Zhu Qizhan, native of Taicang, Jiangsu Province, started painting at the age of seven. He later studied oil painting at the Shanghai Art College, and stayed on as an instructor after he graduated. In 1918 he went to Japan to learn sketching techniques from Takeji Fujishima and other masters. Zhu's earlier work mainly consisted of oil paintings, but since the late 1950's he has concentrated more on traditional Chinese painting, building a reputation in landscape, bird and flower painting. In 1981, his works toured Shanghai, Jiangsu, Sichuan and Beijing. He has had many one-man exhibitions, as well in China as abroad.
Zhu is well versed in ancient as well as modern, foreign and Chinese painting techniques.

Examples of the Artist's work were exhibited at the British Museum, 21 February - 10 March 1995