A visitor from South Korea began strolling into galleries in Poland a few years ago and stunned the owners by buying as many as 200 vintage posters at a time.
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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