Artist · Myanmar

1890 to 1945

In their own script

“ဘကလေး (ရွှေတလေး)”

No photograph on recordဘကလေး (ရွှေတလေး)
Born1890
CountryMyanmar
Workcartoonist
Alsoactor
Died1945

Ba Gale (Shwe Yoe).

cartoonist · actor

Myanmar, 1890 to 1945

In short

Pathein-born artist trained at the Burma Art Club whose first cartoon appeared in 1915 and whose cartoon in Thuriya in 1917 was the first in Burmese; The Irrawaddy calls him the father of Burmese cartoonists. He later became a film comedian whose Shwe Yoe character dance is still performed..

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Born
1890
Died
1945
Citizenship
Myanmar
Work
cartoonist, actor
Career

Ba Gale (Shwe Yoe), in numbers

Lifetime

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