Go Hui-dong (; 1886–1965), also known by the
pen name
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Chun-gok, born in
Seoul
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, was the first Korean painter to adopt Western styles. He spent most of his life in Seoul. He studied French there from 1899 to 1903 and briefly took a post with the
Korean government. Leaving the post in 1905, he studied Korean painting for several years and then traveled to Japan, where he studied Western-style painting under
Kuroda Seiki from 1909 to 1915. He returned to Korea in 1915 and sought to fuse traditional and Korean styles. Currently his house located in Bukchon Village is open to public.
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Artnet profile
20th-century Korean painters
Modern painters
1886 births
1965 deaths
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