Huang Binhong Memorial Hall

Huang Binhong Memorial Hall

The Huang Binhong Memorial Hall is located at No. 31 Qixialing, West Lake. It was the former residence of the renowned painter Huang Binhong. He moved here in the autumn of 1948 and created numerous landscape paintings of West Lake, referring to himself as “willing to be an old painting craftsman of West Lake.” After he passed away in March 1955, his family donated over 10,000 of his works and collections to the nation. In September 1959, the former residence was converted into the National Huang Binhong Memorial Room. The memorial room is a small, standalone courtyard, square in shape, with a full-body white marble statue of Huang Binhong placed in the center of the garden, surrounded by pine, bamboo, plum, and other trees. The exhibition hall is located on the two-story building. The downstairs studio displays the painter’s rosewood drawing desk, the Four Treasures of the Study, wooden sofas, and more. The upstairs exhibition room spans 165 square meters and showcases twelve of the painter’s representative landscapes and flower-and-bird paintings. The relics exhibition room displays the painter’s chronology, publications, manuscripts, and more.

Origins of the Former Residence

In the autumn of 1948, Mr. Huang Binhong was invited by the Hangzhou National Art School to serve as a professor and moved from Beiping to Hangzhou. He initially lived in the school dormitory at No. 19 Qixialing near Yue Temple in the western part of the city. In the spring of 1952, he moved to No. 32 Qixialing.

On March 25, 1955, Mr. Huang passed away in Hangzhou due to cancer.

On March 26, a committee of 34 representatives, including Shen Yanbing, Qi Baishi, Liu Kaiqu, Lai Shaoqi, Fu Lei, Feng Zikai, Shao Peizi, Ma Yifu, and Dong Yumao, formed the “Huang Binhong Funeral Committee,” and the East China Branch of the China Artists Association issued the obituary.

On the 27th, the memorial service for Mr. Huang was held by the Zhejiang Provincial People's Government at Baoshanqiao Funeral Home in Hangzhou. Condolence telegrams were sent by Zhou Enlai, Chairman of the Second National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Vice Chairman Li Jishen, and the China Artists Association. Local Party and government leaders and figures from the art circle sent wreaths.

In March 1956, the Zhejiang Provincial People's Committee decided to designate the former residence at No. 32 Qixialing, Hangzhou, as the “Huang Binhong Memorial Room.”

Huang Binhong (January 27, 1865 – March 25, 1955), originally from She County, Huizhou, Anhui Province, was born in Jinhua, Zhejiang, and grew up in his ancestral village of Tandu, She County. His original name was Maoshi, later changed to Zhi, with the courtesy name Pucun and the art name Binhong, also using the alias Yuxiang. A modern-era painter renowned for his landscape works, he is considered a master of landscape painting. At the age of six, he copied landscape albums from the family collection by Shen Tingrui (Chuyá). He studied flower-and-bird painting under Zheng Shan and Chen Chongguang. He advanced equally in the study of tradition and field sketching. Influenced early on by the “Xin’an School of Painting,” he was known for his dry brushwork, light ink tones, and ethereal elegance, earning the title “White Binhong”... More details about Huang Binhong ++