Soo Hwa : Kim Whan Ki
February 27, 1913 - July 25, 1974
Born in Shinan, Jeollanam-do
Education : Bachelor of Fine Arts, Nihon University, Nishiki Shiro Junior
High School
Evaluated as a first generation of Korean Abstract Painting,
A Professor of Hongik University from 1913 to 1974,
Soo Hwa Kim Whan Ki is the Korea's first generation of a painter of
modernism
Stylizing Korean classical materials into an abstract formative language,
he is a painter who gave a new turning point in the history of World Art.
The birthplace : Eupdong-ri Ahjwa-do Shinan, Jeollanam-do