Yu Yunjie - 俞云阶
Yu Yunjie (1917-1992) was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province. After his graduation from the Art Department of the National Central University in 1941, he taught at the National Art Training School and in the Western Art Department of the Suzhou Art Training School. From 1955-1957, he enrolled in a refresher course in the Oil Painting Department of the Central Art Academy, studying under the Soviet artist Konstantin Maksimov. He was adviser with the Shanghai Institute of Oil Painting and Plastic Arts and the Art Department of Shanghai Jiaotong University.
Yu specialized in oil painting.
Sources:
Michael Sullivan, Modern Chinese Artists -- A Biographical Dictionary (Berkeley, etc: University of California Press, 2006)
Zhongguo meishuguan (ed.), 中国美术年鉴 1949-1989 (Guilin: Guangxi meishu chubanshe, 1993)
