Tô Ngọc Vân

Tô Ngọc Vân (蘇玉雲, 15 December 1906 or 1908 – 17 June 1954), also known as Tô Tử, was a Vietnamese painter. Several of his paintings are being displayed at the <a href="/facts/Vietnam_National_Museum_of_Fine_Arts/VJQqUakP">Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts</a>. He taught a resistance art class in the northern zone during the war with the French, and died as the result of injuries received at the <a href="/facts/Battle_of_%C4%90i%E1%BB%87n_Bi%C3%AAn_Ph%E1%BB%A7/MWoWcNDh">Battle of Điện Biên Phủ</a>.
He was among the first recipients of the <a href="/facts/Ho_Chi_Minh_Prize/WJxdhvrU">Ho Chi Minh Prize</a> in 1996.
He worked as painting teacher in Bưởi school, professor at the <a href="/facts/%C3%89cole_des_Beaux-Arts_de_l%E2%80%99Indochine/n4eUQCwL">École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine</a> and principal of the Việt Bắc Art School and has had significant influence on a whole generation of artists in Vietnam.
Vân contributed to the magazines of Tự Lực văn đoàn ("Self-Strengthening literary group") by drawing cartoons on current events, social issues, and everyday live.

The <a href="/facts/To_Ngoc_Van_(crater)/AHxp4jVF">To Ngoc Van (crater)</a> on Mercury was named in his honour.

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