“My dad was an ordinary man, who led an ordinary life,” Hung Chun-hsiung said. THOUSANDS OF WORKSNow, more than 2,500 of his works dating from 1930 to 1996 are to return home from the US, after Hung Chun-hsiung and his family decided to donate them to the Ministry of Culture. “As we walked, he said that he could hear music playing, although I could only hear the sound of waves,” Hung Chun-hsiung said. Hung Jui-lin became renowned for his paintings of miners, the central motif of most of his works. In his later years, he moved to the US to live with Hung Chun-hsiung, who operated a restaurant in California.

Source: Taipei Times January 20, 2020 15:56 UTC