Ma Jir Bo, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Ma Jir Bo

Chinese painter

Date of Birth: 26-Aug-1927

Date of Death: 08-Dec-1985

Profession: painter

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Ma Jir Bo or Ma Jiabao (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Ma Jiabao; 26 August 1927 – 8 December 1985) was a Chinese realism artist and oil painter.
Ma is praised for his great portraitures, highly realistic texture-feeling still lifes and memory-rekindling landscapes of Hong Kong all that made him a leading oil painter of his era.
Ma is regarded as 'the legacy of Classic Western Masters in the East'.
During his career, he created roughly 300 oil paintings, some 50 watercolours, as well as some traditional Chinese ink paintings and Chinese calligraphies.