Nirode Mazumdar
Nirode Mazumdar was born in Kolkata, West Bengal, India on May 11th, 1916 and is the Indian Painter. At the age of 66, Nirode Mazumdar biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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In 1946 Nirode Mazumdar had his first one-man show in Calcutta. In 1949, he had a one-man show at Paris, which was presented by the art critic and poet Stanislas Fumet. In the same year 1949, he has an opportunity to visit Holland and to learn, in Utrecht, the technique of engraving which later on would have a bearing on his art. He left France for England in 1951 and there, he took part in exhibitions organized by the Indian High Commission in London, group shows, held at the India House and worked for some time as a curator of the art gallery there. It is actually in London where his new trend of thought takes shape.
In 1955, he returned to France. Back in Paris, Nirode continued his pictorial research, at the same time, plunging into the oriental philosophies, mythologies, his cultural heritage, and, in 1957, exhibits a series of oil paintings "Images Ecloses" (Blooming Images) in his Paris studio, the fruit of his research and study. These works were presented by Jeannine Auboyer, curator of the Guimet Museum(National museum of Asiatic Arts) Paris, at the time. This series of paintings was a turning point in his career. The highly original series of 23 paintings marked a decisive departure from the artist's past works. With it Nirode Mazumdar found what he was looking for all these years. The exhibition gave a sense of fulfillment and direction. By the time he came into his own, he had rejected Paris and her themes. He bade a total goodbye to the past by tearing up all his old paintings, many of which had been highly praised both in Paris and in London. After spending 11 years in Europe, especially in Paris, he returned to Calcutta in 1958. With him came his wife Marguerite, and their children Oditi Gallin-Mazumdar and Chittrovanu Mazumdar. And he left behind numerous close friends that included, Georges Braque, Constantin Brâncuși, Jean Cocteau, André Breton, Jean Genet and others.
From this time onwards and on his return to Calcutta, Nirode Mazumdar kept on working, searching, researching in pictorial, aesthetic, as well as philosophical domains. He painted large canvasses. Gradually, he moved towards Tantric themes in his work, and often explored a single concept over a series of paintings. His work remained rooted in the pictorial tradition of Bengal, which he harmonized with European modernism.