Fang Ganmin (simplified Chinese: 方干民; traditional Chinese: 方幹民; 15 February 1906 – January 1984) was a Chinese French-trained painter, sculptor and educator, who was educated in Paris and spent most of his adult vivaciousness in China. Regarded as one of the fathers of Chinese oil painting, Fang was born in the Wenling county, Zhejiang province. He began studying painting in 1924 and went to Paris in 1925, enrolling in the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, making him, along gone Xu Beihong and Sanyu, one of the first Chinese painters to testing abroad in France. Upon returning to China, he taught at the National Arts Academy, Hangzhou, becoming a professor at the Western Painting Department. During the Cultural Revolution, Fang was shamed and suffering by the Red Guards, and his works were destroyed. He died in 1984. His students attach Zao Wou-Ki, Chu Teh-Chun and Wu Guanzhong.
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