Binode Behari Mukherjee

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Binode Behari Mukherjee ( Bengali বিনোদ বিহারী মুখোপাধ্যায় , Binod Bihārī Mukhopādhyāẏ , Binod Bihari Mukhopadhyay ; born February 7, 1904 in Behala [now part of Kolkata ], † November 19, 1980 in New Delhi ) was an Indian artist and professor at the Visva -Bharati University in Shantiniketan .

Life

Mukherjee was born with severe visual impairment - one eye was blind and the other was myopic . Since childhood he was interested in painting and became a student of the painter Nandalal Bose in Shantiniketan. He combined influences of modern art from the West with traditions of Indian painting. In the 1930s he himself became a teacher at the art faculty at Shantiniketan University. During a study trip to Japan in 1937 he learned calligraphy, among other things, and later used East Asian techniques in his work. Mukherjee created frescoes and wall paintings on buildings of the university, which are among his most important works. Well-known students of Mukherjee were the painter KG Subramanyan , the sculptor Somnath Hore and the filmmaker Satyajit Ray . In 1949 he became director of the Nepalese National Museum in Kathmandu . In the early 1950s he moved to Masuri and opened his own painting school, which had to close again after a short time due to financial difficulties. He stayed in Shantiniketan until the end of his life. In 1957 he went completely blind after an eye operation, but continued to paint.

In 1972 his former student Ray made the documentary The Inner Eye about Mukherjee. In 1974 Mukherjee was awarded the Padma Vibhushan . 46 of his works are in the possession of the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi .

Exhibitions

literature

  • Benodebehari Mukherjee; KG Subramanyan (translator): Chitrakar. The Artist. Seagull Books , Calcutta 2006, ISBN 81-7046-282-7 .
  • Ajay Sinha: Against Allegory: Binode Bihari Mukherjee's Medieval Saints at Shantiniketan. In: Richard Davis (Ed.): Picturing the Nation. Iconographies of Modern India. Orient Longman, Hyderabad 2007, ISBN 978-81-250-2908-3 .
  • Nemai Ghosh: Ray and the Blind Painter. An Odyssey into the Inner Eye. New Age, Kolkata 2004, ISBN 81-7819-041-9 .
  • Jayanta Chakrabarti, Arun Kumar Nag and R. Sivakumar: The Santiniketan Murals. Seagull Books , Calcutta 1995, ISBN 81-7046-116-2 .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ also in numerous other Anglicizing Latin script versions such as Benode Behari Mukherjee , Benodebehari Mukherjee , Binod Behari Mukherjee , Benode Bihari Mukherjee , Binode Bihari Mukherjee , Benod Behari Mukherjee
  2. ^ Calcutta Municipal Gazette , Office of the Registrar of Newspapers. Press in India., 1980, vol. 98, p. 1902
  3. ↑ http://ngmaindia.gov.in/collections-artist.asp?strLetter=M

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personal data
SURNAME Mukherjee, Binode Behari
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mukherjee, Benode Behari; Mukherjee, Benodebehari; Mukherjee, Binod Behari; Mukherjee, Benode Bihari; Mukherjee, Binode Bihari; Mukherjee, Benod Behari; Mukhopadhyay, Binod Bihari
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian artist and professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Behala ( Kolkata )
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1980
Place of death New Delhi