Vietnamese Artists

Lebadang

Background

Lebadang was born in Vietnam in 1922 and emigrated to France in 1939 to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse. He had his first one-man show in Paris in 1950 and over the next thirty years gained prominence throughout France and Germany. He came to the attention of Americans in 1966 when the Cincinnati Art Museum hosted the first one-man exhibition of his paintings in the United States. Lebdang is recognized as one of the world’s most accomplished printmakers. His work is held by the Rockefeller Collection and the Phoenix Art Museum, among others.