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Jeon Hyeongpil (in Hangul:전형필, in Hanja:全鎣弼, July 29, 1906 ~ January 26, 1962 Seoul) was a Korean educationist and an art collector who gathered hundreds of Korean cultural assets and had the pen name of Gansong. He is famous for his great achievement to collect 12 national treasures, 10 treasures and 4 cultural assets designated by Seoul metropolitan government. He strove to bring back Korean cultural assets and heritage from Japan since a great deal of Korean antiquities were taken by Japanese collectors during colonial rule of Japan in the early 20th century.〔(Kansong Art Museum ) Seoul Metropolitan Government〕 The first private art museum was built in 1938 named Bohwagak(in Hangul:보화각) and later took care of most of valuable Korean antiquities during Korean War.〔(Meet the "four friends" at Gansong Art Museum )〕 After his death in 1962, the name Bohwagak was changed into Gansong Art Museum which only opens twice in a year since 1971.〔(Gansong Art Museum ) Seoul Metropolitan Government〕 The museum cherishes a great deal of the rarest cultural artifacts of Korean art. == Lifetime == He was born into a wealthy family in 1906. In 1926, he graduated from Whimoon High School and then went to Law department of Waseda University.〔(Live Journal )〕 His father was able to possess a great fortune by expanding his shops along Jongno street, current central area of Seoul.〔Park Sangjun, 《서울 이런곳 와보셨나요? 100/ Have you visited these places in Seoul? 100》 p. 121, 2008〕 In 1932, he overtook his work to collect Korean antiquities at own expense to protect Korean art and culture. His top priority was to preserve Korean artifacts during Japanese rule.〔(Korea's Top three museum )〕 It is said that an independent activist Go Hui-dong and O se-chang influenced Jeon's philosophy and philanthropic passion for Korean arts.〔()〕〔Kim Yoonsoo, 《한국미술 100년 The Centennial of Korean art》p.598, 2006〕 For achieving his own ambition, he established an art institute, Bukdanjang(북단장, 北壇莊) to research the value of priceless treasures and antiquities and built Bohwagak building, the first private art museum of Korea in the existing institute at his age of 32(1938).〔Park Sangjun, 《서울 이런곳 와보셨나요? 100/ Did you visit these places in Seoul? 100》 p. 121, 2008〕〔(Museums in Seoul, Korea ) USA Today〕 In 1940, he was seated as a principal of Boseong high school currently in Songpa district of Seoul and later organized the group Dongin, the first Korean association on art history. Art history association of Korea has been rooted in this organization.〔(“발로 뛴 사진 120만 장 모아 한국미술사연구 집대성할 것” ) Shindong-a, Monthly magazing 2013-01-25〕 In 1962, he was posthumously honored to the cultural medals by South Korean government. Bohwagak was later transformed to The institute of Korean ethnic art to study and research collections of Mr. Jeon in 1966, which later became reopened under the name of Kansong Art Museum since 1971.〔(Gansong art museum ) Visitkorea.or.kr〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeon Hyeongpil」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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