Whanki Kim

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Whanki Kim
Korean name
Hangul 김환기 Hanja 金煥基 Revised Romanization Gim Hwan Gi McCune-Reischauer Kim Whan Ki
Pen name
Hangul 수화 Hanja 樹話 Revised Romanization Suhwa

Kim Hwan-gi (1913 February 27 - 1974 July 25) was a pioneer and leading abstract artist of South Korea.^[1]

[edit] Biography

Kim Hwan-gi was born in 1913 as the son of a wealthy shipowner in Eupdong-ri, Anjwa-myeon, Sinan County, South Jeolla Province, South Korea. He got secondary school education and entered an art department of a university in Japan.

[edit] References

1. ^ *Answers.com. The Concise Grove Dictionary of Ar. Kim Hwan-gi (accessdate=2007-12-09). t Oxford University Press, Inc..

• Keith Pratt; Richard Rutt, Jamese Hoare (1999). Korea:A Historical a Cultural Dictionary. Curzon, 212-213p. ISBN 0700704647. 

[edit] External links

• Kim Whanki - exhibit at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts at ArtForum, Summer, 1996 by Barry Schwabsky
• (Korean)Detail information about Kim Hwan-gi and his works at National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
• Information about The Hwangi Art Museum