Seund Ja Rhee

This is a Korean name; the family name is Rhee.
Seund Ja Rhee
Born (1918-06-03)June 3, 1918
Died March 8, 2009(2009-03-08) (aged 90)
Nationality South Korea
Alma mater Jinju Girls' High School
Jissen Women's University
Académie de la Grande Chaumière
Occupation Painter, printmaker, ceramist
Korean name
Hangul 이성자
Hanja
Revised Romanization Yi Seong-ja
McCune–Reischauer Yi Sŏngja

Seund Ja Rhee (also transcribed as Seongja Lee; June 3, 1918 – March 8, 2009) was a South Korean painter, printmaker and ceramist. She was a prolific artist with more than 1,000 paintings, 700 prints, 250 ceramics, and numerous drawings. She exhibited mainly in France and in South Korea, with 84 solo exhibitions and almost 300 group exhibitions during her lifetime.

Early life

Born in Jinju, Gyeongsangnam-do in Korea under Japanese rule, Rhee studied in Jinju Girls' High School before moving to Japan to attend Jissen Women's University in Tokyo in 1938. In 1938, she returned home and married. In 1951, she was separated from her three sons by the Korean War. Then she left for Paris, where she entered the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in 1953 to study under Yves Brayer and Henri Goetz.

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