Zhang Qihua (painter)

Zhang Qihua (1910-1987) was a Taiwanese painter who founded the Kaohsiung Art Research Association with Liu Chi-hsiang and others and was one of southern Taiwan's promoters of painting art.

In the seventh year of the Showa Period (1932), he returned to Kaohsiung for his first solo exhibition.

[1] After World War II, he served as a director of The Kaohsiung Third Credit Cooperative [zh] beginning in 1947, and held the position for 27 years.

In 1952, he established the Kaohsiung Art Research Association with Liu Chi-hsiang and others and later cooperated with the Tainan Fine Arts Association to organize the "Southern Exhibition [zh]".

[1] In 1954, his work Salted Fish was selected first in the Chairman's Award of the Provincial Exhibition.