Tseng Yu-ho
American painter
Tseng Yu-ho (Chinese: 曾佑和; 1924/1925–2017) was a Chinese-born American art historian, visual artist, curator, and educator. She taught at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and was a curator at the Honolulu Academy of Arts (now Honolulu Museum of Art). She is also known as Betty Ecke, Tseng Yuho, and Betty Tseng Yu-Ho Ecke.
Early life and family
Tseng Yu-ho was born either in 1924 or 1925 in Peking, China. As the daughter of an admiral, she had a privileged upbringing. Tseng started painting when she was 11, when she was bedridden for 3 months with pleurisy. When she recovered, she began studying painting with the chief Manchu House representative prince Pu Jin.
She graduated from Fu-jen University (now Fu Jen Catholic University) in 1942, and then pursued graduate studies in Chinese art history and Chinese literature at Fu-jen University and Peking University.
Yu-ho married German-born art historian Gustav Ecke in 1945. She had been one of his students at Peking University.
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