The South Korean Collector Who Fell for Posters From Communist Poland
Few in the Polish art world knew his name then. But the man, Oh Hwangtaek, went on to own one of the most comprehensive collections of 20th-century Polish posters assembled by a private collector. He also stands out among art collectors for his focus on works from a country 5,000 miles away from his own.
'I was surprised,' said Krzysztof Dydo, a gallery owner in Krakow who said he had sold him several posters. Mr. Oh was 'buying posters everywhere he could find,' he said.
Today, hundreds of these artworks hang in a museum that Mr. Oh, 77, built near Seoul, called the E-ham Campus.
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