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Nandalal Bose
  • Date of Birth:
    December 3, 1883
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Sagittarius
  • Place of Birth:
    Kharagpur, Bihar
  • Place of Death:
    Calcutta, West Bengal
  • Date of Death:
    April 16, 1966
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Nationality:
    Indian
  • Education:
    1903-05 Commercial Class, Presidency College, Calcutta
    1905-10 Student of Abanindranath Tagore, Govt. School of Art and Craft, Calcutta

Family

Nandalal Bose
  • Father:
    Purnachandra Bose
  • Mother:
    Kshetramoni Devi

Career

Nandalal Bose

Trivia

Nandalal Bose
  • Some of his illustrious students are Pratima Thakur, Benode Behari Mukherjee, Ramkinkar Baiz, Jahar Dasgupta and Sabita Thakur.
  • The Academy of Fine Arts in Calcutta honored Nandalal with the Silver Jubilee Medal.
  • In 1956 CE, he became the second artist to be elected Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Art.
  • Was awarded a prize of Rs. 500 at the first art exhibition organized by it in 1908 CE for his painting Shiva-Sati.
  • Became principal of the Kala Bhavan (Art Department) at Santiniketan in 1922.
  • His classic works include paintings of scenes from Indian mythologies, women, and village life.
  • These lovers of art felt that objective criticism was necessary for the development of painting and founded the Indian Society of Oriental Art.
  • His genius and his original style were recognized by famous artists and art critics like Gaganendranath Tagore, Ananda Coomaraswamy and O.C.Ganguli.
  • The paintings of Nandalal Bose are considered among India's best modern paintings by many critics.
  • Was a noted Indian painter.

Biography

Nandalal Bose
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Nandlal Bose was born in December 1882 in Bihar. A protégé of Havell and Abanindranath, he is today regarded as one of the most prominent artists of the modern India. Nandlal Bose attended Calcutta Government College of Art between 1905 and 1910. He joined Abanindranath's Art School, where he was guided, initially, by Harinarayan Basu and Iswari Prasad and later on, by Abanindranath himself. As per the biography and life history of Nandlal Bose, he remained under the tutelage of Abanindranath for the next five years.

Nandlal Bose received great support from Sister Nivedita. He was also one of the leading lights of the renaissance of art in India. When Rabindranath Tagore founded the Kala Bhavan in Santiniketan, he invited Nand Lal to join it. Nandlal Bose served as the principal at Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan between 1922 and 1951. He also received an offer from Government Art School to join as one of the staff member. However, he declined the same and instead, started helping Abanindranath in preparing a catalogue of the works of art in his house. Nandlal Bose breathed his last on 16th April 1966. The style of Nandlal's paintings reflects the historic artistic tradition as well as the contemporary practices of Indian art form.

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