It has been 50 years for the reason that profession of one of many main post-war figures in Chinese language artwork was reduce brief by his dying in Hong Kong.
Lui Shou-kwan, who labored for the municipal authorities in Guangzhou in southern China, moved to the then British colony together with his household in 1948. There, he discovered work as an inspector for the Hong Kong and Yaumati Ferry Firm, a job he held till 1966.
Typically discovering himself on the piers on both aspect of Victoria Harbour between which the corporate’s vessels ferried passengers from Hong Kong Island to Kowloon and again, Lui had a front-row view of some dramatic landscapes.
Born in 1919 in Guangzhou, Lui was the son of Lui Canming, a scholar-painter who owned an vintage store. His father inspired him to learn to paint by copying the works of Chinese language masters from a younger age.