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UngNo Lee BIOGRAPHY
1904 Hongseong, Korea - 1989 Paris,France. Known for: Painting.
Ungno Lee initially established himself primarily in South Korea, where he is considered an important artist of the 20th century. In 1945 he founded GO AM in Seoul, an institution for painting, where... Read full biography
Ungno Lee initially established himself primarily in South Korea, where he is considered an important artist of the 20th century. In 1945 he founded GO AM in Seoul, an institution for painting, where he taught sumi-é, a special technique of ink drawing with predominantly landscape motifs. Three... Read full biography
Ungno Lee initially established himself primarily in South Korea, where he is considered an important artist of the 20th century. In 1945 he founded GO AM in Seoul, an institution for painting, where he taught sumi-é, a special technique of ink drawing with predominantly landscape motifs. Three years later, he became the director of Eastern Painting Studies at Hongik University. After a long stay in Paris in 1956, he finally settled in the French metropolis in 1959. In search of his family... Read full biography
Ungno Lee initially established himself primarily in South Korea, where he is considered an important artist of the 20th century. In 1945 he founded GO AM in Seoul, an institution for painting, where he taught sumi-é, a special technique of ink drawing with predominantly landscape motifs. Three years later, he became the director of Eastern Painting Studies at Hongik University. After a long stay in Paris in 1956, he finally settled in the French metropolis in 1959. In search of his family members, now domiciled in North Korea, he returned to his homeland in 1967 after a stay in East Berlin, whereupon he was accused of espionage and imprisoned. Thanks to international engagement, he escaped a prison sentence and moved to Paris again in... Read full biography
Ungno Lee initially established himself primarily in South Korea, where he is considered an important artist of the 20th century. In 1945 he founded GO AM in Seoul, an institution for painting, where he taught sumi-é, a special technique of ink drawing with predominantly landscape motifs. Three years later, he became the director of Eastern Painting Studies at Hongik University. After a long stay in Paris in 1956, he finally settled in the French metropolis in 1959. In search of his family members, now domiciled in North Korea, he returned to his homeland in 1967 after a stay in East Berlin, whereupon he was accused of espionage and imprisoned. Thanks to international engagement, he escaped a prison sentence and moved to Paris again in 1970. Lee mainly worked with ink. Initially influenced by traditional calligraphy, his oeuvre later developed into abstraction... Read full biography
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Go-Am Ungno Lee, Ung-No Lee, Lee UngNo
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Ungno Lee initially established himself primarily in South Korea, where he is considered an important artist of the 20th century. In 1945 he founded GO AM in Seoul, an institution for painting, where he taught sumi-é, a special technique of ink drawing with predominantly landscape motifs. Three years later, he became the director of Eastern Painting Studies at Hongik University. After a long stay in Paris in 1956, he finally settled in the French metropolis in 1959.
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