Prize of Hồ Chí Minh for Literature and Art, stage I – Painter, sculptor Diệp Minh Châu

DIỆP MINH CHÂU (1919 – 2002)

Painter – sculptor Diệp Minh Châu was awarded Hồ Chí Minh Prize for Literature and Arts, Stage I, 1996 by the State for the works: President Hồ Chí Minh and Children of the North, the Central and the South (1947); The scent of lotus (1957), Võ Thị Sáu (1958), Uncle Hồ by the stream of Lenin (1980), Uncle Hồ and children (1993).

Artist Diệp Minh Châu (1919 – 2002)

Biography:

• Artist Diệp Minh Châu was born in 1919, February 10
• Hometown: Nhơn Thạnh, Giồng Trôm, Bến Tre
• 1940 – 1943: Studied at Indochina Fine Arts College, class XIV (1941 – 1945)
• 1945: Participate in seizing power in Bến Tre town
• 1946: Joined the Party and became head of the anti-corruption committee in Châu Thành district, Bến Tre
• 1946 – 1947: Head of the front reportage department and head of the painting department of inter-zone 8, went on field trips with the National Guard
• 1947 – 1949: Head of the Painting Department of the Southern Resistance Culture Institute
• 3 – 7/1951: Being close to Uncle Hồ Chí Minh, was able to draw pictures of Uncle Hồ in Việt Bắc
• 1951 – 1955: Studied painting, graduated from Fine Arts Academy of Czechoslovakia
• 1957 – 1964: Lecturer in Việt Nam Fine Arts College
• 1962 – 1975: Head of Sculpture – Việt Nam Fine Arts Association
• 1978 – 1980: Member of the 7^th National Assembly, Vice Chairman of Hồ Chí Minh City Literature and Arts Association, General Secretary of Hồ Chí Minh City Fine Arts Association
• He died in 2002, July 12 in Hồ Chí Minh City
• The name of painter and sculptor Diệp Minh Châu was given to a high school in his hometown Bến Tre and streets in Hồ Chí Minh City and Đà Nẵng

Celebrated:

• Order of Resistance war, Second class
• Order of Independence, Third class
• Order of the Resistance war against France, First class
• First prize in sculpture at National Fine Arts Exhibition in 1958 for the statue of Võ Thị Sáu
• First prize in sculpture at National Fine Arts Exhibition in 1980 for the work Uncle Hồ by the stream of Lenin

President Hồ Chí Minh and Children of the North, the Central and the South. 1947. Blood on silk. Collection of National Museum of History

 

The scent of lotus. 1957. 72 cm

 

Uncle Hồ by the stream of Lenin. 1980. Plaster. 108 × 82 × 72 cm. Collection of Việt Nam Fine Arts Museum

 

Uncle Hồ and children. 1993. Bronze. H 400 cm