Hemen Mazumdar: The last romantic
Hemendranath Mazumdar, popularly referred to as Hemen Mazumdar, was born 1894 in Gachihata village of Mymensingh district, which is currently part of Bangladesh. Coming from a relatively wealthy landowning family, at the age of sixteen, Hemen dropped out of school and ran away to Calcutta to pursue...
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sg-smu-ink.lkcsb_research-70842019-02-11T02:17:54Z Hemen Mazumdar: The last romantic CORNI, Caterina KUMAR, Nirmalya Hemendranath Mazumdar, popularly referred to as Hemen Mazumdar, was born 1894 in Gachihata village of Mymensingh district, which is currently part of Bangladesh. Coming from a relatively wealthy landowning family, at the age of sixteen, Hemen dropped out of school and ran away to Calcutta to pursue his passion for painting. He enrolled at the Government College of Art in 1911, but left in 1912 for another institution, Jubilee Art Academy. By 1915, he left Jubilee Art Academy to start earning his living through portrait painting. Abanindranath Tagore’s coterie had banished any artist following the western academic approach. In response, in 1919, Hemen Mazumdar with Atul Bose and Jamini Roy, established The Indian Academy of Fine Arts. The 1920s helped establish Hemen Mazumdar as a major Indian artist with a national reputation. 2019-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6085 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7084/viewcontent/Hemen_Mazumdar_Last_Romantic_Corni_Kumar.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Indian artist Hemen Mazumdar Indian Academy of Fine Arts portraits Asian Studies Fine Arts |
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Hemendranath Mazumdar, popularly referred to as Hemen Mazumdar, was born 1894 in Gachihata village of Mymensingh district, which is currently part of Bangladesh. Coming from a relatively wealthy landowning family, at the age of sixteen, Hemen dropped out of school and ran away to Calcutta to pursue his passion for painting. He enrolled at the Government College of Art in 1911, but left in 1912 for another institution, Jubilee Art Academy. By 1915, he left Jubilee Art Academy to start earning his living through portrait painting. Abanindranath Tagore’s coterie had banished any artist following the western academic approach. In response, in 1919, Hemen Mazumdar with Atul Bose and Jamini Roy, established The Indian Academy of Fine Arts. The 1920s helped establish Hemen Mazumdar as a major Indian artist with a national reputation. |
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