Dhiraj Choudhury

Dhiraj Choudhury (1 April 1936 – 1 June 2018) was an Indian painter. He had more than eighty exhibitions, among them sixteen were international painting exhibitions.[1][2]

Dhiraj Choudhury
Born
Dhiraj Chowdhury

(1926-04-01)1 April 1926
Brahmanbaria District, British India
(now Bangladesh)
Died1 June 2018(2018-06-01) (aged 82)
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
NationalityIndian
Known forPainting
drawing
Spouse(s)Leena Chowdhury

Profile

Choudhury was born in 1936 in Bengal, at the time part of British India and took up painting as a budding artist from his childhood. Choudhury taught at the College of Art, New Delhi, during 1961–66.[3]

He had held about 80 solo exhibitions abroad, and in the 1970s his works were exhibited in Geneva with those of Salvadore Dali and Joan Miro.[4]

Artistry

Choudhury referred to himself as an "aggressive painter" of "life full of misery". He often expressed his protests against like dowry system, corruption and social inequalities, as well as the pain of Partition, through his paintings.[5]

Death

Choudhury died on 1 June 2018, at the age of 82.

References
  1. Canvas of hope in tiger country The Statesman, New Delhi : 7 April 2018
  2. Kumar, Divya (31 July 2011). "Art of the matter". The Hindu. New Delhi. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  3. Umachandran, Shalini (28 July 2011). "Dhiraj Choudhury: Celebrating 75 yrs in brush strokes". The Times of India. New Delhi. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  4. https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIKM%2F2018%2F06%2F02&entity=Ar00808&sk=0035B024&mode=text
  5. DHIRAJ CHOUDHURY 1936-2018, Artist-activist passes away The Times of India, Kolkata : 2 June 2018
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