Lu Kunfeng

Lu Kunfeng (卢坤峰) was born in 1934 in Sishui, Shandong Province, China. He graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Zhejiang Art Academy, now known as the China Academy of Art, in 1964, and remained at the school to teach, eventually holding the rank of professor. His work specialized in flower-and-bird painting, a long-established genre within Chinese ink painting.

Over his career he held a number of institutional posts, including membership in the China Artists Association, director of the Zhejiang Artists Association, vice president of the Zhejiang Flower and Bird Painting Research Association, honorary president of the Shandong Linyi Painting Academy, director of the China Art Education Research Association, and overseas consultant to the Thai Huayu Association. These roles are documented in a single auction house biography and have not been independently corroborated across multiple sources, so they should be treated as well-sourced but not fully verified.

Lu Kunfeng died in 2018. The exact date and place of his death are not confirmed in any source available to this profile; two independent art-market references, ChinesePosters.net and MutualArt, agree on the birth and death years of 1934 and 2018 but neither provides further detail.

No signed, verifiable critical commentary about Lu Kunfeng in a major art publication could be located for this profile. His standing appears to rest chiefly on institutional recognition, including his teaching position at the China Academy of Art and his leadership roles in regional painting associations, rather than on documented critical reviews or curatorial essays in accessible sources.

Lu Kunfeng's work has circulated at auction, with MutualArt recording roughly 126 works attributed to him across its database. No source available to this profile identifies a specific all-time auction record for the artist, meaning a top sale price, work title, auction house, and sale date cannot be confirmed here. There is no evidence of a published catalogue raisonne or a formal authentication program for his work.

Public, English-language documentation of Lu Kunfeng's market is limited. No confirmed auction record, current gallery or estate representation, or museum collection holding could be verified for this profile, and the exact dates of his birth and death are not available beyond the years 1934 and 2018. Given the name's transliteration as both "Lu Kunfeng" and "卢坤峰," collectors should also confirm that any work under consideration is attributed to this specific artist and not to a different painter with a similar romanized name. Prospective buyers should rely on provenance research, and where possible, direct confirmation through Chinese-language sources, the China Academy of Art, or the artist's family, rather than treating any single online listing as definitive.