Kim Song Gun

Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl	김성근
Revised Romanization	Gim Seong-geun
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Sŏnggŭn
See also : Korean name

Kim Song Gun , also Seong Geun Kim , ( kor. 김성근 ; * 1945 in Chonma, North Korea ) is a North Korean painter . He works at the Mansudae Art Studio in Pyongyang .

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Kim Song Gun is also called the "painter of the waves" because he almost exclusively paints sea and river scenes with thundering waters. Although the depictions are on the one hand very realistic, the painter achieves a subtle, modern form through the brutality of the waves on the other of abstraction. One of his wave paintings received international attention because it was featured in the background of the official photo of Bill Clinton's state visit to Kim Jong-il in 2009.

Awards

• 1999: People's Prize for "waves of the sea Kumgang"

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1. ^ In the Berliner Zeitung of August 28, 2012
2. ↑ z. As the Wall Street Journal on August 10, 2009

Web links

• Ingeborg Ruthe: My Picture of the Week: Parables in North Korean , Berliner Zeitung , August 28, 2012
• "Hae Kumkang" and exhibition report on artdaily.org (in English)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Song-gun is the first name.