Lee Ungno

Lee Ungno ( Korean 이응노 ) (born January 12, 1904 in Hongbuk-eup, Hongseong-gun County, Chungcheongnam-do Province , Korea , † January 10, 1989 in Paris ) was a South Korean painter .

Spelling of his name

In Korea two spellings of his name are known, 이응노 and 이응로 , which differ only in the final syllable of his first name “no” or “ro”. Different transliterations of his name were used in western countries . In addition to the transliterations used in this article, others such as Lee Ung-no , Lee Go-Am Ungno , Yi Ung-no , Yi Ŭng-no and Yi Eungro are known.

In 1933 Jeong Byongjo gave him his stage name Goam , which he only used temporarily.

Live and act

Lee Ungno was born on January 12, 1904 in Hongbuk-myeon ( 홍북면 ), Hongseong-gun County ( 홍성군 ), Chungcheongnam-do ( 충청남도 ) Province . At the age of six he began attending elementary school and at the age of 16 he learned the basics of painting with black ink from his teacher, the calligrapher Yomjae Song Taehoi ( 욤재 송태호이 ). In 1922 he moved to Seoul to learn traditional bamboo painting from the calligrapher Kim Gyujin ( 김규진 ) and in 1924 he won third prize at the Joseon Art Exhibition for his work of a blue bamboo.

In 1928 he moved to Jeonju ( 전주시 ) and opened a business for advertising signs , which ensured him a steady income. In 1935 he and his family moved to Tokyo , where he founded a newspaper agency. In Tokyo he attended the Kawabata Art School to study oriental painting, then the Hongo Painting Research Center , where he approached western painting and at the end of his studies in Japan he learned in the Deuko Painting Studio with master Matsubayashi Keigetsu ( 松林 桂月 ). During his time in Japan, he won two prizes and had his first solo exhibition at the Hwashin Gallery in Seoul.

In 1945 Lee Ungno went back to Korea, opened the Goam Art Studio in Seoul and in 1948 took over a professorship at the College of Fine Art at Hongik University . After the end of the Korean War , he accepted a professorship in the Department of Oriental Painting at Sorabol Art College , published his book in 1956, entitled Appreciation and Techniques of the Oriental Painting, and had works in exhibitions in New York and Seoul.

In December 1958 he moved to France , had a few exhibitions in Germany , such as in the Kunstmuseum Bonn , one in Frankfurt and two in Cologne, and in January 1960 he finally moved to Paris . Since then he has been represented by the Paul Facchetti Gallery . In 1963 his works were exhibited in the opening exhibition of the Margarete Lauter Gallery in Mannheim in cooperation with Paul Facchetti and were then presented several times. From there he took part in various exhibitions in France, Germany, Denmark , Switzerland , Italy , Belgium , Great Britain , South Korea , Japan , USA and in São Paulo in Brazil , some of them as solo exhibitions. In 1964 he founded the L'Académie de Peinture Orientale de Paris together with 14 French sponsors and published other books.

In 1967 Lee was involved in an espionage affair when he had traveled to East Berlin to find out something about his son who had disappeared in North Korea during the Korean War through North Korean contacts . The South Korean secret service accused him of collaborating with North Korea and held him in prison from 1967 to 1969 after entering South Korea. During this time, around 300 pictures were created, painted with soy sauce , soybean paste and sticky grains of rice .

On January 10, 1989, Lee Ungno died of a heart attack in Paris, where he was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery.

Ungno Lee Museum of Art

In his honor , the Ungno Lee Museum of Art was built in 2007 in Daejeon ( 대전 광역시 ), near the Daejeon Museum of Art , and opened on May 7, 2017. Designed by French architect Laurent Beaudouin , it has four halls and in them honors Lee's creative days, from his early days to the end of his time in Paris. In 2012 the Daejeon Goam Art and Culture Foundation was founded in his honor .

literature

• Mok Soo-hyun: characters, characters, people - Lee Ungno . Representation of the essence with ink and reflection on history. In: Koreana . Volume 10, No. 1. The Korea Foundation , 2015, ISSN  1975-0617 , p. 12–15 (German-language edition).

Web links

• Biography . Leeungno Museum,accessed November 22, 2017. 
• Life and Art . Leeungno Museum,accessed November 22, 2017. 
• The Academy of Oriental Painting in Paris . Leeungno Museum,accessed November 22, 2017. 
• Mael Bellec : Gift of Lee Ungno . Cernuschi Museum , accessed on November 23, 2017 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yi, Ǔng-No . Virtual International Authority File , accessed November 23, 2017 .  
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Biography . Leeungno Museum, accessed November 22, 2017 .  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Life and Art . Leeungno Museum, accessed November 22, 2017 .  
4. ↑ New art gallery in Mannheim | Video | ARD media library. Retrieved February 15, 2020 . 
5. ^ The Academy of Oriental Painting in Paris . Leeungno Museum, accessed November 22, 2017 .  
6. ↑ Mok: characters, characters, people - Lee Ungno . In: Koreana . 2015, p. 14 .
7. ↑ Ungno Lee Museum of Art ( 이응노 미술관 ). In: Visit Korea . Visit Korea , accessed November 23, 2017 .  

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Lee is the family name here, Ungno is the first name.