About Wang Lu Huan

Wang Lu Huan is a Chinese-born artist who specializes in stone carvings, seal scripts, traditional Chinese painting, calligraphy, and poetry. He has displayed his work in many national and international museums such as the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, The California Academy of Sciences, and the Beijing World Art Museum. His work is also permanently collected as national treasures at the National Palace Museums in both Beijing and Taipei.

“Lu Huan’s carvings resembles a fossilized creature arising organically from the base of the stone. These aren't the work of nature, however, but of Wang’s skilled hand. The colorful animals perched on top may look like they are painted and glued on, but they are actually carved from a single piece of stone. For most of them, Wang used a type of stone called Chinese Balin, a creamy-textured Mongolian treasure found in green, white, yellow, and pink.

Wang spends countless hours carving from life, by observing the pets he cherishes. He raises reptiles, amphibians, crustaceans, and insects in his home. His subjects—the poison dart frog, chameleon, and Chinese roach, for instance—aren’t easy creatures to rear, but for Wang, they are his beloved's. They offer a different kind of loving observation of the natural world. ‘It’s a little bit like a scientist observing animals,’ says NHM’s Collections Manager of Anthropology, KT Hajeian, who points out that each artwork has a hidden message displayed at the base. ‘He raises the animal, carves them, write a poem to them,’ Hajeian says. ‘They are beautiful odes to the animal.’ Wang is also a skilled calligrapher. 

Lu Huan Wang was born in 1948 in Hebei Province, China. After graduating from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1969, he became an artist-in-residence at the Palace Museum in Beijing (also known as the Forbidden City) for 16 years before moving to California.”

Julia Wilde, (Excerpt from “A Miniature Stone Zoo” for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County)

王魯桓簡介
1948 年生於河北省承德市。1949 年遷居北京市。小學期間在北京景山少年宮學習中國畫。

1965 年考入中央美術學院附中。

1973 年分配到北京故宮博物院從事藝術創作16 年。而後遷居美國。

1982 年首次在中國美術館舉辦個人展覽。

1989 年應邀在美國舉辦個人藝術展覽。先後在洛杉磯博物館，丹佛博物館、奧克拉荷馬博物館、三藩市博物館長年巡迴展出繪畫石雕作品。

1996 年應邀在臺灣故宮博物院舉辦展覽。

2001 年北京故宮、中國美術家協會、中央美術學院在中國美術館聯合主辦魯桓個人展覽。

2004 年魯桓藝術作品出租給美國丹佛新建藝術博物館展出。

2006 年7 月應北京中華世紀壇世界藝術館邀請回國舉辦個人展覽。 

魯桓詩、書、畫、印、雕，無所不精，格調高雅，皆付新意。詩詞師承蕭勞（蕭鍾美）先生三十餘年，所作千首多以動物為題，新意自創，藉以褒貶世事，在他數藝中，自稱詩為第一。所畫人物，花鳥，題材廣泛，技法獨特，師造化，畫中有己，將詩、書、畫、印，融為一紙，人稱之為新文人畫。 石雕有隨形與寫真兩種風格，魯桓首次以天然石色專雕兩栖爬行類等動物，并題詩文於石上，形成了自己獨特的文人雕風格。

1993 年12 月，魯桓石雕作品共4 件，入藏北京故宮博物院。

2000 年6 月，魯桓於北京故宮“五毒室”中所作長卷——“虺蛇圖”及其它書畫、石雕作品9 件，入藏台灣故宮博物院。

2019 年至2020 年，洛杉磯自然歷史博物館先後兩次收藏了魯桓的石雕，詩畫冊頁等50 餘件作品。 

著有《魯桓詩詞選》、《魯桓詩聯》、《魯桓詩配畫》《魯桓詩書畫雕選》。