The Most Famous
PAINTERS from South Korea
This page contains a list of the greatest South Korean Painters. The pantheon dataset contains 1,421 Painters, 2 of which were born in South Korea. This makes South Korea the birth place of the 50th most number of Painters behind Philippines and Indonesia.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary South Korean Painters of all time. This list of famous South Korean Painters is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Sin Yun-bok (1758 - )
With an HPI of 55.41, Sin Yun-bok is the most famous South Korean Painter. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Sin Yun-bok (Korean: 신윤복; 1758–1813), better known by his art name Hyewon, was a Korean painter of the Joseon period. Like his contemporaries Danwon and Geungjae, he is known for his realistic depictions of daily life in his time. His genre paintings are distinctly more erotic than Danwon's, a fact which contributed to his expulsion from the royal painting institute, Dohwaseo. Painting was frequently a hereditary occupation in the Joseon period, and Hyewon's father and grandfather had both been court painters. Together with Danwon and the later painter Owon, Hyewon is remembered today as one of the "Three Wons" of Joseon-period painting.
2. Gim Hongdo (1745 - 1806)
With an HPI of 54.01, Gim Hongdo is the 2nd most famous South Korean Painter. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Kim Hong-do (Korean: 김홍도, 1745–c.1806 to 1814) was a Korean painter during the Joseon dynasty. He is mostly remembered for his depictions of the everyday life of ordinary people, in a manner analogous to painters of the Dutch Golden Age. He was also widely known by his art name Danwon (단원).
Pantheon has 2 people classified as painters born between 1745 and 1758. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased painters include Sin Yun-bok and Gim Hongdo. As of April 2022, 2 new painters have been added to Pantheon including Sin Yun-bok and Gim Hongdo.
