朱德群 CHU Teh Chun (1920-2014)中國江蘇人。1941年畢業於杭州藝專且留校任職，而後受聘於南京中央大學。1949年在台北任敎於師大美術系，1955年赴巴黎深造。1958年於巴黎舉行個展後，1964年應美國匹茲堡卡內基美術博物館之邀參加國際畫展，1987年由法國文化部協辦展開亞洲巡迴展包括北京中國美術館、香港藝術中心、台北市立美術館等。1997年底榮膺法蘭西研究學院藝術院士。2006獲頒歐洲傑出人材奬。2014年3月26日在巴黎家中逝世，享年94歲。1961年朱德群獲邀參加巴黎「五月沙龍」，1997年成為世界華人兩百年來首位獲選為「法蘭西研究院美術院士」。1955年赴巴黎留學時受到Nicolas de Steal的啟迪使其創作由具象轉為抽象，至此畫作開始融入中國水墨寫意和獨特抽象畫風，恣意地在紙本上表現豪放不拘情感和對自然山水的喜愛，流暢筆觸下的非定形世界，變化萬千的構圖、蒼勁的線條、絢麗的色彩，在在都刻劃出中國人文「詩中有畫、畫中有詩」的夢幻意境。

Chu graduated from the National Academy of Arts in Hangzhou in 1941. He taught drawing at the Central University in Nanjing and the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei. In 1955, Chu moved to Paris where he held numerous solo exhibitions. In 1964, Chu was invited to show his work at the International Art Exhibition at the Carngie Institute, Pittsburgh. In 1987, Chu most touring exhibitions was organized by the French Ministry of Culture and Shown throughout Asia, incluing the Chinese Art museum in Beijing, the Hong Kong Arts Centre and the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, in 1977, Chu was honored by the Academie des Beaux-Arts de France and elected as a member of institute. On 26 March 2014, Chu Teh-Chun died in Paris at age 94. In 1961, CHU Teh Chun was invited to the Salon of May in Paris. In 1997, he became the first Asian member of Académie des Beaux-Arts. During his stay in Paris, he was inspired by Nicolas de Steal’s painting style. That was when he began to fuse the tradition Chinese colors and the freely formed abstract works in Western paintings and this fusion allowed him to express his appreciation toward the nature on the canvas. Calligraphic lines with flowing artistic structure and a wide spread of bright colors made his paintings look like dreams.The lines and colors in his work are all carefully planned and are to achieve on goal in harmony: to create the ray of light and bring out the image and the rhythm. The work “Composition No.76” was completed in 1961 and it shows nature itself is his inspiration. The deep blue color in the middle can be seen as the cosmic swirl of Chaos at the beginning of the world, full of mance and poetry.