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Fellowship Project

Mr. LEE Ho Cheung plans to spend four and a half months at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich, Switzerland, to conduct research on Chinese painting, and conduct field trip in other European museums with important Chinese painting collections. He will focus on the Charles A. Drenowatz Collection at the Museum Rietberg in conjunction with a comparative study of the Xubaizhai Collection at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, discussing the role of 20th-century European and Hong Kong private collectors in the connoisseurship of Chinese painting and calligraphy.

Biography

Mr. Lee Ho Cheung graduated from the Department of Fine Arts of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester in the UK. He has worked respectively at the Hong Kong Museum of Art and the Art Promotion Office, and is now the Assistant Curator I (Xubaizhai) at the Hong Kong Museum of Art. He is responsible for the collection research, exhibition planning, and promotion of the Xubaizhai Collection of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, with a research focus on Chinese painting and calligraphy from the Ming and Qing dynasties to the 20th Century.