Draft:Tang Yihe

Tang Yihe (唐一禾) was a Chinese artist.

Tang Yihe was born in 1905 in Wuchang, Hubei Province. He studied at the Wuchang College of Arts in 1922, and then transferred to the Beijing Fine Arts College in 1924. 1933, Tang Yihe, together with Chang Shuhong, Qin Xuanfu, Lv shibai, Zeng Zhushao, and Wang Linyi, initiated the establishment of the "Association of Artists Travelling to France," and graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris (Studied with Paul Albert Laurens) in the winter of 1934 and returned to China, where he served as the teaching director and head of the Western Painting Section of the Wuchang College of Arts. In 1938, because of the Japanese invasion of China war (Battle of Wuhan) Wuchang College of Arts campus destroyed in the Japanese bombing, the college westward relocation of Sichuan Jiangjin adhere to schooling. 1939, Tang Yihe was elected as the executive director of the "All-China Fine Arts Association Against the Enemy". 1940 and 1944, he was elected as the director and executive director of the "All-China Fine Arts Association". "On 24th March 1944, Tang Yiho and his elder brother Tang Yijing (headmaster of Wuchang College of Arts) went to Chongqing by boat to participate in the "All-China Art Association", and tragically killed when he turned back to save his brother in the shipwreck at the age of 39 years old.