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| name             = Gu Gan
| image            = Gu Gan.jpeg
| caption          = Gu Gan in 2009
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| birth_date       = {{birth date|1942|07|28}}
| birth_place      = [[Changsha]], [[Hunan Province]], China
| death_date       = {{death date and age|2020|05|30|1942|07|28|df=yes}}
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| ''Heart to Heart'', Label for Wine by [[Château Mouton Rothschild]]
| ''The Red Golden Age'', Collected by [[British Museum]]
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'''Gu Gan''' ({{zh|古干}} b.1942<ref name="Sullivan2006">{{cite book|last=Sullivan|first=Michael|title=Modern Chinese Artists: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lg_-RQ3t3dYC&pg=PA43|accessdate=4 June 2013|year=2006|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520244498|pages=43–}}</ref>),the family name is Gu, also whose original name is Zhang Shiqiang, is a calligraphist from [[Changsha]], [[Hunan Province]], China. He graduated from the middle school attached to the Central Art Academy in 1962. In 1975, he was assigned to work in the People's Literature Publishing House.
In 1998 he was invited by Baroness Philippine de Rothschild to design the wine label for the Mouton Rothschild 1996 vintage.<ref name="Barrass2002">{{cite book|last=Barrass|first=Gordon S.|title=The Art of Calligraphy in Modern China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y2ahlsvtHbsC&pg=PA190|accessdate=4 June 2013|year=2002|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520234512|pages=190–}}</ref> Gu Gan is the first Chinese artist to ever have been thus honored.<ref>{{cite web|title=The 1996 Chateau Mouton Rothschild Label by Gu Gan|url=http://www.theartistlabels.com/mouton/1996.html|work=Château Mouton Rothschild: The Artist Labels}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/2001/06/20/0620conn.html|title=Now Is The Time To Buy Chinese Art|last=Rohleder|first=Anna|work=[[Forbes]]|accessdate=4 June 2013}}</ref>
== Positions ==
*Member of the Chinese Artists Association
*First president of the China Society of modern Calligraphy and painting
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