Early Life, Family and Training Ibrahim Hussein was born on 19 February 1936, the son of a farmer in Kampung Limau Dalam, Sugai Limau in Yan Kedah. His upbringing was shaped by the quiet life of the village, though his path toward art was noticed early by his older brother, Abdullah Hussein. Growing up in a period of scarcity, his early years were marked by the realities of a rural existence. A man named Douglas Muir, an English assis…