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Amrita Sher-Gil

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Amrita Sher-Gil was a Hungarian-Indian painter regarded as one of the most important pioneers of modern Indian art. Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, she absorbed European modernist technique before returning to India in the 1930s, where she turned to depicting Indian village life, particularly the lives of women, in a style that fused Post-Impressionist color and form with subjects and compositional cues drawn from Indian miniature painting and the Ajanta cave murals. Works such as Bride's Toilet and Three Girls are considered landmark achievements in the development of a distinctly modern Indian pictorial language, and Sher-Gil, who died at twenty-eight, is now recognized by the Indian government as a national art treasure.

Facts
Birth Year
1913 1
Death Year
1941 1
Birth Date
1913-01-30 1
Death Date
1941-12-05 1
Birthplace
Budapest 1
Death Place
Lahore 1
Training
Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, under Pierre Vaillent and Lucien Simon 1
Classification
Gender
Female 1
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Practices

Painting, Art Forms
Source Wikipedia: Amrita Sher-Gil
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Nationality

British Raj

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Originated In

Budapest

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Source Wikidata: Amrita Sher-Gil
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1. Wikipedia: Amrita Sher-Gil
  • Early life, birth sentence (birth year)
    Amrita Sher-Gil was born Dalma-Amrita on 30 January 1913, at 4 Szilágyi Dezső square, Budapest, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
  • Early life, birth sentence (birth date)
    Amrita Sher-Gil was born Dalma-Amrita on 30 January 1913, at 4 Szilágyi Dezső square, Budapest, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
  • Early life, birth sentence (birthplace)
    Amrita Sher-Gil was born Dalma-Amrita on 30 January 1913, at 4 Szilágyi Dezső square, Budapest, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
  • Illness and death section (death year)
    She later died around midnight on 5 December 1941
  • Illness and death section (death date)
    She later died around midnight on 5 December 1941
  • Infobox: death_date
    December 5, 1941
  • Early life, Paris studies
    At sixteen, Sher-Gil sailed to Europe with her mother to train as a painter in Paris, first at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière under Pierre Vaillent and Lucien Simon
  • Infobox: training
    Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Grande Chaumière, École des Beaux-Arts (1930-1934)
  • Practices: Painting, Lead section
    Amrita Sher-Gil (30 January 1913 - 5 December 1941) was a Hungarian-Indian painter. She has been called "one of the greatest avant-garde women artists of the early 20th century" and a pioneer in modern Indian art.
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