Ink drawing, 77 x 105 cm
Both in content and style, Luoke Chen's work differs from traditional Chinese ink painting: although there were also sexually oriented depictions, the depiction of nature, landscapes, portraits, animals or plants dominated. Luoke Chen delicately, but clearly, suggests an unclothed female body. His style corresponds to "Modernism" in China from the 19^th century onwards, in which Chinese artists slowly broke away from their traditional role models and developed their own style. While Chen's work was initially strongly influenced by traditional Chinese art, European and Chinese elements merge in his "nude". At the same time, he retains the reduction to the essential, the simplicity of traditional art.

Luoke Chen (*1957 in Taipei, Taiwan) exhibited in 1995 at the academy as part of a China conference ("Ink and Watercolors"). After graduating from the Taiwan State Academy of Art, he took up a successfully completed second course of study at the Bergische Universität GHS Wuppertal, Department of Industrial Design. Before his career as a freelance artist, he was a lecturer for figurative drawing and painting at the Bergische University. Today he lives and works in Wuppertal.