Kyaw Hlaing was born on 28 September 1914 in Bogalay, son of wealthy parents with an interest in art.
11 Facts About Kyaw Hlaing
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Kyaw Hlaing found work as an art instructor in Bogalay, later moving to Yangon where he taught in high schools for many years.
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Kyaw Hlaing belonged to the second generation of Burmese painters who studied under Ba Nyan in the 1930s.
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Kyaw Hlaing exhibited at many art shows in the 1960s, and his paintings were collected by many art lovers.
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Kyaw Hlaing quoted 80 oil paintings as an estimate of the number of oil works he had done in his lifetime.
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Kyaw Hlaing's pupils included Min Wae Aung, Zaw Zaw Aung, Hla Tun, Zaw Win Pe and Kyaw Shein.
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Kyaw Hlaing was a handsome man with a wiry, towering frame.
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One of these works by Zaw Zaw Aung, an ironic oil painting titled Portrait of U Kyaw Hlaing: Visit Myanmar Year 1996, was done when Kyaw Hlaing had passed the age of 80.
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Kyaw Hlaing was a calm and taciturn person with a taste for tea and cigars, always helpful to his fellow artists.
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Kyaw Hlaing lived with his wife in a poor quarter of Yangon.
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Kyaw Hlaing died at the age of 82 on 13 April 1996.