Lee Hang Sung Biography
Lee Hang Sung was a Korean painter and printmaker born in Seoul in 1919.
He began his artistic career as a painter and then moved on to engraving at the end of the 1940s. In addition to lithography, the artist devoted himself to researching a wide variety of printing techniques, including woodcut, etching, silkscreen and woodcut.
Lee Hang Sung was the president of the Korean Graphic Arts Society, which began in Seoul in 1958. Through his work within the organization, printmaking has become a significant art form in Korea. Needing to operate in a new artistic environment, Lee Hang Sung moved to Paris in 1975. His abstract calligraphic engravings have allowed him to acquire a certain notoriety. Lee Hang Sung presented his works in numerous solo exhibitions in Manila and Taipei in 1960, in Seoul in 1962, 1970, 1972 and 1975, in Stockholm, Paris and New York in 1974, in Vienna and again in Paris in 1977; he has also participated in international group exhibitions. In 1959 he won an award at the International Print Biennial organized by the Cincinnati Museum of Art in the United States. The artist's works are part of the collections of several museums including the Gothenburg Art Museum, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Bonn City Hall, the Saarbrücken City Hall, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea and the National Gallery of Art of Washington, DC.
In the last years of his life, Lee Hang Sung contributed to the creation of numerous publications as an author or co-author. He passed away in 1997.
