In this article we are going to give information about Amrita Sher-Gil . She was called as one if the greatest avant garde women artists of the 20th century. A Pioneer in modern Indian art , she started formal lessons just at the age of eight.
She first gained recognition at the age of 19, for her oil painting Young Girls ,in 1932. Sher-Gil depicted everyday life of the people in her paintings.
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1 Amrita Sher-Gil (30 January 1913 – 5 December 1941) was a Hungarian-Indian painter.
3 Her father was an Indian and her mother was a Hungarian.
4Her fathers name was Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Majithia and her mothers name was Marie Antoinette Gottesmann.
5 Her father was a Sikh aristocrat, a scholar of Sanskrit and Persian.
6 Her mother, Marie Antoniette Gottesmann was a Hungarian Jewish Opera Singer, who belonged to an affluent Bourgeois family
7 Her paintings are one of the most expensive ones among all the women Indian painters.
8 She has been called “one of the greatest avant-garde women artists of the early 20th century” and a pioneer in modern Indian art.
9 She has been nicknamed as the ‘Indian Frida Kahlo.’
10 At the age of 16, she travelled to Europe to learn painting, first at Académie de la Grande Chaumière later at the Ecole des Beaux- Arts.
11 When she was a young girl she would paint the servants in her house, and get them to model for her.
12 . In 1921, her family moved to Summer Hill , Shimla India, and Sher-Gil soon began learning piano and violin.
13 In 1932 , her oil painting ‘Young Girls ‘ won her accolades, including a gold medal and election as an Associate of the Grand Salon in Paris.
14 India Post released a stamp of her painting ‘Hill Women’ in the year 1978.
15 There is a road named after the painter in Lutyen’s Delhi, known as the Amrita Shergil Marg.
Amrita Sher-Gil Biography
| Born | 30 January 1913 |
| Place of Birth | Budapest , Hungary |
| Occupation | Painter , Artist |
| Sister | Younger sister Indira Sundaram |
| Fathers Name | Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Majithia |
| Mothers Name | Marie Antoinette Gottesmann, |
She was married to Victor Egan who was also a doctor by profession. In 1921, she took painting lessons in the city of Florence, Italy.
After having spent 8 years of her life in Europe in 1921, she came to India and started living in Shimla.
After coming to India, Amrita Sher-gil started painting formally. In her paintings included the domestic images of women of India depicted with very psychological and subtle expressions. Her painting style had a wonderful combination of colours , full of bright colours that brought Indian culture alive on canvas. Also Indian rural life reflected in her paintbrush.
Her paintings are preserved in Delhi’s ‘National Gallery’ as a heritage. An exhibition held in Paris where ‘Young Girls’ one of her paintings reached the ‘Association of the Grand Salon’. The first Asian painter to reach here , she was also the youngest woman painter to achieve this distinction.
She died on 5th December 1941 at the age of just 28.
Her paintings included ‘Brahmacharis’, ‘Bride’s Toilet’,‘South Indian Villagers Going to Market’, ‘Siesta’, ‘Village Scene’. ‘In the Ladies’ Enclosure’, ‘The Bride’, ‘Tahitian’, ‘Red Brick House’ and ‘Hill Scene’.
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